INNOVATIONS - UPPER INTERMEDIATE - UNIT 4

Rezolvarea exercitiilor din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa XI si XII intitulat INNOVATIONS UPPER-INTERMEDIATE Second Edition, Editura Heinle Cengage Learning, Autori Hugh Dellar si Darryl Hocking 

UNIT 4: UNUSUAL INTERESTS

USING GRAMMAR

1. The –ing form as a verb

1. surfing the net

2. studying English/Spanish/Russian, etc.

3. raising money for sick animals

4. singing

5. gardening/visiting gardens

6. planning my summer holidays

7. mountaineering/hill-walking

8. helping homeless people

The time expressions are:

1. his whole life

2. most of the winter

3. a lot of time

4. all his free time

5. all her time

6. ages

7. nearly every weekend

8. every Saturday night

Pattern a: whenever I can, as often as I can, quite often, on Tuesdays

Pattern b: most of my evenings, all my Saturday mornings, all my life, half my life

2. The –ing form as a noun

1. Ballroom dancing

2. mountaineering

3. Sailing

4. Going off travelling

5. Learning Japanese

6. Helping the poor/homeless/elderly

7. Learning to ride a motorbike

8. Visiting gardens

1. All right

1. c

2. f

3. b

4. a

5. d

6. g

7. e

4. More –ing forms in use

1. What? Do you mean just watching it or do you actually box yourself?

2. What? Do you mean just watching it or do you actually play yourself?

3. What? Do you mean just going to Chinese restaurants or do you actually make it yourself?

4. What? Do you mean just going to galleries or do you actually paint yourself?

5. What? Do you mean youth culture or Beethoven and things like that?

READING

3. While you read (It’s a man’s world?)

Possible answers:

Women earn 30% less than men. It’s difficult for women to get the top jobs in many companies. Women do more than their fair share of the work in the home. Women’s boxing isn’t officially recognised.

5. Comprehension check

1. They go off in a huff.

2. A glass ceiling.

3. British Boxing Board of Control.

4. No, because she was being sarcastic.

6. Vocabulary check

1. champion

2. ring

3. sarcastically

4. research

5. earn

6. opposition

7. taking

8. crime

USING GRAMMAR

1. Would and ‘d

1. c

2. e

3. a

4. b

5. d

1. Grammar in context

1. I’d quite like to

2. That’d be great

3. I would if I could

4. If you’d rather

5. that’d be great

6. I would if I could

7. I’d quite like to

8. If you’d rather