GOING FOR GOLD UPPER INTERMEDIATE - LANGUAGE MAXIMISER - UNIT 8

Rezolvarea exercitiilor de la Unit 8 din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa a IX-a intitulat GOING FOR GOLD - UPPER INTERMEDIATE - LANGUAGE MAXIMISER, Editura Longman, Autori Richard Acklam si Araminta Crace, Editia 2003

GOING FOR GOLD - LANGUAGE MAXIMISER

Unit 8

Grammar 1

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1. 3c

2. 3a

3. 1a

4. 3b

5. 3a

6. 2a

7. 3b

8. 2c

9. 3a

10. 1b

11. 3a

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1. 0

2. 0

3. the

4. 0

5. 0

6. 0

7. the

8. 0

9. a

10. 0

11. the

12. a

13. 0

14. a

15. 0

16. 0

17.0

18.0

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Dear Francesca,

We’re having a fantastic time here in the Mexico. We’ve visited some amazing places like the Mexico City and the Palenque, where there are the pyramids just like the ones near the Cairo. The people are really nice here and they don’t laugh when I try to speak to them in the Spanish! Last night there was a special party with a fantastic food and a wonderful music. By the time we got to bed the sun had already come up!

See you when I come back!

Love,

Adam

Vocabulary 1

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1. B

2. A

3. A

4. B

5. A

6. A

7. B

8. B

9. B 

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1. height

2. 452

3. tall

4. 609.6

5. high

6. 8

7.  far

8. 6.5

9. width

10. 325

11. wider

12. 4

Grammar 2

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Egypt is the country that people usually associate with pyramids but there are pyramids in many other places around the world. One of these places is the island of Tenerife, which is in the Canary Islands. There are six step pyramids near the town of Guimar in the south of the island. Nevertheless, these pyramids, which are made of black volcanic stone, are very controversial. Many scientists believe the structures, which were only discovered fairly recently, are simple natural stone terraces and not a mysterious wonder of ancient times. Thor Heyerdahl, the famous Norwegian researcher, who spent the last years of his life on Tenerife, claimed the pyramids were, in fact, made by humans who had used building techniques that were similar to those used to build pyramids in Mexico, Peru and ancient Mesopotamia.

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1. Do you want to see the photos which/ that I took on my trip to Egypt?

2. Did you take them with the camera that you bought in September when we had the party for Stefano?

3. These are mainly of Cairo, which has to be one of the noisiest and most crowded cities in the world.

4. Cairo’s the place where they have that famous museum, isn’t it?

5. The person who/that is standing next to me in this photograph is Elena.

6. She’s the girl whose sister used to go out with Stefano.

7. He’s from Cyprus, where we went on holiday last year.

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1. which

2. whose

3. who

4. which/ that

5. when

6. which

7. which/ that

8. where 

Vocabulary 2

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1. Clara studied on Sunday afternoon to make up for not doing much work during the week.

2. He was so fast that none of the other runners could catch up with him.

3. People with good memories can often get away with not studying very much.

4. I didn’t get down to work until about ten thirty.

5. She’s always making out that she doesn’t care what anyone else thinks, but I know she does really.

6. Why don’t you carry on chopping the onions while I boil the potatoes?

7. Did you manage to work out why your computer wouldn’t start?

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1. away with

2. down to

3. carry on

4. made out

5. work out

6. caught up with

7. made up for

8. put up with

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1. made up for

2. put up with

3. get away with

4. make out

5. carried on

6. get on with

7. catch up

8. worked out

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1. behind

2. give up

3. can’t stand

4. fooling around

5. pay off  

Speaking

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The speaker describes photographs a and b.

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Yes, he does.

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1. Inside a museum

2. only 7 or 8

3. overcoats and scarves

4. summer clothes and hats

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1. both show

2. are looking

3. could

4. are standing

5. can see

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1. whereas

2. On the other hand

3. Another difference

4. but

Tapescript:

Both these photographs show people looking at the objects from ancient world, but they are different in several ways. In the first picture we can see people in a museum somewhere in Europe, whereas in the second photograph the people are wearing warm clothes. In the second picture, on the other hand, it is very hot so they are wearing summer clothes and hats. Another difference between the two photographs is that in the first one there are only about seven or eight people but in the second one it is quite crowded.

Writing

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1. so

2. Consequently

3. so

4. as a result

5. therefore

6. so

7.  Therefore

8. Consequently

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Raspuns posibil:

In the beginning of time, the Rabbit was a great hunter. One day, he went hunting in the forest as usual, but the forest was empty. ‘Someone has hunted all the animals already,‘ said Rabbit. So he went home with no meat and, as a result, he had only grass to eat for supper.

Rabbit decided to catch the hunter and, therefore, he put a magic net in the forest. The next morning he got up and looked in the net. He saw a very bright light and heard some loud angry shouts.

Rabbit realized that he had caught the sun! ‘I will never hunt again!’ cried the Rabbit. ‘You must release the sun,’ said the other animals, ‘or it will be dark forever.’

Consequently, Rabbit went back to the net and released the sun. As the sun rose into the sky, it burnt the Rabbit’s shoulders. And this is why the Rabbit now has brown shoulders, and is not a hunter, but eats only grass.