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UNIT 2: PLACES

1) Complete the text with the antonyms of the words in brackets.

A new ghost town in Vancouver?
Vancouver is a two-million city in Canada and a very 1____________ (unpopular) tourist destination. But
researchers are saying that some parts of the city might soon become ghost towns. A recent study has
revealed that almost 15% of apartments in Coal Harbour, a 2____________ (old) neighbourhood in
Vancouver’s centre, are 3____________ (crowded). The area is very 4____________ (messy) and
5____________ (dangerous), with glass high-rise towers and 6____________ (narrow) streets. The harbour
is always 7____________ (quiet) and full of people. There are lots of 8____________ (dirty) cafés and
restaurants, where people can spend their afternoons. So why are the apartment buildings empty? Many say
it’s because of the high cost of real estate, and local people just can’t afford to live there. Will this area turn
into another ghost town? Only time will tell.

2) Complete the people’s comments with the names of places in a town.

1. ‘I go to the ________________ after school to do my homework. It’s quiet there and I can borrow any
book I want.’
2. ‘My favourite place in town is the ________________ . I come here every Saturday with my dad. We’ve
already been to all the matches this season.’
3. ‘Last weekend I went to a ________________ for the first time. We saw a famous opera singer.’
4. ‘My friends and I love going to the ________________ , especially when it rains. We either play
basketball or go swimming in the large, indoor pool.’
5. ‘When I finish school, I want to go to ________________ . My dream is to get a degree in science.’
6. ‘My dad works at the ________________ . He sells train tickets.’
7. ‘I’d love to go to a ________________ , but I’m too young at the moment. I think I would win a lot of
money.’
8. ‘My friend had an accident and had to stay in ________________ for three days.’

3) Put the words in exercise 2 into the correct category 1–5.

1. Sports: ________________ , ________________
2. Education: ________________
3. Services: ________________ , ________________
4. Entertainment: ________________ , ________________
5. Transport: ________________

4) Complete sentence b so that it has a similar meaning to sentence a. Use the words in brackets in the correct
form and any other words that you may need.
A. Europeans named a lot of the places in Australia after places they came from.

A lot of the place names in Australia were ________________________________ places Europeans came from.
(borrow)

B. Visiting different places can teach us a lot about a country’s history.

We can ________________________________ visiting different places. (learn)

C. Frankie took three hours to arrive.

We ________________________________ Frankie for three hours. (wait)

D. Many people around the world want a better future.

Many people around the world ________________________________ a better future. (hope)

E. You must be careful when you travel alone in the Outback!

They ________________________________ travelling alone in the Outback. (warn)

F. Amy had a terrible accident when she was trying to sail around the world.

A terrible accident ________________________________ when she was trying to sail around the world. (happen)

5) Circle the correct answers.

A. In 1997, Mr Seiji Kaya started / was starting the Small Kindness Movement.
B. Where did you find / were you finding the wallet?
C. I walked / was walking in the park with my friends, when a stranger gave / was giving me some flowers.
D. I was in a shop and I wanted / was wanting to pay for a bottle of water, but I realized / was realizing that I
didn’t have / wasn’t having any money. A lovely lady behind me paid / was paying for my water!

6) Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous tense.
In December 1990, Jeri Cox Chastain who 1________________________ (work) at a hospital in South
Carolina at the time, 2________________________ (leave) her office to get something to eat. When she
returned, she 3________________________ (notice) that her wallet 4________________________ (be)
missing. Someone probably 5________________________ (come) in and 6________________________
(take) it while she 7________________________ (get) her lunch. ‘I just assumed it was thrown in a dumpster
somewhere’, she said.
But a few days ago, Jeri 8________________________ (receive) a call from the police saying that someone
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________________________ (return) her wallet. The money 10________________________ (not / be)
there, but the wallet still contained all her credit cards and a photo of her son.

7) Circle the correct answers.

1. Sandwich, Massachusetts, got its name when / while the first settlers arrived in the 1630s. It wasn’t
named after their love of sandwiches, but after the seaport of Sandwich, Kent, England.
2. When / While a farmer was travelling through a small town in Florida, he noticed that local residents
used eggs to buy goods in the local shop. This is why the town is called Two Egg.
3. There are many stories about why a small fishing village in Michigan is called Hell, but the most popular
one is about two German travellers. When / As they arrived in the town, they said that it was ‘So shoene
und hell’ (a bright and beautiful day). When / While the locals heard this, they decided to name it Hell.
4. While / When a group of convicts escaped from prison in 1871, they got into a conflict with a group of
lawman. As / When they were fighting, a lot of people lost their lives. This is where Convict Lake in
California got its name from.

UNIT 3: CHOICES

1) Circle the correct answers.

Edible packaging
Imagine you can drink a glass of cola and then 1package / produce / eat the bottle just like any other
item of food. Not possible? Well, edible packaging might soon be a reality. In the UK, people 2grow /
throw away / refrigerate 6.6m tonnes of food and drink packaging every year. One company is
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recycling / producing / packaging WikiCells, a sort of balloon that keeps liquids inside, but that you can
later eat. You might not even have to 4recycle / eat / refrigerate your drinks to keep them cold. This also
means that there won’t be any need to 5grow / transport / recycle all the paper and plastic that comes
with food packaging.

2) Complete the text.

Help the planet and become eco-1____________ !

 1. Reduce food 2____________ and stop global 3____________ by buying fruit and vegetables from
local farmers.
2. Read labels on the things that you buy to check if any of the packaging can be taken to a
4____________ centre. Do the same with other things that can be reused. Take the things that can’t
be reused to the 5____________ dump.
3. Reduce your 6____________ footprint by walking or cycling, instead of taking the bus or driving. This
will also help to reduce the amount of 7____________ gases released into the air.
4. Use energy-8____________ light bulbs and other equipment to save power.

3) Match the containers 1–6 to the correct food items A–F.

1. jar A water, vinegar
2. tube B milk, eggs
3. packet C crisps, biscuits
4. bottle D toothpaste, cream
5. box E jam, coffee
6. carton F tissues, chocolates

4) Complete the sentences with phrases in exercise 3.

1. I can’t open the __________________ and there is nothing else to put on my sandwich!
2. Can you bring something sweet for the party, but not chocolate? How about a __________________ ?
3. I don’t like how this feels on my teeth. Could you get a different __________________ ?
4. Don’t forget to bring a __________________ to the fitness class. Drinking during exercise is very
important.
5. Fiona was very upset and was crying all day. She used a whole __________________ .
6. Craig dropped the __________________ and all of them broke. There was nothing to make omelettes
with.

5) Match sentences 1–6 to a–f. Then complete the missing indefinite pronouns or adverbs.
1. Are there any vending machines in your city? ______
2. I’m really hungry. ______
3. Can you find the takeaway menu? ______
4. Do you want me to buy anything when I go to the shop? ______
5. Who gave you all these sweets? ______
6. What’s for dinner? ______
a. No, but I know it’s here __________________.
b. __________________. I didn’t cook today.
c. Yes, there are so many it feels like they are __________________!
d. It was __________________ I don’t know.
e. No, we have __________________.
f. Did you have __________________ to eat today?

6) Circle the correct answers.

Kitchen by Erik Klein Wolterink

Kitchens differ from house to house, family to family. And Dutch photographer Erik Klein Wolterink wanted to show
this in his new project Keuken (Kitchen). He opened 1any / a lot of / much cupboards, drawers and fridges and took
photos of everything he saw.

So, 2how much / how many / any differences were there between the kitchens? Well, they all look very similar on
the outside, but every kitchen has 3some / much / any things that represent the people that live there. A mother
with African roots has a plastic water bottle filled with 4a few / a little / many palm oil. A family with young children
has 5a lot of / much / many jars of Nutella, A group of female students has a very clean kitchen and just 6a little / a
lot of / a few food items. A kitchen can show just how different we all are.

7) Complete the text with who, which, when, where and whose.

Cinema snack

When you walk into a cinema, you can smell it right away. It’s the food 1____________ you have to eat during a film.
It’s in every cinema in almost every country ... Popcorn! 1885 is the year 2____________ the first mobile popping
machine was invented and it was Charles Cretors 3____________ did it. But it wasn’t the cinema 4____________
eating popcorn started. It first appeared at carnivals and other fairs, and it wasn’t until the 1910s 5____________ the
grand movie theatres became popular that popcorn made its way into the cinema. And then there were other
people 6____________ ideas changed the way we eat popcorn today: plain or with butter? Salted or sweet?
Standard or large ... ?

UNIT 4: MY SPACE

1) Complete the missing adjectives and adverbs.

Adjectives Adverbs
happy ________________
________________ unfortunately
helpful ________________
________________ easily
lucky ________________
surprising ________________

2) Complete the sentences with the words in exercise 1.

1. The children don’t mind helping their parents with the chores. They are very _______________ .
2. We were really looking forward to our holiday, but ________________ it rained all week.
3. Not ________________ , most teenagers don’t like sharing a room with their siblings.
4. Lyn Hymers would ________________ go back to the 1940s because she really enjoyed her life then, even
though it wasn’t always ________________ .
5. There was a fire in our neighbour’s house last night, but ________________ everyone is fine.

3) Complete the compound adjectives.

1. semi-________________ house
2. open-________________ home
3. old-________________ home
4. modern-________________ family
5. ________________-saving devices
6. two-________________ house

4) Match the words in exercise 3 to the comments below. There is one word that you do not need.
1. ‘The kitchen and living room are downstairs. The stairs take you upstairs where we have the bathroom and
three bedrooms.’ ________________
2. ‘Our neighbours kids keep banging on the walls. It’s so noisy!’ ________________
3. ‘Everything in my grandmother’s house is from the 1950s.’ ________________
4. ‘I love my dishwasher, washing machine and dryer. They save me so much time.’ ________________
5. ‘Our kitchen, dining room and living room are all in one area. There are no walls or doors separating them.’
________________

5) Complete the text.

Both our parents work full-time, so my brother and I do a lot of household 1________________ to help them.
We have to 2________________ our beds in the morning and 3________________ the floors in our rooms twice
 a week. My brother 4________________ the rubbish and I 5________________ the dishes. We both help to
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________________ the table before dinner. My parents 7________________ the ironing, but I help to
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________________ the washing machine.

6) Replace the phrases in brackets with phrasal verbs in the correct form.
1. The people in this neighbourhood have big houses and expensive cars. They like to ________________
(impress other people).
2. My mum ________________ (cares for) her garden – she’s very proud of it!
3. Before my parents bought our new house, they tried to ________________ (learn) everything about the
area.
4. My grandma ________________ (became an adult) in a tiny house in the country.
5. My family’s move to Australia ________________ (caused) many problems.

7) Complete the text with the comparative or superlative forms of the adjectives in brackets.

1_____________________ (important) room in our house is the living room. Here is where our family spends
most of our time together. It’s 2_____________________ (big) room, and also 3_____________________
(quiet), because it backs out on to the garden. It faces north, so it’s a bit 4_____________________ (dark) than
the other rooms in the house, but that makes it 5_____________________ (good) in the summer, because it
doesn’t get too hot. It’s also 6_____________________ (clean) room of all of them. But my favourite room is my
bedroom. It’s much 7_____________________ (small) than the living room, but it’s also
8_____________________ (bright).

8) Rewrite sentence b so that it has a similar meaning to sentence a.

1. My room is the same size as my sister’s room.

My room _______________________________________________ my sister’s room.

2. There aren’t any houses smaller than our house in our street.

Our house is _______________________________________________ in our street.

3. This house is too expensive for us.

This house is not _______________________________________________ for us.

4. The dishes aren’t clean enough, so I need to wash them again.

The dishes are ______________________________________ , so I need to wash them again.

5. Our school is closer to our new house than it was to our old house.

Our new school isn’t ______________________________________________ to our old house.

6. The streets around here are busier than the streets where we live.

The streets around here aren’t ________________________________________ where we live.

7. There is no other bed more comfortable than mine in our house

My bed is _______________________________________________ in our house.

8. The bathroom is colder than other rooms in the house.

The bathroom is not _______________________________________________ in the house.

 9) Circle the correct option.

The thinnest house in the world?

Imagine 1to live / living in a house that’s only 122cm wide. That’s not even wide enough for a double bed! But that
didn’t worry Polish architect Jerzy Szczesny who recently managed 2to build / building, what he claims to be, the
narrowest house in the world. Szczesny decided 3to design / designing the two-story house as part of an art project
headed by Etgar Keret, a famous writer and filmmaker.

The ground floor has a toilet, a kitchen with a table and chairs, and a sofa. Upstairs, there’s a small bed and another
table. And if you’d like 4to take / taking a shower, you can also do that.

The house is already on the tourist map and many people coming to Warsaw want 5to visit / visiting it. But they first
need 6to get / getting through a small hole to enter the building. So, if you don’t mind 7to be / being in narrow
spaces, I hope 8to see / seeing you there next time you’re in Warsaw.