Task 8 Fill in the gaps by changing the word in brackets. Write your answers in the grid below. The Environment: Our Responsibility

These days it is …(0) impossible……….. ( possible) to open a newspaper without reading about the damage we are doing to the environment. The earth is being ……69………… (threat). And the future looks …70……. (horror). What can each of us do?

We cannot clean up our ……71…….. (pollute) rivers and seas overnight. Nor can we stop the …72………….(appear) of plants and animals. But we can stop adding to the problem while ……73………….(science) search for answers and laws are passed in nature’s …74………… (defend). It may not be so easy to change your lifestyle and habits ……75………… (complete) but some steps are easy to take: cut down the amount of …76……….. (drive) you do or use as little plastic as possible. It is also easy to save energy, which also reduces ……77………… (house) bills.

We must all make a personal ………78…………(decide) to work for the future of our planet if we want to …79………. (sure) a better world for our grandchildren.

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Task 9

Fill in the gaps by ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the grid below.

The Origin of Rugby Football

The modern (0) …..game…… of rugby originated in 1823 at Rugby School in England. During a game of football, a boy called William Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it instead (80) ……………… kicking it.

This new way of playing football soon became very popular and started to be played in schools across the country. (81)…….……. first, this new game was very disorganized and had very few rules. There was no (82)……………. to the number of players, and ‘hacking’ or kicking other players, was acceptable. Rugby School published (83) ……………. own set of rules in 1846 for rugby football, but elsewhere, different types of ‘football’ were played and the rules varied from school (84) ……………to school.

The Football Association was set up in 1863 to come up with a standard set of rules for football. They outlawed this new style of football that had come to be (85)…………. as rugby, and decided on eleven players on each team, a round ball and standard goalposts with a net. Soon the new rules became accepted throughout England. The Rugby Football Union followed in 1871 and their rules were based (86)…………………. those developed at Rugby School – that is, fifteen (87)……………… on each team, an oval ball and ‘H’ shaped goalposts. The ball may (88)…………….. kicked, carried or thrown but only passed backwards and tackling is allowed.

More than a century later, the games of football and rugby are (89)…………. played according to these rules and they (90)…………… become international sports. The Football Association and the rugby Football Union are known and respected worldwide. Who could have imagined that one boy’s actions on a school playing field all those years ago would have had such consequences?

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