6. Pronunciation

 Write these words in the correct row according to their pronunciation.

core fare her law

pair play pour raw

sir square they they're

/ɜ:/ ………………………………………

were

/ɔ:/ ………………………………………

wore

/eə:/ ………………………………………

where

/eı:/ ………………………………………

weigh

 Write S or Z next to the following words depending on how the s is pronounced, e.g. plays Z house S

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

absolute …………… advertise ………….. analyse …………… answer …………… appraise …………… bonus …………… browse ……………

8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

busy ……………. earnings ……………. enclose ……………. lease ……………. means ……………. opposite ……………. pleasant …………….

15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

praise ……………. purpose ……………. release ……………. reserve ……………. resource ……………. towards …………….

7. Education word search

In the word search are 23 subjects studied at college and university. You only need to work in three directions: left to right, diagonally top left to bottom right, and top to bottom. Can you find them all?

Of the subjects you found in the word search, which do you find:

• most interesting?

• most boring?

• most useful for the 21st century?

• least useful?

4. Numbers

1. The Story of numbers

Look at the pictures of the ancient writing systems. Match the captions below with the pictures.

1. B abylonian cuneiform writing: a big advance on the sticks and stones used by primitive man.

2. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic system: a purely additive system.

3. Ancient Greek: numbers consisted of letters of the alphabet plus three symbols indicated by asterisks here.

4. Ancient Chinese place system: a number symbol took on different values according to the place it occupied in the written number.

5. Tenth century Arabic numerals: system originated in India, adopted by Arabs and then spread to Europe. By the fifteenth century, numbers had their current form.

6. Maya 20-base system: this enabled Mayans to create the most accurate calendars in pre-Hispanic America. Unlike most other civilizations they had a zero, represented by a kind of shell.

7 Roman letter system: if a number was smaller than the number that followed it, it was subtracted from the second number; if it was as large or larger than the following number, the second number was added to the first.