GOING FOR GOLD - UPPER INTERMEDIATE - UNIT 8

Rezolvarea exercitiilor de la Unit 8: LAND OF THE PHARAOHS din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa a IX-a intitulat GOING FOR GOLD - UPPER INTERMEDIATE - COURSEBOOK, Editura Longman, Autori Richard Acklam si Araminta Crace, Editia 2011

GOING FOR GOLD - Coursebook 
Unit 8: LAND OF THE PHARAOHS

READING

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 74

1. e
2. h
3. f
4. c
5. b
6. d
7. g
8. a

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 3 / page 74

1. Perhaps the most famous pyramids are in Egypt. Others can be found in several places around the world, including Sudan and Central America.
2. The Egyptian and Sudanese pyramids were built as tombs for rulers. The Central American pyramids were temples or places of sacrifice.

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 5 / page 75

1. H
2. A
3. G
4. B
5. E
6. D

7. C
8. F

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 6 / page 75

1. Giza is where the most famous Egyptian pyramids are.
2. The sun's rays are what the sides of pyramids were built to represent.
3. An old Arab proverb reminds us how old the pyramids are.
4. 2,300,000 is the number of blocks of limestone the Great Pyramid is made out of.
5. The passages insite the pyramids were sealed to stop robbers.
6. Every pyramid had been robbed by 1000 BC.
7. The shape of modern skyscrapers often reflects the shape of the pyramids.

GRAMMAR 1

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 1 / page 76

1. O pyramids have fascinated O people for O thousands of years.
2. The most famous of them are the three at O Giza. 
3. Each pyramid is a tomb, built by a pharaon.
4. Later the sun became O more important than the stars in the Egyptian religion.
5. They have stood by the River Nile for more than 4,500 years.
6. Four and a half thousand years later a different kind of pyramid is appearing.

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 76

1. 0
2. a
3. a
4. a
5. the
6. The
7. 0
8. 0
9. the
10. the 
11. The
12. a
13. a

VOCABULARY 1

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 1 / page 77

1. a
2. c
3. b
4. a
5. b
6. c

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 77

1. Tall means "having greater than average height". 
Tall is often used to refer to people, buildings, etc.
High means "when there is a long distance between the bottom and the top." 
High is used when talking about prices, temperatures, etc.
2. Low means "not high, or not far above the ground." It also means "small, or smaller than the usual amount or value."
Short means "not long in distance, time or length."
3. Narrow means "measuring only a short distance from one side to the other". It often refers to roads, rivers, etc.
Thin means "there is very little between the opposite suurfaces". It can refer to clothes, the body, etc.
The opposite of wide is narrow.
4. No, deep and shallow can also refer to feelings, thoughts and beliefs.

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex  3 / page 77

1. wide
2. thin
3. tall
4. high
5. short
6. narrow
7. low

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 4 / page 78

1. noun 
2. noun
3. verb
4. noun
5. verb
6. verb

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 5 / page 78

1. length
2. height
3. lowered
4. depth
5. widen
6. shorten

LISTENING

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 1 / page 78

1. They died sudden and early deaths
2. Two

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 78

1. Nobody had been inside Tutankhamun's tomb for 3,000 years. 
2. Carnarvon died before his son reached the hotel.
3. Arthur Mace died very suddenly.
4. Within ten years nearly all the members of the original expedition had died.
5. The Chief Technical Officer's leg was seriously hurt in a car accident.
6. The Engineer had a number of heart attacks before he died.
7. One explanation Philip Vandenberg gives for the Curse involves visitor from outer space.

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 3 / page 78

1. true
2. false
3. true
4. true
5. false
6. true
7. false

GRAMMAR 2

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 1 / page 79

1. The Red Sea, where you can swim in clear crystal water ... (non-defining)
2. This is also the place where you can explore ... (defining)
3. "Red Sea Drivers", which was established in 1984 ...(non-defining)
4. There are also options for advanced divers who want to take ...(defining)

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 79

1. That's the club where I first met Jack
4. Where are the earrings which I lent you last night?
5. York, where I lived as a child, is a lovely city.

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 3 / page 79

1.
1. where
2. which
3. who
4. whose

2.
1. where
2. when
3. whose
4. which
5. who 

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
Watch Out / page 79

Sentence 3 does not use that correctly because that is not used in non-defining relative clauses.

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 4 / page 80

1. false The singer whose guitar is next to him has short black hair.
2. true
3. false Both screens are working.
4. true
5. false The young woman who is doing a handstand is at the front of the stage.

SPEAKING

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 1 / page 80

They talk about travel and the future.

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 80

1. Well, that's quite difficult to answer.
2. I'm not really sure, but my parents ...
3. Hmmm, it's not very easy to say...


USE OF ENGLISH

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 1 / page 80

a). 

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 80

2. adjective - imaginative
3. adjective - technological
4. noun - ability
5. adjective - unbelievable
6. adjective - powerful
7. noun - leader
8. noun - honour
9. noun - arrival
10. adjective - hopeless
11. noun - discovery

 READING 2

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 81

1. Picture D
2. Picture A
3. Picture C
4. Picture B

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 4 / page 82

1. the Camel
2. the Horse, the Dog and the Ox
3. the Man
4. the Djinn
5. the Djinn
6. the Camel
 7. the Camel

VOCABULARY 2

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 1 / page 82

1. to get away with
2. to catch up with
3. to work out
4. to get down to
5. to make up
6. to make out
7. to carry on
8. to put up with

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 83

1. d
2. f
3. b
4. a
5. c
6. h
7. e
8. g


WRITING

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 1 / page 83

1. Nevertheless is not a linker of consequence. So is less formal than as a result, consequently and therefore.