GOING FOR GOLD - UPPER INTERMEDIATE - UNIT 13

Rezolvarea exercitiilor de la Unit 13: A LONG WAY FROM HOME 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 13: A LONG WAY FROM HOME

LISTENING

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 126

1, 3 and 5

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 3 / page 126

1. false
2. true
3. true
4. true
5. false
6. false
7. false
8. false
9. true
10. false

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 4 / page 126

a. 59 - his age
b. 211 - the number of countries he has visited
c. 10,000 - the number of kilometers he cycled around the Mediterranean
d. 8 hours - the number of hours he spent pushing his bicycle through a metre of water in morocco
e. 4 times - the number of times his bike has been stolen
f. 50 - the number of metres his bike was thrown downstream in a car accident

GRAMMAR 1

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 1 / page 127

1. He stops first in a. He listens first in b.
2. The remembering comes first in b. The locking comes first in a.
3. Sentence a is about trying to do something difficult. Sentence b is about experimenting to see if something works.
4. Sentence b is about changing an activity. Sentence a is about continuing an activity.

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 127

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

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 3 / page 127

1. seeing
2. to get
3. to ask
4. to explain
5. using
6. to get
7. whistling
8. working

VOCABULARY 1

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 1 / page 128

a. Thailand
b. Singapore
c. Australia

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 and 3 / page 128

Methods of travel: by air, by train, by bus, by boat, by tube, on foot, hitchhike
Describing places: beautiful, great fun, fast-moving, noisy, breathtaking, strange, polluted
Holiday activities: looking round the shops, going to botanical gardens, doing a bus tour, eating out, going windsurfing, sunbathing, doing some sightseeing, going clibbing
Documents/ forms: visa, international driving licence, passport, boarding pass, landing card

READING 1

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 3 / page 128

1. C
2. B
3. A
4. D
5. C
6. B
7. D

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 4 / page 128

2. organisation
3. excitement
4. offer
5. guarantee
6. weight
7. political
8. afraid
9.  safe
10. protection

LISTENING 2

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2/ page 130

1. mind
2. soul
3. late
4. people
5. make
6. know
7. question

WRITING

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 3 / page 130

1, 4, 7, 9

READING 2 

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 131

The first picture shows the Time Machine that the narrator built. The second picture shows the Time Machine after it has stopped some time in the future. The narrator can just make out a white marble object in the distance.

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 3 / page 131

1. Ten o'clock that day.
2. He left as if he was falling.
3. She seemed to shoot across the room like a rocket.
4. No, he found it extremely unpleasant.
5. It seemed as if it had been destroyed.
6. He pulled the lever too hard.
7. It was bad - hail was falling.
8. A colossal figure, carved in white stone.
9. How he would appear to the people he might meet.

GRAMMAR 2

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 1 / page 133

1. Future perfect (will + have + past participle)
2. Future continuous (will + be - ing)

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 133

1. have written
2. be thinking
3. have finished
4. be playing
5. have done
6. be sunbathing

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 3 / page 133

1. What will you be wearing tomorrow?
2. When will you be leaving home for school/ work tomorrow?
3. What will you be doing tomorrow night?
4. Where will you be going for your next holiday? 

VOCABULARY 2

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 1 / page 134

1. I could just manage to see a large, white buiding in the distance.
2. What do you think of our new teacher? I think he's very nice.
3. He told me he'd invented that story about being captain of his school football team. Can you believe it?
4. We went towards some old caves in the side of the mountain as soon as it started to rain.
5. I don't know why you had that argument with your sister. I hope you've become friends again by now!
6. She pretended that she'd been at her friend's house when, in fact, she'd been with Ramon.

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 134

1. out
2. up
3. of
4. up
5. out

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 3 / page 134

3 and 9

SPEAKING

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 135

a pop music CD, a newspaper, a football, a hamburger

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 3 / page 135

The man takes more initiative in making suggestions; the woman just responds.
The man gives extended answers, using a variety of structures and expressions; the woman gives very short answers.
The man encourages the woman to participate.
The woman's intonation is generally flat and bored.
The man's intonation is much more varied and indicates interest in the task and his partner's responses.

USING OF ENGLISH

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 1 / page 135

1. so or such?
2. try + ing
3. go on + -ing
4. remember + infinitive
5. can't + have + past participle (past modal of deduction)
6. comparatives
7. deny + ing (reporting verb)
8. since + present perfect simple
9. linker of consequence

Going for Gold - Coursebook :
ex 2 / page 135

She changed the words given.
She used five words in the space.
She added a reference to in summer which changes the meaning.

1. The holiday was so good that we decided to go there again.
2. You could try doing a bit more exercise.
3. She went on practising after everyone else had gone home.
4. I must remember to get up early tomorrow.
5. She can't have left already.
6. Her bike was more expensive than mine.
7. He denied seeing a man standing outside his house.
8. It's been two years since we've been on holiday.
9. Bring a camera so (that) we can take a few photos.