Grammar Plus B2

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TRACK 1 Unit 1 exercise 4 Woman: Tell me about your city. Boy: Well, I live in a town by the sea. I quite like living there. Woman: How do you usually go to school? Boy: It depends. When it rains I go by bus, if it’s sunny I walk. Woman: What do you think of horror movies? Boy: Actually, I enjoy watching them. Woman: What are your hobbies? Boy: This year I’m doing a course at the drama school. It’s fun. Woman: What do your parents do? Boy: My father doesn’t work and my mother’s a doctor. Woman: What are your plans for the summer? Boy: I’m going to Australia for a couple of months. Woman: What are your subjects this year? Boy: This year I’m studying Maths, Science and Physics. Woman: What’s the weather like in your country? Boy: It’s usually sunny and warm. It hardly ever rains. TRACK 2 Unit 1 exercise 7 Woman 1: And who’s this girl? Woman 2: Which one? The one sitting on the white sofa? Woman 1: Yes, what a lovely smile... Woman 2: Oh that’s my daughter! She’s always walking barefoot at home, which really drives me mad. She can’t stand wearing slippers. Woman 1: She looks like you a lot. Woman 2: Yeah, I suppose she takes after me. Woman 1 What are you doing? Woman 2: Oh, we’re browsing through a magazine. I remember that day. Woman 1: What a wonderful bright living room you have. And I can see a garden through the window behind the sofa. Woman 2: Yes, though it’s not that big... TRACK 3 Unit 2 exercise 4 Last night I had a dream that I was babysitting my little sister at my place when someone rang the doorbell. I opened the door and I saw two strange-looking men who were standing on their hands: one of them was wearing a clown outfit while the other looked like an ape and kept telling silly jokes trying to make me laugh. They told me they were looking for their black and white kitten and when I said I hadn’t seen it they rushed upstairs where my sister was sleeping. Then I woke up. TRACK 4 Unit 3 exercise 4 Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses. One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with other people’s children. Then a man from Belfast bought the field and built houses in it — not like their little brown houses but bright brick houses with shining roofs. The children of the

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avenue used to play together in that field — the Devines, the Waters, the Dunns, little Keogh the cripple, she and her brothers and sisters. Ernest, however, never played: he was too grown up. Her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick; but usually little Keogh used to keep nix and call out when he saw her father coming. Still they seemed to have been rather happy then. Her father was not so bad then; and besides, her mother was alive. That was a long time ago; she and her brothers and sisters were all grown up her mother was dead. Tizzie Dunn was dead, too, and the Waters had gone back to England. Everything changes. TRACK 5 Unit 4 exercise 4 Tina: George where have you been? It’s almost 5 and my parents will be here for dinner by 7. George: Sorry Tina, I was stuck in a traffic jam for almost an hour and the cell phone battery went dead. Tina: I hope you’ve bought all we need for the cocktail at least. Did you find the frozen shrimp? George: Yes, I got two packets, but unfortunately they were out of mayonnaise. Tina: Oh, that’s not too bad. I can make it myself. But I need the eggs. Did you get them? George: Yes, I got a dozen. What did you manage to do in the meantime? Tina: The lasagna is in the oven and it’s ready. I wanted to make meatballs but then I realised I didn’t have any cheese. George: I got some Parmesan cheese if you want. Shall we make them now? I’ll give you a hand with that. Tina: Ok, but first put the bottles of white wine you bought in the fridge. TRACK 6 Unit 5 exercise 6 Dave: Is that you Rebecca? Rebecca: Excuse me, I don’t think I know you... Dave: Reb, it’s me, Dave. Don’t you remember? We were classmates at primary school. Rebecca: David Crosby! I don’t believe it. Boy, have you changed! I would never have recognized you. Dave: Yeah, I guess I was just a kid and at 10 I had no beard. You look exactly the same, though. What have you been doing in the past 25 years? Rebecca: Oh, nothing special. I still live here in Brighton, with my husband. I have two kids, a boy of 8 and a girl of 5. I used to work as a teacher but I stopped when I had my second child. Dave: Sounds great. I have a daughter too, but my ex wife and I got divorced in 2012. I moved to London last year, so I just come here at weekends to see Zoe. Rebecca: I see. Look, I’ve got to go now, I have to pick up the kids from school in about 15 minutes. Here’s my phone number: why don’t you call me this afternoon? If you’re in town this weekend, you could come round for a cup of coffee and we could catch up on things... Dave: Lovely. I’ll call you at around 2pm. It was really nice seeing you again. You look wonderful as usual. Rebecca: Thanks, Dave. I’ll speak to you later. Bye!


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pages 121-130

General Revision

16min
pages 116-120

Word formation: privative prefixes and suffixes

4min
pages 114-115

Collocations

9min
pages 98-100

Subject and object questions

4min
pages 87-88

Word order: direct / indirect object; position of other clauses

4min
pages 85-86

Linking words (2

6min
pages 83-84

Verb patterns

8min
pages 67-70

Reported speech (2): other reporting verbs

5min
pages 74-75

Linking words (1

7min
pages 80-82

The passive (2

4min
pages 63-64

Causatives

4min
pages 65-66

The passive (1

4min
pages 61-62

an, zero article a theArticles

5min
pages 33-34

if only I wish

6min
pages 59-60

Comparatives and superlatives (2

9min
pages 41-44

Quantifiers

10min
pages 35-38

Duration form: Present perfect continuous or Present perfect simple

7min
pages 14-16

Adverbs: formation and position in a clause

8min
pages 29-32

Present perfect simple; Present perfect simple or Past simple

5min
pages 12-13

Future continuous; Future perfect

7min
pages 24-26
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