Vocabulary and grammar reviews Units 7 and 8

Vocabulary and grammar review Unit 7

Vocabulary

1 Complete these sentences with the correct form of the ‘money verbs’ in the box.

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 fl at 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 offi cers when they fi nish 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.

2 For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fi ts 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.

occasional B odd C rare D scarce A visitors B guests C friends D performers A day B time C generation D date A shows B displays C represents D presents A exist B are C live D survive A pace B step C speed D time A observed B celebrated C honoured D memorised A ways B types C kinds D walks A current B existing C living D contemporary

Grammar

3 Combine sentences in the following extracts from fi lm reviews, using these ways of linking ideas: relative clauses participle clauses 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 fi nds all this very diffi cult. The boy is only eleven years old.

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 fi lms. These fi lms 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 fi lm is based on a sci-fi novel by Richard Matheson.

Vocabulary and grammar review Unit 8

Vocabulary

1 Complete these words to match the defi nitions. ex- (n) someone who used to work in politics. mis (v) have doubts about someone’s honesty il (adj) against the law dis (v) become invisible auto (n) a life story written by the person him/herself re (n) the act of claiming something back pre (v) have an opinion before knowing all the facts de (v) make unstable

2 Complete the table with the related words. In some cases there is more than one possible answer.

1 ethics (n) adjective: 2 entertain (v) noun: adjective: 3 cooperate (v) noun: adjective: 4 production (n) verb: adjective: 5 consider (v) noun: adjective: 6 creative (adj) verb: noun:

Grammar

3 Rewrite the following quotes in reported speech. ‘You mustn’t tell anyone what you’ve seen.’ (Roland to

Joanna) ‘It was a surprise seeing Tom last week. I hadn’t seen him since we were at school together.’ (Clare) ‘Shall I do the shopping this afternoon?’ (Ben to Jerry) ‘You must stop smoking if you want to get rid of your cough.’ (doctor to me) ‘How many languages can you speak?’ (Bogdan to me) 4 Rewrite the following as direct quotes. The police offi cer wanted to know what I was doing out so late. She asked if I had any plans for the following evening. I said that was the worst programme I’d ever seen. I promised I’d phone her as soon as I got home. Jerry said he hoped he’d be going there the following day.

5 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. Maria said, ‘I’ll never do that again.’

Maria do that again. ‘I think you should apply for this job,’ Alexei said to me.

Alexei job. Simon said, ‘Have you ever thought of starting your own business?’

Simon ever thought of starting my own business. ‘Let’s meet tomorrow,’ said Svetlana.

Svetlana day. ‘Don’t drink if you’re driving,’ the police offi cer said to the motorist.

The police offi cer if he was driving. Tom and Alexis said, ‘We’re getting married in May.’

Tom and Alexis in

May.