HIGH FLYER - UPPER INTERMEDIATE - STUDENTS' BOOK - UNIT 8

Rezolvarea exercitiilor de la  UNIT 8 din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa a VIII-a intitulat HIGH FLYER - UPPER INTERMEDIATE, Students’ Book, Editura Longman, Autori Ana Acevedo si Marisol Gower, Editia 1999

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

UNIT 8 PUZZLING PUZZLES

READING

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

Ex.2 / page 34

1 e  2 c  3 a   4 d  5 b

 

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

Ex.3 / page 35

1. The fact that the shape of eggs makes them very resistant. (M. Sauvant had been testing eggs by dropping them on the floor.)
2. Because they didn’t think his machine would work. They were afraid he would have an accident.
3. By having his friends push him off a 25 meter cliff.
4. Because the machine was totally wrecked.
5. He was a mad inventor (for example).

GRAMMAR

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

Ex.4 / page 35

1. had been working, had been drawing
2. had been flying, announced
3. had been asking, gave
4. had not been sending
5. had been playing, was, had been dying

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

Ex.6 / page 35

2. a leather jacket

3. chocolate ice cream

4. a dog trainer

5. the bedroom window

6. the school library

7. shoelaces

8. a taxi driver

9. a cotton shirt

LISTENING

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

Ex.8 / page 36

a). 1. It’s an orangutan’s hair.

2. It’s Madonna’s beauty spot/ part of Madonna’s face.

3. They’re the bristles of a hairbrush.

4. It’s part of a shoe/ shoelace.

b). 1. They are in a moving car.

2. No, she doesn’t. She says she gets car sick.

3. He thinks she is making excuses because she can’t do puzzles.

4. Sarah is.

5. Probably because Sarah got all the answers and he didn’t get any. He’s probably making excuses.

GRAMMAR

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

Ex.9 / page 36

2. … in my father’s car.

3. … my pen friend’s letters.

4. … back of the book.

5. The windows of the house…

6. My friend’s hair … a lion’s mane.

7. … front of the bus.

8. my cousins’ house

9. Mr and Mrs Jones’s cat …

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

Ex.10 / page 37

2. An uncle of hers plays in a band.

3. A friend of my mother’s has invented a new game.

4. Tapping her foot on the floor is a little habit of hers.

5. A cousin of ours is moving to another country.

6. He’s wearing an old suit of his father’s to the party.

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

Ex.11 / page 35

It’s Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hair and forehead. They are Kevin Costner’s eyes. It’s Cindy Crawford’s nose. It’s Sylvester Stallone’s mouth. It’s Nicole Kidman’s chin.

VISION OF DANGER – Episode 3

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

Ex.1

1. They met at Piccadilly Circus. They are now in Primrose Hill Park.

Ex.2

1. None – she’s an only child.

2. Both of them are considered strange by other people and therefore have few friends.

3. They hear a song, which they think is by stone.

4. Because of her powers of premonition.

Vocabulary

1. Orpheus

2. strange

3. frowning

4. nodding

5. pale

Horizontal word: Stone