HIGH FLYER - UPPER INTERMEDIATE - STUDENTS' BOOK - UNIT 1

Rezolvarea exercitiilor de la  UNIT 1 din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa a VIII-a intitulat HIGH FLYER - UPPER INTERMEDIATE, Students’ Book, Editura Longman, Autori Ana Acevedo si Marisol Gower, Editia 1999

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

UNIT 1 CROSSING BORDERS

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

Ex.1/ page 6

 (English speaking countries): Great Britain: England, Scotland, Wales. Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

VOCABULARY

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Ex.3/ page 6

1.      Formal and serious because of the vocabulary and the mention of the political reasons.

2.    Informal: it addresses the reader directly with a question but doesn’t give any other information.

3.    Informal: it quotes what people actually said.

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Ex.4/ page 7

1.      paragraph 4 (lines 12-17)

2.    paragraph 2 (lines 4-8)

3.    paragraph 7 (lines 29-32)

4.    paragraph 5 (lines 18-22)

5.     paragraph 6 (lines 23-28)

6.    paragraph 3 (lines 9-11)

GRAMMAR

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Ex.6/ page 7

Present Perfect: have made (1.3) and will probably continue to, has been accepted (1.5) we don’t know when, has won (1.7) we don’t know when, have made (1.21) and will probably make more, has adapting been …? (1.23) and the adaptation process will continue, have adapted (1.29) and they will probably adapt completely

Present Perfect Continuous: (one explanation only): has been visiting (1.7), have been living (1.29)

Past Simple (one explanation only): went (1.1), arrived (1.4), emigrated (1.9), had to have (1.10), left (1.12), didn’t know (1.14), started (1.15), studied (1.15), had to talk (1.16), needed (1.17), had to do (1.18), had (1.19), asked (1.19), took (1.20), wanted (1.21), were (1.24), heard (1.25), thought (1.25), was (1.26), played (1.26), was (1.27), saw (1.27), was (1.28), went (1.31)

Past Continuous: were overtaking (1.11) they started before the end of the following 12 month period and continued, was attending (1.12) she attended until they left Poland, were playing (1.27) they started before she arrived and continued

Past Perfect (one explanation only): had done (1.13), had studied (1.15), had been (1.25)

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Ex.7/ page 7

1.      have emigrated, left

2.    arrived, were having

3.    has been studying

4.    hadn’t studied, arrived, had been

5.     has attended

6.    had not been, moved

7.     went

LISTENING

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Ex.8/ page 7

1.      a radio programme

2.    an interview

3.    open question

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Ex.9/ page 8

1.      3 years ago

2.    to be near family

3.    pilot, away most of the time

4.    went to Argentina with mum

5.     more formal and serious

6.    worn uniform

7.     to pass exams and go to university

8.    American football games

READING

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Ex.12/ page 8

1.      It’s a conference between people in different places. They see only video images of each other.

2.    It’s a project which sets up video conferences between schools all over the world. (The purpose of the project is to increase young people’s understanding of other cultures.)

3.    Video cameras and computers linked to the Internet.

4.    … the transmission wasn’t very good.

5.     water pollution

6.    … also talked about less serious things.

GRAMMAR

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Ex.13/ page 9

2. One girl didn’t know anybody in the States.

3. Most people had never seen anything like it.

4. Nobody did anything wrong.

5. There isn’t anybody in the computer room.

6. Dave never swims in the sea.

7. I haven’t been anywhere in the last week.

8. It’s important not to panic.

9. Haven’t you done your homework?