Vocabulary and grammar reviews Units 11 and 12

Vocabulary and grammar review Unit 11

Vocabulary

1 Complete each sentence with the correct form of one of the phrasal verbs from the box.

call off call up drop out pay up put off sign up

Helen has a bit of free time and has decided to for a cookery course. I tried to Francesca , but she’d got her phone turned off. The conference has been because not enough people are interested in attending. Paul was supposed to come travelling with us but he had to at the last minute. Mikhail has had to his holiday till next month because he has too much work on at the moment. They owe us a lot of money and unless they soon, we’ll take them to court.

2 Complete each of the sentences below with a phrase or expression from the box.

get your hands on kept waiting nothing to do with out of touch sick and tired of the whole point of without a trace

What I call real travelling has the

holiday trips that most tourists tend to go on. With smart phones and internet cafés, there’s no excuse for being when travelling nowadays. I’m a busy man and I hate being by people who are late. I’m people phoning me to sell me things and interrupting my work. If you travel with a group, you miss travelling, which is to have completely new experiences and meet completely new people. He disappeared somewhere in the

Pacifi c, some weeks after setting off in a small boat to sail round the world. If you can a good grammar book, it should help you a lot with your exam preparation. 3 Complete these sentences by writing at, in or on in each of the gaps. I’ll be waiting the news stand when you arrive. Did you see Ferenc the conference? Samya is her third year university. Don’t interrupt me while I’m the phone! We do all our shopping that big new shopping centre the outskirts of town. I’d love to spend my holidays a Pacifi c island!

Grammar

4 Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the fi rst, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between three and six words, including the word given. Dieter missed the plane because he overslept.

If Dieter had missed the plane. Nelson didn’t get the job because when he came to his job interview, he arrived late.

If Nelson his job interview, he would have got the job. Eva couldn’t apply for the job in IT because she knows that her computer skills aren’t good enough.

Eva knows that if her computer skills for the job in IT. Could you please refund my money as soon as possible?

I would refund my money as soon as possible. We would have gone swimming if Bruno hadn’t advised us not to.

If it , we would have gone swimming. I am only participating in this activity because my teacher asked me to.

I this activity if my teacher had not asked me to.

Vocabulary and grammar review Unit 12

Vocabulary

1 Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fi ts in the gap in each of these sentences. I don’t know why everyone’s being so towards me. I’ve done nothing wrong. FRIEND Global warming is one of the world’s most serious problems. ENVIRONMENT It can be diffi cult for people with certain to fi nd a job. ABLE She has an extensive of French history. KNOW You can tell from his that he spends a lot of money on clothes. APPEAR In this job you have to be original and to think . CREATE I hope my solicitor will be able to my legal situation. CLEAR Yesterday there was a sudden downward in share prices. MOVE

2 Two of these sentences are correct, but the others contain mistakes with prepositions. Correct the mistakes. Over a hundred thousand people participated with yesterday’s marathon. Whether we go skiing or not depends to the weather and the state of the snow. Do you have anything useful to contribute in our discussion? This morning’s lecture will focus on Picasso’s early work. You needn’t fi ll in that section of the form – it doesn’t apply for you. If the CD doesn’t play properly, I’d take it back to the shop and insist for a refund. Can you turn the TV down? I can’t concentrate to what you’re saying. Do you believe in supernatural phenomena?

Grammar

3 Complete this text with a/an, the or Ø (no article).

For some years, (1) global warming, which is the gradual heating of (2) Earth, was (3) topic of heated debate in (4) scientifi c community, but today the consensus among (5) researchers is that (6) phenomenon is real and is caused by (7) human activity, primarily (8) burning of fossil fuels that pump (9) carbon dioxide and (10) other greenhouse gases into (11) atmosphere. Scientists have found that the number and severity of (12) extreme weather events, which include high or low temperatures and intense storms, are (13) effective measure of (14) climate change and global warming. Indeed it is now agreed that global warming will have (15) far-reaching and, in many cases, devastating consequences for (16) planet.

4 Read the text below and think of the word that best fi ts each gap. Use only one word in each gap.

What is biofuel?

A biofuel is a hydrocarbon (0) that is made by or from a living organism that humans can use (1) power something. This defi nition of a biofuel is rather formal. (2) practice, any hydrocarbon fuel that is produced from organic matter in a short period of time is considered a biofuel. This contrasts (3) fossil fuels, which take millions of years to form, and with other types of fuel which are (4) based on hydrocarbons – nuclear fi ssion, for instance. What makes biofuels tricky to understand is that they (5) not be made by a living organism. Biofuels can also be made through chemical reactions, carried (6) in a laboratory or industrial setting that uses organic matter to make fuel. (7) only real requirements for a biofuel are that the starting material must be CO2 that was fi xed by a living organism and the fi nal fuel product must be produced quickly (8) than over millions of years.