Vocabulary and grammar review Unit 7
Vocabulary
Grammar
1 Complete these sentences with the correct form of the ‘money verbs’ in the box.
3 Combine sentences in the following extracts from film reviews, using these ways of linking ideas:
afford
cost
earn
hire
make
pay
rent
sell
spend
I’d love to own a sports car, but I can’t one. I’ll be working in Prague for two years. Hopefully we’ll a flat near the city centre. My brother works in a fast-food restaurant. He only £120 a week. I’ve decided to my motorbike and get a car. We’ve a jazz band to play at the party on Saturday. Do you know what police officers when they finish their training? Those jeans a fortune, but it’s really the designer label you’re for. It’s amazing how much people on birthday presents for their boyfriends or girlfriends.
t relative clauses t participle clauses t apposition
1 Libero A boy tries to understand his family. He tries to stop it from breaking apart. At the same time he has to deal with his mother’s absence. He finds all this very difficult. The boy is only eleven years old.
2 For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.
For 70 years now the radio programme Desert Island Discs has managed that (0) C feat – to be both enduring and relevant. By choosing as (1) on the programme the biggest names of the (2) in science, business, politics, showbiz, sport and the arts, it (3) a cross-sectional snapshot of the times in which we (4) . As the decades have passed, the programme has kept (5) : never frozen in time yet always, somehow, comfortingly the same. Desert Island Discs has recently (6) its 70th birthday. Since its inception in January 1942, nearly 3,000 distinguished people from all (7) of life have been stranded on the imaginary island, accompanied only by their eight favourite records. This new book, by the programme’s (8) presenter, chronicles the story of one of British radio’s favourite programmes.
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" occasional A visitors A day A shows A exist A pace A observed A ways A current
B odd B guests B time B displays B are B step B celebrated B types B existing
C rare C friends C generation C represents C live C speed C honoured C kinds C living
D scarce D performers D date D presents D survive D time D memorised D walks D contemporary
2 Be Kind Rewind A man unintentionally destroys every tape in a video store. The man’s name is Black. His brain becomes magnetised. The store is owned by Black’s best friend. Black and his friend feel sorry for the store’s most loyal customer. This customer is an elderly woman. She is losing her memory. The two men set out to remake the lost films. These films include The Lion King and RoboCop.
3 I Am Legend A military scientist is left completely alone in New York. The city is deserted. A virus has wiped out the human race. The scientist is played by Will Smith. The film is based on a sci-fi novel by Richard Matheson.
