Vocabulary and grammar reviews Units 1 and 2

Vocabulary and grammar review Unit 1

Vocabulary

1 Complete each of the sentences below by writing the correct form of give, do or make in each gap. The minister a rousing speech at the end of the conference. Carrie sat through the entire meeting without a single suggestion to solve the problem. We our students plenty of opportunities to speak to ensure they become fl uent. Fergus a pretty bad impression in

Saturday’s match, so the manager is him just one last chance or he’ll be dropped from the team. If you’d just me the details, I’ll take a note of them and pass them to the person responsible. I never expected to see you at the concert because the last time we met, you me the impression that you didn’t like classical music. If you’re not completely satisfi ed with the result, we’ll you a full refund. Patsy is just a phone call at the moment, so she’ll be with us in a sec.

Grammar

2 For questions 1–6, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the fi rst sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between three and six words, including the word given. I received some very useful advice from Gustavo.

I me very useful.

The opportunity to study at university should be open to everyone.

Everyone to study at university. The fi rst time Carla went skiing was last Monday.

Carla last

Monday. We were all favourably impressed with Paola’s lecture.

The lecture on all of us.

Students don’t spend their free time in the same way as fi fty years ago.

The way students spend their free time

fi fty years. Without a receipt, they will not return your money.

They will not you have a receipt.

3 Circle the best alternative in italics in the sentences below. We got to the park quite soon after lunch and fortunately the rain stopped / had stopped by then. We’d stood / We’d been standing in the rain for at least twenty minutes before the bus arrived, by which time we were feeling / had been feeling pretty cold and wet, as you can imagine. I’ve driven / I’ve been driving along this road a thousand times – I could almost do it with my eyes shut! You’d expect Fran to be looking tired because she’s studied / she’s been studying for her fi nal exams for the last three weeks. Maisie ate / had been eating sweets all evening so it was not surprising she didn’t want any supper! I think people used to work / would work much harder in the past than they do nowadays. So much noise had come / had been coming from our fl at all afternoon that eventually the neighbours complained and we had to explain that we repaired / were repairing the heater and that we’d be fi nishing soon. We always used to go to the Mediterranean for our holidays when I was a child. I think we went / used to go to Ibiza at least fi ve times.

Vocabulary and grammar review Unit 2

Vocabulary

1 For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fi ts in the gap in the same line.

Linguistics has undegone two great revolutions in the past 70 years. In the late 1950s Noam Chomsky that all languages were built on an underlying (1) grammar embedded in human genes. A second shift in linguistics – an (2) of interest in small and endangered languages –has focused on the (3) of linguistic experience. Field linguists are more interested in the (4) that make each language unique and the ways that culture can be (5) in a language’s form. At present some 85 percent of languages have yet to be documented. Understanding them can only (6) our comprehension of what is similar in all languages. Different languages highlight the range of human experience, revealing that aspects of life that we have a (7) to think of as true of all languages, such as our experience of time, number or colour, are in fact quite (8) . In the Siberian language Tuva, for example, the past is always spoken of as ahead of one and the future is behind one’s back. theorised

2 Complete each of these sentences with a word/phrase relating to language (the number of letters in each word is given at the end of the sentence). You’ve got to be able to write for this job.

We can’t afford to have people making mistakes. (10 letters) Amina expresses her ideas very clearly – but then she’s a highly young woman. (10) Having lived in Chile for seven years, Philippe has a perfect of Spanish. (7) It takes a great deal of practice to achieve in a language. (7) I prefer to the language while I’m visiting the country rather than going to classes. (4, 2) Maria’s English is virtually perfect although her is Greek. (6, 6) With a Japanese father and a French mother,

Motoko is completely . (9)

3 Complete these sentences by writing the correct form of make, get or do in the gaps. Lee has been working hard because he needs to better professional qualifi cations. The new principal is planning on quite a few changes to the way this college is run. How long have you been your current job? It was a diffi cult decision, but I think you the right choice. I don’t understand you. What point are you trying to ? It wouldn’t you any harm to take a bit more exercise!

Grammar

4 Complete each of these sentences with a word or phrase from the box.

due to in case otherwise so as so that with the intention of

I caught an earlier train fi nishing the report before my boss arrived in the offi ce. Natalie delivered the parcel herself to make sure it arrived

safely. If I were you, I’d take your bank card your money runs out. You really should write new vocabulary in your notebook, you’ll forget it. Services on North-East Trains were cancelled today a train drivers’ strike. Amin covered his face as he left the building no one would recognise him.