HIGH FLYER - UPPER INTERMEDIATE - STUDENTS' BOOK - UNIT 20

Rezolvarea exercitiilor de la  UNIT 20 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 20 YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

LEAD IN

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

Ex.1 / page 82

Peter ran away to Malaysia but he’s back home now.

READING

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Ex.3 / page 82

1.      to Malaysia

2.    He used his father’s credit cards.

3.    He used his father’s passport and changed the photo.

4.    When he tried to cross the border into Thailand.

5.     He had had an argument with his parents over some spilt spaghetti.

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

Ex.4 / page 83

‘Runaway boy returns to reality after fantasy trip’ = report 1 (The word ‘fantasy’ is repeated in the first paragraph.); ‘Runaway boy is back home – but for how long?’ = report 2 (This headline seems to doubt that Peter will stay at home for long and report 2 states that Peter seems to be ‘totally out of his parents’ control’.)

GRAMMAR

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Ex.6 / page 83

1.      in a low voice

2.    out of the blue

3.    on duty

4.    by fax

5.     at all

6.    in all

7.     on humanitarian grounds

8.    out of control

WORD WATCH

unusual, disadvantage, impartial, invaluable, illegible, irrelevant

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

Ex.7 / page 84

1.      unhappy

2.    illegal

3.    inefficient

4.    impossible

5.     irresponsible

6.    disapproves

High Flyer – Upper Intermediate

Ex.8 / page 85

Different: Lorena looks quite happy, Peter doesn’t. She looks proud whereas Peter doesn’t. Similar: They are both teenagers of about the same age.

READING

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Ex.9 / page 85

1.      Why is Lorena in the Guinness Book of Records? Because she’s the youngest golf player to have won the Junior Golf World Championship five consecutive times.

2.    How did she start playing? Her father took her to the nearby golf course for short sessions when she was three.

3.    How was Lorena’s father wrong about her? He thought the pressure of Lorena’s first Junior Golf World Championship would be too much for her.

4.    What does she think is most important in golf? Concentration and relaxation.

5.     What does she want to do next? Win a scholarship to a golfing school in the States.

GRAMMAR

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Ex.11 / page 85

1.      as, like

2.    as … as

3.    like

4.    as … as

5.     as

6.    like

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Ex.12 / page 85

2. we didn’t have anything else to do

3. they were better than girls

4. they knew more than boys

5. I was/ were crazy