OUTCOMES - UPPER-INTEMEDIATE - UNIT 1

Rezolvarea exercitiilor din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa IX intitulat OUTCOMES UPPER-INTERMEDIATE, Editura Heinle Cengage Learning, Autori Hugh Dellar, Andrew Walkley, Editia 2011

OUTCOMES UPPER-INTERMEDIATE

UNIT 1: ENTERTAINMENT

Grammar Habits

Step 1

1.      go shopping, go to cinema, go clubbing something

2.    listen to music on his mp3 player

3.    going to the theatre

4.    go swimming

5.     watch TV

6.    play sports

7.     go to the cinema

8.    play computer games

Step 2

Speaker 1: Do you go out much?

Speaker 2: Do you listen to music much?

Speaker 3: Do you go to the theatre much?

Speaker 4: Do you go swimming much?

Speaker 5: Do you watch TV much?

Speaker 6: Do you play sports much?

Speaker 7: Do you go to the cinema much?

Speaker 8: Do you play video games much?

Vocabulary

Step 2

1.      commercial

2.    catchy

3.    hilarious

4.    dull

5.     weird

6.    over-the-top

7.     gripping

8.    disturbing

9.    uplifting

10.      awful

Developing conversations

Step 2

1.      f = a bit more modern

2.    a = I’m not that keen on

3.    c = I’m not that keen on

4.    e = It didn’t really do anything for me

5.     d = I’m not that keen on

6.    b = I’m not really interested

7.     h = a bit too puppy

8.    g = a bit dull, a bit boring

Listening

Step 1

Similar = they both like films, both like action films, although different ones

Different = second speaker goes to the cinema most weeks, the first speaker waits for the DVD, first speaker didn’t like Old Boy and the second speaker really liked it.

Step 2

1.      Speaker A: not that often, Speaker B: most weeks.

2.    Speaker A: all sorts, action films, Speaker B: action films, comedies, foreign films, anything.

3.    Speaker A: Old Boy, Speaker B: Gold Diggers.

4.    Speaker A: over-the-top, disgusting, didn’t like the plot, Speaker B: good but heavy, quite disturbing.

Vocabulary – Talking about pictures

Step 1

Statements 1, 6, 8, 9

Step 3

1.      well

2.    as if/ like

3.    impression, look

4.    both

5.     must, like

6.    seems

Listening

Step 2

1. 1971
2. Mr & Mrs Clark and Percy (the cat)
3. David Hockney’s painting is loosely based on the one by Jan van Eyck although the positions are reserved
4. The lilies represent female purity and the cat symbolizes infidelity and jealousy: Mr Clark had frequent affairs before and during their five-year marriage
5. Mr Clark fell into bankruptcy and addiction. His life ended tragically when he was murdered by an ex-lover in 1996. mrs Clark continued to be one of Hockney’s regular models for years
6. life-like, abstract, ambiguous, intimate

Grammar – Adjectives and adverbs

Step 2

1. fairly
2. pointedly
3. ambiguous
4. shortly
5. loosely
6. unfortunately/ frequent/ eventual/ apparent
7. sadly/ tragically

Reading – Part 1

Step 2

1. They are all based around just seven basic plots, each featuring the same character types and events over and over again
2. There’s a community threatened by a monster and a hero to save them. The hero prepares to meet the monster and has help with a special weapon to defeat the monster. But, when the hero meets the monster they realise it’s more of a challenge. They fight, have problems and are trapped; however the hero makes an amazing escape. Finally, the hero manages to kill the monster
3. Students’ own answers

Reading – Part 2

Step 3

1. transported
2. spiral
3. revenge
4. separated
5. bullied
6. temptation