GOING FOR GOLD UPPER INTERMEDIATE - LANGUAGE MAXIMISER - UNIT 6

Rezolvarea exercitiilor de la Unit 6: MY HERO din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa a IX-a intitulat GOING FOR GOLD - UPPER INTERMEDIATE - LANGUAGE MAXIMISER, Editura Longman, Autori Richard Acklam si Araminta Crace, Editia 2003

GOING FOR GOLD - LANGUAGE MAXIMISER

Unit 6: MY HERO

Grammar 1

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1. some

2. some

3. much

4. any

5. many

6. doesn’t

7. Was, much

8. any

 

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1. Few

2. a little

3. little

4. any

5. many

6. doesn’t

7. was, much

8. any

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line 1 delete a

line 2 delete the 

line 4 delete of

line 5 delete of

line 6 delete the

line 8 delete the

line 10 delete a 

Vocabulary 1

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1. paper

2. chicken

3. some new luggage

4. some advice

5. a coffee

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1. sugar

2. rain

3. bread, jam

4. apple pie

5. sunscreen

6. chocolate

7.  wine, tea

8. cheese

Grammar 2

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1. they were hoping to be

2. they had played really well

3. He said (that) they had been planning to buy a house together.

4. She told me (that) she had bought Dimitra a present.

5. She said (that) she had been waiting for me for over an hour.

6. She said (that) she would finish the assignment by Monday.

7.  She said (that) she was going to stay with some friends on Saturday night.

8. He said (that) he could pick Angelou up at the airport.

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1. admitted (that) she had borrowed my digital camera without asking

2. denied being anywhere near the house when it was burgled

3. explained that he had had to go to the dentist so he couldn’t come to the meeting.

4. warned (the girls) not to walk home alone at night.

5. suggested having a picnic at the beach. 

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1. She asked me if I had always lived there.

2. She asked me what I was studying at the moment.

3. She asked me what I had done during the summer.

4. She asked me if I had enjoyed myself.

5. She asked me if I had got any special plans for the future.

6. She asked me what I was going to do when I finished studying.

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1. if I thought that Superman was a better film

2. she couldn’t come to my party tomorrow

3. told Ela that the telephone company still hadn’t fixed

4. admitted that he had stolen

5. warned me that I would get burnt if I didn’t use some sunscreen

6. asked me when I would write to my grandmother 

Vocabulary 2

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Across
2. bone 

4. cut

6. nurse 

7. hurt

9. wheelchair

10. breathing

Down
1. stitches

2. bruise

3. faint

5. injection

8. rash

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1. C

2. A

3. C

4. C

5. A

6. B

7. B

8. C

9. A

10. C

11. B

Writing

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1. The first lne of each paragraph is:

I’m going to tell you…

There are services for elderly people…

I think it would be good if …

So, basically we’re doing some good things…

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1. I

2. F

3. F

4. I

5. F  

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1. h

2. c

3. e

4. g

5. a

6. b

7.  d

8. f

Listening

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3

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1. c

2. b

3. f

4. d

5. b

6. c

7. g

8. d

9. a

10. e

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1. $35,000

2. 1982

3. best actor

4. 30

5. 1998

6. $75 million

7.  certain

8. 50

9. unfortunate

10. ‘Lucky Man’

Tapescript

Back in 1980, Michael J Fox certainly didn’t seem to have a very promising future. He had dropped out of high school, had a few parts in TV series and had then left Canada, where he was born, to try his luck in Hollywood. There, things hadn’t gone very well for him. He has sold most of the furniture in his rented apartment but still owed $35,000. He was so poor that the only thing he could afford to eat was macaroni with cheese. Two years later, however, Fox was given a role in a very successful TV series called Family Ties and a star was born. He won the Emmy award for best actor four years running in 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988. At the same time, he was one of the most popular film actors, largely because of his starring role in the Back to the Future movies. Tragically, in the early 1990s, when his career was at its height, Michael was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. At only thirty, he was much younger than most of the people who suffer from Parkinson’s, a disease that affects the muscles and nervous system, making body parts shake. Even though it was very difficult, Michael was determined to keep on acting for as long as he could. He made eleven movies between 1991 and 1998, when he was finally forced to tell people about his illness. This still didn’t stop his acting career, however. He was cast as the lead in another hit TV series, Spin City, and was also the voice of the mouse, Stuart Little in the movie of the same name, which was made in 1999. Recently, Michael has given less time to his acting career and more to trying to find a cure for this terrible disease. He has campaigned tirelessly and has succeeded in raising over $75 million for research. He has also set up his own foundation known as the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. He hopes his foundation will make people more aware of the disease and continue to raise more money. He feels certain that scientists will find a cure for Parkinson’s by the year 2010 when Michael himself will be fifty. It is easy to think of Michael as having been extremely unfortunate but he doesn’t agree. He published a book about his life in 2001 and called it Lucky Man.