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Likes and dislikes

_I) a) Match beginnings of sentences l-8 to endings a)-h).

1 I'm very i ntcre tcd .. L.

2 I'm quite ........

3 I don't ...............

4 I don't Iike going ...............

s Tidying u p my house ...............

6 I think lie-i ns . ...........

7 I'm not very keen .

8 lcan't sta nd ...............

9 le njoy havi ng ...............

a) keen on joi ning 111y loca l gym.

b) mind going food shopping.

Positive and negative verb forms, words and phrases ED

1. Read Martins opinion of computers and fill in the gaps. Choose a), b) or c).

There aren't many t hi ngs I ¹ • •Q.on.'tfik... i n life, but compu ters d rive me

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c) working at weekends.

crazy. Of cou rse, everyone

• . ...••••••••••• they are a wonderful invention

d) a qu iet n igh t in .

e) i n working abroad .

f} to t he den t ist at al l.

and we've got one at home fo r the c h i ld ren . Both of them ³•••••••••••••••••

a com puter si nce t hey ⁴ •••.. •••••• ••• you ng a nd t hey hardly ever

g) d rives me crnz)'

⁵••....•.......•.....•.... a ny problems. But when I⁶

••..••.....•...•.. to send a n email

h) on takeawa y food.

i) al th e weekends a rc wonderful.

b) Match t he senten ces in 1a)

or use the I nternet , it never works properly. I⁷.......................... excuses -

Iknow i t"s 111)' problem ra th er tha n t h e com puter's. None of my friends

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like compmers so maybe it

•••••..•••••..••••.•••. .. somet hi ng to do wit h ou r age .

A phrases to say you l i ke som et hi n g:

...1... ' ..... ' ...... ' .

B phrases to say somet hing is OK :

c phrases to say you don't like somet hing:

Idon't think we'll ever u ndersta nd t hem.

¹ a) 'm not liking @ don't like ^c) didn't like

2. a) says b) said ^c) is saying

3. a) a re usi ng b) USC c) have u sed

4 a) have been b) a re c) were

5. a) have b) had c) a rc ha\'i ng

6. a) tried b) 'm t ryi ng ^c) t ry

haven 't made b) d idn't make c) ·m n o1 ma ki ng

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8 a) has been b) was c) ^·s

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Now read Diane's opi nion of com puters and fill in the ga ps with the correct forrn of the verhs

in brackeK Use t he Present Simple, Present

Cont i nuous, Past Simple or Present Perfect Simple.

I think compu ters a re amazi ng. We ¹ .'.v.h.Q... (have) one i n ou r family for almost 20 years - si nce I

................................ (be) about I 2. At that t ime

Make these sentences positive or negat ive hy changing the underlined words.

I hardly ever send emails from home.

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2 He t hi n ks t he com pu ter's got a vi rus .

3. I u nderstood everyt hi ng he said.

3. \Ve never used our computer to do serious things.

3. There aren't many compu ters at my school.

3. Joe's repaired my laptop.

7 None of my colleagues can type quickly.

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we ³..... .. . ............................. (not use) it for anyt hing serious - no one did. My sister and I usually played games on it. Then a t university l always

......................................... (wri te) my essays on i t a nd I

8. Neit her of our parents ca n use computers .

8. He works with computers all day so he doesn't need

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soon realised there arc lots of t hings a computer ca n help wit h. Si nce then I ⁵ .................... ........... . (not be able to) leave i t alone! All of my friends

⁶ . ............................ (call) me wi th thei r compu ter problems . I ⁷ ....... . ^{(not get)}

paid or anything - I just do i t as a favour. I

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one at home.

8. We aren't using the latest softwa re.

Review: verb forms

.................. ........... (hel p) two of my friends with

t heir com pu ters at t he momelll - t hey're broken. Neither of t hem know a nythi ng abom com puters, but they k now how to take me out for a meal!

Match these phrases i n bold in 2 with their opposi tes in bold in 3.

1 There aren't many .Jhere..a.r._/QJ$..9/..

2 everyone

3 Bot h of t hem

4 hard ly ever

5. never

6. None of

(1' Correct the mistake in each sentence.

drive

1 My paren ts drWes me crazy at times.

2. I'm goi ng swimming about t hree ti mes a week.

3. Who does works wi t h you?

4. How many cou n t ries have you gone to? s I n the past I walk to school.

6 l am t hink you are correct.

7 I'm playing a lot of tennis in my free t ime.

8. I live in London for three years and I love it.

9. I've been to Brazil last yea r.

10. Who does they work wit h?

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"Read the sentences. Fill in the puzzle wi th adject ives to descri be how t he peop le are feeling.

1 She works reall y ha rd , bu t sh e can't get promotion.

2 He's forgotten his best friend's birt hday.

3 She's got her d riving test this afternoon.

4 He's just come back from a long h oliday.

s He d id n't get t he bi rt hday presen1 he wa n ted.

6 Th ey don't u nderstand t he exercise.

7 Thei r son got t he job' he was a pplying for.

8 She hasn't got time to do everythi ng she needs to do.

Reading: prepositions with adjectives ml

f) a) Read t h e article and ch oose t he correct preposi tion s.

The funniest jokes in the world?

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b) Are t hese sent ences t rue (T), false (f ) or the text doesn't say (DS)?

1 ITJ The ex peri menL used the Internet.

A recent experiment in the UK attempted to discover the world's funniest jok es.Dr Richard Wiseman from the University of Hertfordshire invited people from an over the world to send in their funniest jokes and rate* the jokes sent in by other people. In the year of the experiment, the website received over 40,000 jokes and 2 million ratings*!

The experi men t showed ma n y things a bou t wha t d ifferen t na tiona li ties find fun ny. Ma ny Eu ropean countries, such as France a nd Den ma rk, preferred jokes about th i ngs we normally worry 16boiiftwithlof - for exa m ple, d ill ness a nd ma rriage. America ns and Canadia ns liked jokes where someone was better

²in/of/at something than someone else. Germans, in particular, seem

to be keen ³at/ on/about jokes. Overall th ey gave jokes the highest

scores.

Of cou rse, there is a serious reason for the research. Dr Wiseman is interested ⁴in/onlat how we comm u nica te. And h u mou r a nd

He said the popular jokes seem to have three elements: a stressful situa tion, we feel superior to someone i n the joke and we are

surprised ⁶of/by/in something in

the joke. Ma ny of t he jokes contained all three elemen ts. For exa mple, here is one of the most popula r jokes:

Two men areplaying golf one da_y. While they areplaying they see a

funeral procession *passing along the road nearby. One of the golfers stops, takes his cap off his head and closes his eyes. Hisfriend says: "Wow, that is the nicest, sweetest thin/!, I have ever seen. You really are a kind man. " Thefirst man answers: "Yeah, well,

we were marriedfar 35)'ears."

2. DThe ex peri men t lasted

12 mont hs.

2. D The experiment only involved Europeans.

4 DThe ex perimen t was just

for fu n.

5. DFrench people gene rall y fou nd jokes less fu n ny tha n Dan ish people.

6. D Germa n people genera lly

fou nd jokes fu n nie r than ot h er na tionali ties.

7 D Dr Wiseman felt t h e

experi men t wa s unsuccessful.

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laughing are important parts of communication. Dr Wiseman was very pleased ⁵oflwith/at the results.

*rare = give somethi ng a score (out of t en . for exa m ple)

* rating = t he score you give somethi ng

*f 1111cral procession = 1he line of people t a ki ng ,1 dead bod y on i Ls las1 jou rney