Rezolvarea exercitiilor de la UNIT 9
din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa XI intitulat ADVANCED GOLD, Editura Longman,
Autori Sally Burgess si Richard Acklam, Editia 2001
UNIT
9: Where there’s a will …
Reading
Page 104
Exercise
1
Foster, Curie and Branson all share a powerful
will to succeed, often against very high odds.
They had an achievement publicly recognised.
Exercise
2
1. (lines 13-17)
2. (line 5)
3. (lines 27-37)
4. (lines 40-45 and 53-56)
5. is not mentioned
Exercise
4
1. F. Para F: there’s a big difference…
Base
text: these differences
2. C. Base text: the motivation comes from some adverse life events in early childhood …
3. G. Base text: two main types of motivation …
4. E. Base text: It could be a socialization thing …
5. B. Base text: what you need to do to be successful is to focus on the outcome of what
you want and how that will affect your life …
6. A. Para A: Other ways …
Base
text: Use anything that works, no matter
how strange.
Exercise
5
1. Because they experienced adverse
circumstances as children.
2. ‘Task motivation’ (the motivation to play
well and improve) and ‘achievement motivation’ (motivation to win).
3. H e means that people learn a motivational
style through their parents’ reactions to their performance.
4. The ideas are: i) improving your diet, ii)
doing more exercise, iii) taking extra training; iv) burning energizing oils;
v) analyzing your motives to work out whether or not you really want to do the
thing; vi) reading self-help books.
Exercise
7
2. motivate
3. psychological
4. rely
5. unsuccessful
6. powerless
7. failed
8. developments
9. improvement
10. determined
11. energetic
12. Theoretically
Watch
out! few
Negative: 1 b
2 a
Positive: 1 a
2 b
Exercise
8
3. psychology n, psychologist n
4. unreliable adj, reliance n, reliably
adv, reliability n
5. (un)successfully adv, success n, succeed v, unsuccessful adj
6. powerful(ly) adj(adv)
7. failing n,
failure n, failed adj
8. underdeveloped adj, developing adj
9. improved adj/past
participle
10. determination n
11. energetically adv, energy n
12. theorise v,
theorist/ theoretician n
Vocabulary:
expressions with make/ get/ keep/ gain/ resolve Page 107
Exercise
1
1
make
|
get
|
keep
|
a
difference
someone feel
…. something
an impression
|
into
trouble
even with…
… someone
a promotion
|
a
resolution
your word
on at someone
|
2
gain
|
resolve
|
control
an advantage
experience
|
a
problem
to leave
your doubts
|
Exercise
2
1. You made
a very good impression on my
mother. She thinks you’re great!
2. She gained
a lot of useful experience through
working for her uncle and now she’d like to start up her own business.
3. They resolved
the problem of where to send their
son to school by letting him choose.
4. His teacher told him he would get into serious trouble if he continued to hang around with that group of boys.
5. She made
me feel terribly guilty when she said how upset she was that I hadn’t been
in touch.
6. She was so unhappy in her job that she resolved to leave by the end of the
year.
7. I think we can gain a definite advantage
over the competition if we launch our new model in January.
8. You can never believe Jim when he promises to
do something. He just seems unable to keep
his word.
9. I can’t believe that Fiona humiliated me like
that. I’ll get even with her if it’s
the last thing I do.
10. I wish my boss wouldn’t keep on at me all the time to finish the report. It doesn’t have to
be done until the end of the month.
11. He’s managed to keep his resolution to stop smoking for six weeks now.
12. My sister has just got a promotion. Now, she’s head of her department.
13. If he gains
control of any more newspapers, he will have a virtual monopoly of the
media.
14. Passing her exams has made an amazing difference to her levels of
self-confidence!
Grammar
plus: emphasis Page 108
Exercise
1
She told him that she was having a ‘Roman toga’
party. He had a costume specially made, but when he arrived he discovered that
he was the only one in fancy dress.
Exercise
2
1. what I really like about her
2. what Amanda did was to tell
3. what happened was that he arrived
Exercise
3
1. It places greater emphasis on the information
in the last part of the scene.
2. whole sentence = c) the verb = b) the thing = a)
3. whole sentence = 3 the verb = 2 the thing = 1
Exercise
4
1. What she did was to learn all the irregular
verbs off by heart.
2. What annoys me most is people who are always
late.
3. What happened was that he failed all his
exams at school and that made him determined to be successful in business.
4. What she did was to go on a management course
at the end of last year.
5. What I’d really like to have a new computer.
6. What happened was that she decided finally to
ask her boss for promotion, but the company went bust and she lost her job.
7. What I did was to start going swimming first
thing in the morning.
8. What happened was that she went and told her
boss about how she felt.
Exercise
5
1. What she did
was to learn all the irregular verbs off by heart.
2. What annoys
me most is people who are always late.
3. What happened
was that he failed all his exams at school and that made him determined
to be successful in business.
4. What she did was to go on a management course at the end of last year.
5. What I’d really
like to have a new computer.
6. What happened
was that she decided finally to ask her boss
for promotion, but the company went bust and she lost her job.
7. What I did
was to start going swimming first thing in the morning.
8. What happened
was that she went and told her boss about how she felt.
Exercise
6
What I particularly need to do to improve my
English is to read more novels and short
stories in English because that
would help me to improve both my reading and vocabulary.
I had a slightly strange experience a little
while ago. What happened was that I was
just thinking of an old friend of mine when he phoned all the way from Australia
What I value most about my best friend is her tremendous patience and kindness because
it’s not always easy to be kind and patience, after all.
What really annoys me is people who get pets for their children because
the children are often too young to look after them properly.
My friend Diana really surprised me the other
day. What she did was to order a
wonderful book for me via the Internet.
Speaking
Page 109
Exercise
2
Appearance
|
Contrast
|
Qualifier
|
seems
gives the impression
|
A good qualifier
|
Vocabulary:
leaisure activities Page 110
Exercise
1
1an oar
an easel a script a crash helmet lyrics
Exercise
2
scuba diving
photography singing riding
reading/writing
a wetsuit a piece of clothing,
usually made of rubber, that underwater swimmers wear to keep warm
an oar a long pole with a wide
flat blade at one end, used for rowing a boat
a snorkel a tube that allows a swimmer to breath air under water
flippers large flat rubber shoes
worn to help you swim faster
a mask something that covers all or part of your
face, to protect or hide it
a tripod a support with three
legs, used for a camera, telescope etc.
a lens the part of a camera
through which the light travels before it hits the film
an album a book in which you put
photographs, stamps etc
an easel a wooden frame that you
put a painting on while you paint it
a darkroom a dark room where film
is taken out of a camera and made into a photograph
a choir a group of people who
sing together, especially in a church or school
a
rehearsal
a period or a particular occasion when all the people in a play, concert etc
practice it before a public performance
a
conductor
someone who stands in front of a group of musicians or singers and directs
their playing or singing
to
sight-read
to play or sing written music when you look at it for the first time, without practicing
it first
a script the written form of a
speech, play, film etc
a bridle a set of leather bands
put around a horses head and used to control its movements
a whip a long thin piece of
rope or leather with a handle used for making animals move or punishing people
a crash
helmet
a very strong hat that covers your whole head, worn by racing car drivers,
motorcyclists etc.
reins long narrow bands of
leather that are fastened around a horse’s head in order to control it.
a saddle a seat made of leather
that is put on a horse’s back so that someone can ride it
a chapter one of the parts into
which a book is divided
lyrics the words of a song,
especially a modern popular song
a blurb a short description
giving information about a book, new product etc.
an author someone who writes
books
a
paperback
a book with a stiff paper cover
English
in use Page 110
Exercise
2
Children should be able to succeed (or fail) independently
of wealthy parents.
It is better to leave money to charity than to
one’s children.
Money doesn’t make you happy, but success can.
Exercise
5
entrepreneurs Including – entrepreneurs,
including
there – their
welth – wealth
british – British
thought – though
like minded – like-minded
dye – die
succesful – successful
milionaire – millionaire
legacies the – legacies. The
beleive – believe
There – ‘There
goverment – government
peoples – people’s
either’ Sykes – either ‘ Sykes
a link, between – a link between
definitaly - definitely
Grammar
check: tenses Page 111
Exercise
1
1. are
2. have lived/ lived
3. broke
4. was walking
5. had taken/ took
6. survived
7. had travelled
8. died
9. walked/ had walked
10. ‘reached
11. had lost
12. had gone
13. had drifted
14. are probably thinking
15. are
16. have conducted
Exercise
2
1. T
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. F
6. T
7. T
8. T
Writing:
report Page 112
Exercise
3
Linking words and phrases are a problem as links
between sentences and paragraphs are not explicitly marked.
Exercise
4
Paragraph 1: Introduction/ Purpose and method
Paragraph 2: Reasons for lack of success/
Contributing factors
Paragraph 3: Ideas for improvement/ Suggestions
for change
Paragraph 4: Conclusion/ Recommendations and
concluding remarks
Exercise
5
1. T
2. T
3. F
4. F
5. T
Exercise
6
1. consequently
2. both
3. first and foremost
4. both
5. moreover
Exercise
7
Addition
|
Consequence
|
Significance
|
As well as this
in addition to this
furthermore
moreover
|
So
consequently
clearly
therefore
as a result of this
|
The main priority is
most importantly
above all
first and foremost
|
Exercise
8
MOTIVATING
STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE A HIGH LEVEL OF ENGLISH
INTRODUCTION: This report is
intended to explain why so many students finish secondary school with a low
level of English. A number of students and teachers were interviewed and their
suggestions for change to the teaching methods are summarized.
REASONS
FOR LACK OF SUCCESS:
There seem to be a variety of reasons why our school students fail to reach a
good level of spoken English. The main problem seems to be the fact that
teachers appear to place so much significance on grammar. As a result of this, students appear to know a lot about grammar
but can’t actually speak with much confidence. In addition to this, what students complain about most is that
lessons are boring with too many grammar exercises and gapfills.
IDEAS FOR
IMPROVEMENT:
Having said this, what steps can be
taken to improve the situation? Above
all, what teachers need to do is to place more emphasis on developing
listening and speaking ability of students. Furthermore, they need to introduce greater variety into their
teaching and use more games, role plays; drama and so on. As well as this, they should use as much authentic material as
possible: newspaper, articles, songs, extracts from films etc. (This will also
help to increase student motivation.)
CONCLUSION: Clearly, there are serious problems with the way that English is
taught in our school at the moment, leading to low motivation on the part of
students. We believe that, most
importantly, it is the way English teachers are trained that needs to be
changed, with more emphasis on preparing students to use English in practical
situations rather than approaching it as another academic subject.
Exam
focus Page 114
1. D
2. A
3. F
4. G
5. H
6. H
7. E
8. D
9. F
10. A
Unit
9 Review Page 115
Exercise
1
1. gets an important promotion
2. √
3. √
4. get into trouble
5. √
6. √
7. get some experience
8. √
9. keep his word
10. makes me feel
Exercise
2
1. is
2. happened
3. did
4. that/how/when
5. how
6. was
Exercise
3
1. a darkroom
2. a tripod
3. an album
4. an oar
5. a snorkel
6. a choir
7. conductor
8. a saddle
9. a whip
10. the lyrics
Exercise
4
1. as
2. was
3. by
4. who
5. Although/ Though
6. has
7. with
8. been
9. other
10. what
11. told
12. for
13. the
14. of
15. on
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