Rezolvarea exercitiilor de la UNIT 6
din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa XI intitulat ADVANCED GOLD, Editura Longman,
Autori Sally Burgess si Richard Acklam, Editia 2001
UNIT
6: The sporting life
Listening
Page 68
Exercise
2
There will be new sports, especially for
wealthier people. sports stars will earn even more and they will have the same
status as film and music stars. Existing records will be maintained but they
will measure times in thousandths of a second.
Exercise
3
1. long history
2. urban areas
3. basketball
4. baseball
5. Bouncy Boxing
6. football
7. fewer performances
8. 10.2 seconds
9. 9 seconds
Grammar
plus: future (advanced features) Page 69
Exercise
1
3. to say something will be completed at a
particular time in the near future
6. to indicate that an event in the future has
been officially scheduled
Exercise
2
1. … I’m not about to start now!
2. I hope we will be sitting …
3. … is due to …
4. √
5. They won’t have been realised …
6. We were on the point of leaving …
7. √
8. √
Exercise
4
1. What will you be doing this weekend?
2. Where will you be going for your summer
holiday this year?
3. How will you be getting home today?
4. When will you be seeing X next?
5. How long will you be continuing to learn
English?
Exercise
5
DIFFERENCES
Open buffet – 7.15 p.m./ 7.50 p.m.
8.20 – Live band ‘Deluxe’/Live band ‘Delirious’
Disco – 9 p.m./ 9.30 p.m.
10 p.m. – Results of charity raffle/ ‘Coolest
couple’ award
11.30 p.m. – Karaoke competition/ Fireworks
Exercise
6
Student A: So, you hope you will have finished
university in one year’s time.
Student B: No. Actually, I hope I will have
finished in three months’ time. We’ve got exams then.
Exam
focus: Page 70
1. C (lines 61-62, 66-67 and 78-79)
2. B (lines 35-37)
3. B (lines 56-57)
4. A (lines 10-13)
5. D (lines 89-91)
6. B (lines 57-58)
7. D (lines 103-108)
8. B (lines 36, 37, 38 and 58)
9. B (lines 45-48)
10. D (lines 94-95)
11. C (lines 62-64 and 65-68)
12. B (lines 50-51)
13. C (lines 71-77)
14. A (lines 6-8)
Vocabulary:
competitive sports Page 72
Exercise
1
1. f
2. b
3. e
4. h
5. k
6. a
7. i
8. d
9. j
10.c
11. g
Exercise
3
1. gold and silver
2. javelin
long jump high jump triple jump
hammer
3. 100 metres
long jump shot put high jump
400 metres 110 metres
hurdles discus pole vault javelin
1500 metres
4. When Manchester United football team played
Bayern Munich in 1999, the German team were leading and seemed assured of a 1-0
victory until the last few minutes when the English team scored two goals in
quick succession.
5. a. Monica Seles. She was stabbed by a
spectator and had to retire from championship tennis for a period of two years.
She has also had a number of injuries that have prevented her playing for long
periods of time. Her father died, further preventing her from playing at her
usual standard.
b. Vance Armstrong, winner of the Tour de France
in 1999 and 2000. Armstrong recovered from cancer to return to cycling.
6. To withstand the rigours of training and
competing, athletes need to have a tremendous desire to win. Achieving success
is the compensation for all the suffering that has gone into their preparation
for an important sporting event.
Speaking
Page 72
Exercise
2
Making an
additional point:
on top of that
What’s more
Not only that
Indicating
lack of complete agreement:
Having said that though We do need to remember that
That’s all very well but
Exercise
2
1. cricket
golf skiing horseriding
2. They are glad that she enjoys sport so much
and have supported her efforts to continue to play football, though her mother
is less keen on her playing rugby because she fears she will get hurt.
Exercise
3
1. finishing position in London
2. height
3. age at which she started to play sport
4. position she played in football team
5. injury her mother fears she’ll get in rugby
6. number of triathlons she won last year
7. day she is involved in drama
8. one of the jobs she might like to do when she
grows up
Vocabulary:
language of gender Page 74
Exercise
1
Flight attendant headteacher police officer
spokesperson
firefighter salesperson
Exercise
2
1. meaning: the average man or the average
person alternatives: the man or woman in the street OR the average person
2. meaning: a man you can trust, who will do
what he has promised to do
Alternative: man or woman, according to the gender of the person being
spoken about
3. meaning: to behave and think independently
without worrying about what other people think
Alternatives: be your own person OR be true with yourself
4. meaning: if a group of people do something as
one man, they do it together
Alternative: as one person
5. meaning: to work at, use, or operate a
system, piece of equipment, etc.
Alternatives: staffed OR open
6. meaning: all humans considered as a group
Alternatives: humanity OR the human race OR humankind
7. meaning: used to say that people will not help
each other
Alternative: It’s everyone for themselves
8. meaning: a man who understands and expresses
the views and opinions of ordinary people
Alternative: man or woman, according to the gender of the person being
spoken about
Grammar
check: modifiers/ intensifiers Page 74
Exercise
1
1. really
2. both
3. extremely
4. really
5. both
6. both
7. both
8. both
9. extremely
Exercise
2
Gradable: vary rather
extremely fairly terribly
really quite pretty
Non-gradable: absolutely really
completely quite totally
Watch
Out! quite
1. rather
2. completely
English
in use: 75
Exercise
1
3
Exercise
2
1. adjective
2. noun
3. noun
4. adjective
5. noun
6. noun
7. verb (negative form)
8. adverb
Exercise
3
1. watered
2. excitement
3. celebration
4. disastrous
5. representatives
6. awareness
7. disregard(s)
8.
appallingly
Exercise
4
1. agility
2. basically
3. traditional
4. equivalents
5. lightness
6. permissible
7. effectiveness
8.protection
Writing:
formal/ informal note Page 76
Exercise
1
Valid advice: points 2 and 5
Exercise
2
SUGGESTED KEY WORDS
holiday
did not live up to original
advertisement write
Director
complain Read original advertisement
notes you write
part of letter from a friend you wrote to
write letter
200 words to Director telling how feel
note 50 words
friend telling what decided do
Exercise
3
The
purpose of the letter is to complain about the mismatch between the
advertisement and reality.
The
purpose of the note is to tell Tina you have decided to write a letter of
complaint.
4.
Hi,
Tina,
Thanks
for your letter. This is just a quick note to tell you that I’ve written to the
holiday company asking for a refund. I was interested to read about your
brother’s experience. Could you send me the details? If I get my money back I
might be able to go to the UK
Love,
Fabrice
English
in Use Page 78
Exercise
2
SUGGESTED SUMMARY OF MAIN POINTS
Rob has taken an active part in sports and has
improved his strength, stamina and ability. He was a significant member of the
school football and swimming teams and was captain of the football team for
three matches.
Nevertheless, he doesn’t always attend practice
sessions, and he arrives late and in the wrong clothes. He also loses his
temper when playing matches. If he doesn’t improve these things, he’ll be
dropped from the teams.
Exercise
4
1. keen/ involved
2. progress
3. a lot
4. win
5. made
6. few
7. play/work together
8. going/ turning up
9. regularly/ on time
10. wearing
11.
lost
12.
disqualified
13.
let
Unit
6 Review Page 79
Exercise
1
1. pulled
2. comeback
3. set
4. resume
5. setbacks
6. bronze
7. decathlon
8. glory
9. put
10. competitors
Exercise
2
1. … you won’t have seen …
2. … about to buy …
3. Will you be taking …
4. … due to kick off?
5. … people will be running …
6. … on the point …
7. … are to assemble …
Exercise
3
1. attendant
2. officers
3. person (man)
4. fighter
5. person
6. teacher
Exercise
4
1. they cut his pocket money by half
2. she can be a little impatient at times
3. they have not fulfilled their promises with
regard to education
4. he had injured his ankle and was in terrible
pain
5. but he offered to correct as much extra
written work as we were prepared to give him
Exercise
5
1. Every
2. as
3. Apart
4. to
5. the
6. which
7. lasted/ continued
8. when
9. of
10. him
11. would
12. by
13. to
14. made
15. at
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