UNIT 1

HOW WAS YOUR TRIP?

LESSON 1 VOCABULARY
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Complete the sentences. Underline the correct answers.

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1. Oh, no! It’s hailing / drizzling / humid. I’m glad my car is safe in the garage.
2. Our house got damaged / soaked / stuck during the storm.
3. My mother said they had some heavy rain in her part of the city earlier, but now it’s only
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freezing / drizzling / hailing.

4. Yesterday it was drizzling / overcast / pouring, and the streets were flooded.
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5. I forgot my umbrella, so when I left work I got sunburned / damaged / soaked in the rain.
6. I don’t like the weather here. Occasionally, it’s cool and dry, but most of the time it’s hot
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and freezing / humid / hailing.

7. Since it’s warm here most of the time, some people don’t have coats to wear when it’s
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humid / freezing / overcast.

8. My cousins live in a city where people’s cars often get stuck / soaked / overcast in
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the snow.
9. My part of the country is usually sunny instead of humid / freezing / overcast.
10. Even when it’s cloudy, I wear long sleeves and a hat so I won’t get sunburned /
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soaked / stuck.
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Complete the crossword puzzle.

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ACROSS
3. Cloudy, gray, skies make me
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feel relaxed.
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6. When there’s a light rain, it’s . 2

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7. Will you help me move my car?

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It got in the snow.
8. When frozen rain is falling,
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it’s . 5 6

10. Our house was by the flood.

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DOWN
1. The opposite of boiling is .
2. When a lot of rain comes down 8 9

quickly, it’s .
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4. Ouch! I got while I was at

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the beach.
5. Do you prefer dry places like
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the desert or places like the

jungle?
9. My shoes got in the rain.

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 LESSON 1 GRAMMAR

Complete each phone conversation with phrases from the box.

get sick get thirsty getting soaked

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getting sunburned getting tired got stuck

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1. A: Hi! It’s me. Are you home?

B: Yes, I just walked in. I in traffic. Where are you?
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A: At the bus stop.
B: I hope you have an umbrella.
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A: No, I don’t, and I’m !

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B: Oh, no! I hope you don’t . You just got over a cold.
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3.
A: I’ll be fine. But I’m of waiting for this bus.
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get lost get scared get wet

getting caught getting excited getting ready
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2. A: Are you for your trip?

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B: Yes, I’m in the middle of packing my suitcase. That’s my new suitcase—it’s bright
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orange, so it won’t among all the usual black bags.

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A: I bet you’re about seeing Paris for the first time.
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B: I can’t wait! I just wish Diana felt the same way about our trip, but she doesn’t like to fly.
A: Oh. Does she on planes?
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8.
B: Yes, I’m afraid so.
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Complete each conversation. Use words from the box and the correct form of get.

hotter  older  scared  worried
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1. A: What a beautiful day for the beach!

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B: It sure is. And it’s going to get hotter ,too.

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A: Is your little boy taking swimming lessons?
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B: Not yet. He’s afraid of the water. He when we go in.

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A: Well, I hope you aren’t about that. I think you can relax.
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My son was the same at that age, but he learned to love the water when
he .
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caught  colder  ready  warm
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2. A: You’re late. Did you in traffic?

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B: Yes, I did.
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A: How’s the weather? Is it ?

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B: Yes, it’s freezing outside!
A: I was just make some hot cocoa. Would you like some to
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warm you up?
B: Yes, please! But first I’m going to take a hot shower. That should help me
, too!
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 LESSON 2 VOCABULARY
Complete the sentences. Underline the correct answers.

1. The hippopotamus / lion / elephant at the zoo reminded Brian of his cat.
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2. The tarantula / bat / blue whale can swim thousands of miles every year.
3. The hippopotamus / snake / blue whale has a large body and short legs.
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4. Tarantulas / Bats / Snakes are the biggest kind of spider.

5. Lions / Elephants / Hippopotamuses have large ears that they can move to stay cool.
6. Even though they don’t have legs, some bats / tarantulas / snakes can move more than
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6 miles per hour.

7. Snakes / Tarantulas / Bats sleep during the day and fly at night.
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Complete the sentences. Underline the correct answers.

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1. The fierce / playful / adorable lion roared and showed its teeth before it attacked.
2. The hippopotamus can become adorable / playful / aggressive when another animal
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tries to hurt it.

3. When they’re young, lions are enormous / playful / aggressive like kittens.
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4. Sara’s dog had five fierce / aggressive / adorable puppies last week. I want one!
5. One of the puppies is so tiny / gorgeous / aggressive that you can hold him in
your hand.
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6. Elephants are enormous / tiny / playful and weigh up to 13,000 pounds.

7. I think that lion is fierce / gorgeous / aggressive because of the beautiful mane around
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its face.
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Complete the crossword puzzle.

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ACROSS
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3
3. very attractive and cute
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4. very large
6. ready and able to attack

DOWN
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1. very beautiful 4

2. active and wanting to have fun

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3. behaving in a way that shows it

wants to fight
5. very small
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 LESSON 2 GRAMMAR
Complete the conversation. Write so or such.

A: How are things in Florida?

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B: Great! It’s warm here. We played tennis this morning and had
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a good time.
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2.
A: Have you visited that wild animal theme park you talked about?

B: Yes! We went yesterday. It’s an amazing place. It was cool

3. 4.
to see the animals roaming around, just like in Africa. We learned a lot on our tour, too.
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Did you know that a hippopotamus can’t swim or even float?

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A: That is weird. I mean, it spends all its time in the water.

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B: I know. But that’s what our guide said. She had fascinating things to tell
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us. Like at the snake exhibit.

A: Ooooh, snakes are scary! I would skip that exhibit, I think.
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7.
B: Well, that would be too bad. They have a great collection of snakes there.
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Complete the paragraphs with so or such and the words in parentheses. Add a or an
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if necessary.
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1. Last summer, I went on a whale watch off the coast of Oregon. It was

such a great experience! We had a beautiful sunny day, and the water was
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1. (great)
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. It was day to be out on the water.

2. (calm) 3. (perfect)

Unfortunately, the boat was that I couldn’t get to the rail, but I
4. (crowded)
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was still able to get a good look at the whales. And we saw so many!
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2. Some friends of mine are planning a trip to Africa. I’d like to go with them, but it’s

going to be that I can’t, and I’m !

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5. (expensive) 6. (upset)

I’ve looked at their travel brochures and the website for the tour company. My friends
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are going to have time. They’ll probably come home with

7. (wonderful)

photos and stories that I’ll be even more jealous.

8. (great)
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 LESSON 3 VOCABULARY
Complete the sentences with words from the box.

collar deer field shelter

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crops endangered species hook soil

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1. I hurt my finger on the when I was fishing.

2. Some zoos have like Sumatran elephants that might not
exist anymore.
3. My grandfather grew several types of , such as corn and beans.
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4. As we walked in the forest, we saw a couple of walking among

the trees.
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5. During the storm, the animals tried to find .

6. Water and good are necessary for plants to grow.
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7. They planted the seeds out in the .

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8. The around the dog’s neck was too tight.

Complete the crossword puzzle.

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ACROSS
2. A farmer may grow a of corn, wheat, or
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1
vegetables.
3. Crops are grown in an area of land called a . 2

7. a place to protect people or animals from bad

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weather or danger
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DOWN
1. the substance in which plants grow; dirt
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4. species are a type of animal or plant that soon

might not exist anymore. 6
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5. a large wild animal that lives in forests and

eats plants
6. A narrow band called a is put around the neck
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of an animal.
8. a curved piece of metal used for catching fish
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 LESSON 3 GRAMMAR
Draw a line to match each main clause with the correct though, although, or even though clause.
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1. Efforts to protect the honeybee a. even though we’re working hard to
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must continue save them.

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2. Honeybees keep disappearing b. people continue to hunt them.

3. Though the elephant is my c. even though they are expensive.
favorite animal,
4. Although elephants are endangered, d. I have never seen one in the wild.
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2.
5. Though the farmers worked hard to e. he continues to experiment and learn.
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improve the soil,

6. Although the weather wasn’t great, f. he prefers to plow his fields with horses.
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7. Although the farmer owns a g. their crops were still poor.

modern tractor,
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8. Even though the farmer has been h. the crops did fairly well.
growing corn for many years,
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 LESSON 4 READING
READING SKILL Find the
Read the Reading Skill. Write the letter to match the questions main idea
from the interview with their main ideas.
The main idea is what a text
1. Question 1 (line 5) a. how animals deceive is about. When you can find
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attackers the main idea, it is easier to

2. Question 2 (line 13) b. how animals live in a understand the text. When
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you read an interview, look

cold winter
at the questions to find the
3. Question 3 (line 18) c. how animals keep safe main ideas.
from attack
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How Animals Protect Themselves by Jonathan Moran

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I recently saw a picture of an Arctic fox, an animal that is brown in summer and white in winter. The
white fur is a kind of self-protection—it makes the animal difficult to see in the snow. Then I started
wondering about what else animals do to protect themselves. So, I interviewed Kathy Grey, a biologist
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who works at the Fremont Zoo.

5 I’m interested in how animals protect themselves. For example, what are some things they do to survive
through a cold winter?
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Well, you probably know about bears—they eat a lot in the spring and
summer, and then they sleep through winter. But you may not know
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about the Alaskan wood frog. This frog can actually freeze up to
10 two-thirds of its body. For as long as seven months, it feels like a block of
ice—it’s completely still. But it’s not dead. When the weather warms up,
it comes back to life.
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That’s amazing. What about protection from attack? Lions have big
teeth and turtles have shells, but can you give me any more unusual examples?
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15 Well, one of the craziest examples is another frog—the hairy frog. It’s also called the horror frog because of
the frightening thing it does to protect itself. If this frog is attacked, it breaks its own toe bones and sticks the
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sharp points through its skin. Then it uses those sharp points like claws!

Wow! Frogs are such amazing creatures! Are there any other animals
that use tricks to protect themselves?
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their head. When another animal attacks the gecko, it may accidentally
bite the tail off instead of the head. And the gecko just runs away and
grows a new tail!

OK, well, let’s end with that interesting example! Thank you for talking to me today.
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Read the interview again. Circle the correct answers.

1. Why did the interviewer start wondering 3. Why is the hairy frog called the horror
about how animals protect themselves? frog?
a. He saw a picture of an Arctic fox. a. because it attacks with sharp teeth
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b. He heard about an interesting frog. b. because it sticks bones in its skin

c. He met a biologist from the c. because it is covered with hair
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Fremont Zoo. 4. What is unusual about the gecko’s tail?

2. Why would the wood frog’s leg break a. It falls off once a year.
off if you moved it?
b. Attackers cannot bite it off.
a. because its bones are thin
c. It looks like the gecko’s head.
b. because it’s frozen solid
c. because it can grow a new one

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 LESSON 5 WRITING
Read the online essay. Write the information from the box in the correct places.

I recommend that you go out to the meadow

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It’s cool in the shade of the tall pines

there are always a lot of people in the valley
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there are bears in the valley who will eat human food
there’s a three-mile trail to the top of Yosemite Falls
They put the sweet marshmallows on delicious crackers
You can relax at the bottom of a waterfall
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My favorite place in the world is Yosemite Valley, California. I go

there with my family every year, and if you are planning a trip, I definitely
recommend going in spring.
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When you are in the valley, there are giant mountains of solid stone
all around you. A green meadow covers part of the valley floor, and in
spring the dogwood trees are full of bright white flowers. Although
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_____________________________________________________, you can get away from the crowds with

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a short hike into the forest. _____________________________________________________, and I love the
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fresh scent of the trees. The soft pine needles are like a blanket under your feet.

The waterfalls are huge in spring because of the melting snow.

_____________________________________________________, listening to the crash and feeling the
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3.
cool drops of water on your face. Or if you like to hike,
_____________________________________________________. Watch out! It can make you a little dizzy
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to look down at the white water rushing into the valley.

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At night, kids cook marshmallows over the campfire.

_____________________________________________________ with chocolate to make a sticky treat.
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You have to be very careful about cleaning and putting the food away because
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_____________________________________________________. Once it gets really dark, it’s nice to walk

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a bit to get away from the noisy people and the smoky smell of the fires.
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_____________________________________________________ and look up at the millions of stars in the

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silent sky. You’ll be very glad you came.
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Read the Writing Skill. Read the essay again. Write the WRITING SKILL Use sensory words
bold words from the essay in the correct categories.
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Writers use sensory words to help

See Feel readers make pictures in their minds.
Use sensory words that describe
sights, sounds, feelings, tastes, and
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smells to make the reader “see” what

you see.
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Hear Smell Taste

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 UNIT 1 SELF-QUIZ

1 VOCABULARY
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Complete the sentences. Circle the correct answers.

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1. It’s outside. I had an umbrella, but I still got wet.

a. hailing b. pouring c. freezing d. drizzling
2. After staying out at the beach all day without any sunblock, she got .
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a. stuck b. soaked c. damaged d. sunburned

3. A lion can be very when it hunts other animals.
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a. tiny b. adorable c. enormous d. aggressive

4. A has eight hairy legs.
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a. bat b. tarantula c. blue whale d. hippopotamus

5. Corn is the only that the farmer grows.
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a. hill b. soil c. crop d. field

6. The rabbit ran into the to hide from the dog.
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a. hook b. collar c. shelter d. species

2 GRAMMAR
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Complete the paragraph with the correct form of get and the words in parentheses.
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On our trip, we on a mountain. It when we started

1. (lose) 2. (dark)
to walk down and we couldn’t see anything without a flashlight. Thankfully, we met a local
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person who guided us safely down.

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Complete the paragraph. Underline the correct answers.

Yesterday, we went to a great restaurant. The food was so / such delicious and the service
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was excellent. We had so / such a good time!

2.
Put the words in the correct order to make sentences with although or even though.
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1. Although / the car / is / Jake loves / old-fashioned, / it

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2. He will / still / mistakes / even though / be / popular / he / makes
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