OUTCOMES - UPPER-INTEMEDIATE - UNIT 8

Rezolvarea exercitiilor din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa IX intitulat OUTCOMES UPPER-INTERMEDIATE, Editura Heinle Cengage Learning, Autori Hugh Dellar, Andrew Walkley, Editia 2011

OUTCOMES ADVANCED

UNIT 8: NATURE

Vocabulary – Describing scenery

Step 1

1. a mountain range
2. plains
3. a peak
4. a crater
5. the mouth of the river
6. a glacier
7. wetland
8. a stream
9. cliffs
10. a bay
11. a gorge
12. woodland

Step 2

1. rolling hills, winding streams, thick or dense woodland
2. arid, edge or fringes, dunes
3. countryside or landscape, fertile
4. track or road, rugged, gorges
5. breathtaking or stunning, sandy or rocky, crystal clear

Listening

Step 1

Conversation 1

1. Jura in France
2. on holiday
3. mountainous with gorges and valleys, winding rivers – rugged

Conversation 2

1. Venezuela – to a big glacier
2. working, doing research
3. breathtaking, dense woodland with ice and mountains

Listening

Step 1

1. retreating into their cave
2. communicate with others/ reach out
3. these myths/ the myth of difference
4. a negative effect on out culture
5. based on scientific research
6. both sexes talk equally
7. 16,000 words
8. power/ position of power
9. stereotypes we already have
10. occasions which back up the evidence
11. gender roles
12. swear/ express their anger by swearing

Step 2

1. g
2. e
3. b
4. a
5. c
6. h
7. d
8. f

Grammar – Auxiliaries

Step 1

1. a isn’t   b aren’t
2. a are   b doing
3. a do   b does
4. a Does   b Did
5. a do    b have

Step 2

1. question tags
2. substitution – to avoid repeating a whole phrase
3. emphasis
4. as a response
5. with so or neither/ nor – another type of substitution

Vocabulary – Communicating

Step 1

1. gossip + rumours
2. mince + blunt
3. shuts up + word
4. twisting + words
5. manners + butting into
6. listener + shoulder
7. articulate + struggle
8. bush + point

Reading 1

Step 2

1. he marvels at the ingenuity of the human race
2. he is interested in other forms of life and it makes him feel humbled
3. he enjoys the details of animals’ lives – it is like watching six films rolled into one
4. it reminds him that we are part of nature too

Step 4

1. predators
2. prey
3. mate
4. foraging
5. food chain
6. flock
7. herd
8. rear

Vocabulary – Animals

Step 1

1. legs, fur, feelers, nostrils, a claw
2. a tail, legs, fur, nostrils
3. legs, a claw, a beak, a wing, a breast, a tail, a toe
4. a tail, a beak, a breast
5. legs, nostrils, a hump
6. scales, teeth
7. a beak
8. a hoof, legs, a horn

Step 2

1. mole: claws for digging, tail for storing fat; feelers for ‘seeing’; star-shaped nose to smell its prey
2. sparrow hawk: wings and tail to fly fast; markings to camouflage it; long legs to kill mid-flight; long slender middle toe to grip and hold prey; beak for plucking and tearing flesh

Step 3

1. e
2. g
3. a
4. f
5. i
6. j
7. d
8. h
9. c
10. b