Rezolvarea exercitiilor de la MODULE
2 din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa X intitulat OPPORTUNITIES
UPPER-INTERMEDIATE, Editura Longman, Autori Michael Harris, David Mower si Anna
Sikorzynska, Editia 2011
MODULE
2: LAUGHTER
Warm-up
(page 15)
Exercise
2
1. burst out laughing
2. cackle
3. chuckle
4. fall about laughing
5. giggle
Exercise
3
1. c
2. d
3. a
4. b
4.
A COMIC NOVEL (page 16-17)
Exercise
1
water: drown, emerge, float, splash
ice: skate, slide
holding people: cling, clutch
nervous reactions: faint, redden, tremble, turn
pale
noise: scream, shout
Exercise
5
1. b
2. c
3. c
4. a
5. b
6. d
7. a
Exercise
6
1. b
2. c
3. e
4. a
5. d
a. fall down heavily
b. dry land
c. out of practice
d. turn pale
e. express an opinion
5.
CRAZY BUT TRUE! (page 18-19)
Exercise
1
Eating Humble Pie/3/C
On Thin ice/1/3
Out to Grass/2/A
Exercise
2
a. on the ice
b. eating humble pie
c. out to grass
Exercise
3
1. b
2. a
3. d
4. e
5. c
Exercise
4
c f b
d g (d and g may be at the same
time) a e
Exercise
5
b
Exercise
6
1. (bottom timeline)
2. (top timeline)
Exercise
7
2. because she had been working for hours
without a break
3. because they had been playing football
4. because she hadn’t been coming to work on
time
5. because she had been waiting for her
boyfriend for half an hour
6. because he had been talking on the phone for
hours
7. because she had been repairing his car all
afternoon
8. because she had been watching a thriller on
TV
Exercise
8
2. his girlfriend had left him/ he had been
talking to a friend about his problems
3. he had caught his shirt in the bush/ he had
been walking through the bushes
4. she had caught a cold the day before/ she
hadn’t been studying enough
5. they had won a free trip to Greece
Exercise
9
1. had been snowing
2. had seen
3. had been fighting
4. had had/ had been having
5. had lost, had put on
6. had been crying
Exercise
10
2. was playing
3. had played
4. had won
5. put
6. was drinking
7. was getting/ got
8. dropped out
9. potted
10. was watching
11. rushed
12. put
13. struck
14. could not
15. had made
16. arrived
17. freed
18. has been trying
19. played
20. was worrying
6.
WHAT’S SO FUNNY? (page 20-21)
Exercise
3
1. b
2. b
3. a
4. c
5. b
Exercise
6
1. Have you heard the one
about
2. there are
3. right
4. or somewhere like that
5. So
6. Well
7. And then
8. guess what
9. Luckily
10. eventually
11.just before
12. just can’t
Exercise
7
1. They make their two sons
promise to look after the house and not to get into trouble.
2. When they get back home
it’s about five in the morning.
3. They see this enormous
scratch on the back of the car.
4. They know their dad’s
going to go mad.
5. Luckily, one of their friends
works in a garage.
6. He eventually
comes and does the car, just before their parents come back home.
7. And there was a terrible
scratch, but now it’s gone.
Communication
workshop (pages 22-24)
Writing:
A Personal Anecdote
Exercise
1
A. 4
B. 1
C. 2
D. 6
E. 5
Exercise
2
1. until
2. all of a sudden
3. After
4. when
5. as soon as
6. immediately
7. After
8. Then
9. Eventually
10.
Suddenly
11.Before
12.
In
the end
13.
following
14.
at
last
Exercise
3
1. higher than a cat’s back
2. pop off
3. tough guys
4. joint
5. doll
6. smack
7. pal
informal
Exercise
4
After: leaving (B), throwing
(C), (before) getting (D)
Having: examined (A), left
(D), taken (E)
1. After finishing/ Having
finished my English homework, I walked to the post office to post a letter.
2. After posting/ Having
posted the letter, I met a friend in the street and went for a coffee.
3. After having (had)/
Having had coffee, we went to the cinema together.
4. After having (had)/
Having had coffee, we went to the cinema together.
5. After losing/ Having
lost three games, I went back home again.
Listening:
An American Comedian
Exercise
1
1. b
2. e
3. a
4. c
5. f
6. d
shell
Exercise
2
1. b
2. b
3. a
4. c
5. c
6. b
7. c
Speaking:
A Roleplay
Exercise
1
1. wife Amanda and two
children
2. India
3. Scotland
4. secret service
5. seven
6. snakes
7. ten metres
8. minus 60
9. fishing
10. Julia Roberts
11.Olympic runner
Exercise
2
Mmm/agreement
Really?/ surprise
I’m sorry/ sympathy
Were you?/ surprise
That’s right./ agreement
Did you?/ surprise
How awful!/ sympathy
Have you?/ surprise
You didn’t!/ surprise
Yeah/ showing you are
listening
Uhuh/ showing you are
listening
Language
Awareness 2 (page 25)
Exercise
1
1. work and marriage
problems
2. down/ depressed
3. slightly high blood
pressure and breathing quickly, but nothing very serious
4. because the man is the
circus down
Exercise
2
was feeling/ Past Continuous
had been going/ Past Perfect Continuous
had been feeling/ Past Perfect Continuous
was looking/ Past Continuous
was coughing/ Past Continuous
was screaming/ Past Continuous
had been waiting/ Past Perfect Continuous
was writing/ Past Continuous
I’m just finishing/ Present Continuous
I’ve been having/ Present Perfect Continuous
I’ve been doing/ Present Perfect Continuous
you’re looking/ Present Continuous
everything is working/ Present Continuous
you are breathing/ Present Continuous
I am going/ ‘going to’ future
am working/ Present Continuous for future time
I’ll be arriving/ Future Continuous
is performing/ Present Continuous
Exercise
3
b: finished actions
a: unfinished actions
Exercise
4
b: permanent
a: temporary
Exercise
5
a: prolonged activity
b: single activity
Exercise
6
Continuous: a d
f
Simple: b c e
Exercise
7
‘need’ and ‘hear’ cannot be used in the
continuous tense. ‘think’ can be used in the continuous tense but might sound a
little strange in this sentence. (Compare: ‘I’m thinking of changing my job.’)
Exercise
8
The only verbs that can
be used in the continuous tense as well as the simple tense are ‘look’, ‘have’,
‘think’ and ‘feel’.
Review
(page 26-27)
Exercise
1
2.
made
3.
were
4.
had won
5.
had been studying
6.
had already acted
7.
predicted
8.
wasn’t planning
9.
went
10.
had previously studied
11.
believed
12.
was studying
13.
was practicing
14.
played
15.
was doing
16.
was convinced
Exercise
2
1.
have
been reading/ have read
2.
went
past/ was standing
3.
was
washing/ finished
4.
had
been hiding/ had put
5.
were
barking/ barked
6.
am
having/ has
7.
got/
had been working
8.
live/
are going down/ are destroying
9.
were
singing/ was shining
10. had finished
11.11. had been working/
looked/ were breathing
12. has been working/ has
written
13. am staying/ is being
painted
Exercise
3
2.
lovely
3.
good
4.
some
5.
out of
6.
sharp
7.
went
8.
hit
9.
all right
10.
damaged
11.
out
12.
so
13.
felt
14.
felt
Exercise
4
affectionate,
sympathetic, sensible, selfish, funny, nervous, reserved, conventional,
practical, decisive, sentimental, childish, ambitious
Exercise
5
1.
get
on with/ getting at
2.
looking
forward to/ dressing up
3.
takes
after/ go in for
4.
made
out
5.
went
off
6.
put
up with
7.
cheer
up
Exercise
6
First
syllable: temperature, practical, article, comfortable, interesting, national,
business, restaurant
Second
syllable: imaginative, conservative, ability, spectator, communicative,
embarrassment, deliberate, democracy, affectionate
Third
syllable from the end: nationality, electricity
Penultimate
syllable: institution, information, scientific, nationalistic, enthusiastic,
organisation, democratic
temperature,
comfortable, interesting, business
Culture
Corner 1 (page 28)
Exercise
2
d) g)
e) b) f)
a) c)
Viking
raids and Danish invaders – 750 to about 1000
Norman
invasion – 1066
English
is used at court again – end of fourteenth century
Caxton
introduces printing press – 1476
Samuel
Johnson’s dictionary - 1753
Exercise
3
1.
b
2.
b
3.
a
4.
b
5.
b
6.
c
7.
a
8.
c
9.
b
Exercise
4
1.
Irish
2.
standard
English
3.
London
4.
Scottish
5.
Birmingham
6.
Welsh
7.
Manchester
8.
West
Country
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