189175

a) Joe was absent most of the time

.4

a)

Have you

done

exercise 3 yet?

b)

I can't come this afternoon. I'm

an English exam.

c)

Jack has

very well this term.

d)

I'm afraid that you haven't

any progress.

e)

Sue didn't know the answer, so she

a guess.

f)

You all look tired. Let's

a break.

g)

This is a good composition, but you have

a lot of errors.

h)

I think you should

yourself more seriously.

i)

The teacher gave a lecture, and the class

notes.

j)

Paul finds maths difficult, but he

his best.

Learning how to learn

There is usually one important (1)

C

missing from

most school

(2)

Very few students are (3)

how to organize their

learning, and how to (4)

the best use of their time. Let's take some

simple (5)

Do you know how to (6)

up words in a

dictionary, and do you understand all the (7)

the

dictionary

contains? Can you (8)

notes quickly, and can you understand

them (9)

? For some reason, many schools give learners no

(10)

with these matters. Teachers ask students to (11)

pages from books, or tell them to write ten pages, but don't explain

(12)

to do it. Learning by (13)

can be useful, but it is

important to have a genuine (14)

of a subject. You can

(15)

a lot of time memorizing books, without understanding

anything about the subject!

1)

A theme

B book

C subject

D mark

2)

A agendas

B timetables

C terms

D organizations

3)

A taught

B learnt

C educated

D graduated

4)

A take

B give

C get

D make

5)

A sentences

B results

C rules

D examples

6)

A find

B look

C research

D get

7)

A information

B advise

C subjects

D themes

8)

A do

B send

C make

D revise

9)

A after

B afterwards

C lastly

D at last

10)

A teaching

B ability

C instruction

D help

11)

A concentrate

B remind

C forget

D memorize

12)

A how

B what

C why

D it

13)

A the way

B heart

C now

D law

14)

A information

B success

C understanding

D attention

15)

A pass

B waste

C tell

D use

a)

I travelled to Scotland on the

overnight

train and slept all the way.

b)

You're always breaking things! Why are you so

?

c) Jane knows a lot of French words, but she tends to

them.

d)

We all believe in

between the people of different nations.

e)

Bad weather caused the

of nearly all the football

programme.

f)

George was very

with the service at the hotel.

g)

We live in a flat on the

of London.

h)

Patsy thought the shop assistant had

her.

i)

David was tired of being a/an

so he started his own

company.

j)

The government is providing more money to help

people.

a) I could hear the sound of gun

fire

coming from the main square.

d) You look awful. Why don't you have a hair

?

i)

I could hear the sound of foot

Someone was coming!

j)

At one end of the room is a lovely old stone fire

Evening classes

Recently I decided to go to evening classes twice a

week. During the day I work in a (1)

.secretarial

agency

SECRETARY

as a telephonist. It is not a very interesting (2)

OCCUPY

and I get bored. I also got tired of coming home

every evening, putting a (3)

meal in the oven

FREEZE

and then watching TV. So I decided to take up (4)

CARPENTER

as a hobby. Perhaps I should give you an (5)

for

EXPLAIN

my choice. Learning a skill is a good (6)

to the

SOLVE

problem of boring work. Also, I felt I was a (7)

FAIL

because any time I tried to put up a shelf, for example,

it always fell down! Now I am quite a (8)

wood-

SUCCESS

worker! I am working on the (9)

of some

CONSTRUCT

furniture at the moment. And although there are only

two other girls in the class, I don't feel any (10)

EMBARRASS

I've turned out to be the best student in the class!

a)

Those children next door are

making

a lot of noise.

b)

I don't really

like going out this evening.

c)

You don't have to hurry. You can

your time.

d) Armstrong was the first person to

foot on the Moon.

e)

The director

us permission to park our motorbikes here.

f)

Can you

me a favour? I need some help with the garden.

g)

I can't talk now. I'm just

lunch.

h) When something goes wrong, people always

the blame on

me!

i)

Tom has just

in love yet again!

j)

I would like to

your attention to these instructions.

a) The forest outside the town started burning last night.

CAUGHT

b)

TEARS

c)

DO

DECISION

e)

TAKE

f)

TOUCH

g)

GAVE

h)

HEAD

i)

LET

j)

STANDS

a)

Dick was very tired and suffering from

over

work.

b)

We couldn't see the magician! He had become

visible.

c)

I could only cross the road by going down a

way.

d)

Nobody believed what Mary wrote in her

biography.

e)

Let me introduce you to Janet, my

-wife.

f)

What he said was not clear. In fact it was rather

leading.

g)

Unfortunately our football team lost in the

-final.

h)

Mr Smith regrets that he is

able to accept your invitation.

i)

This is a good train, it goes to Manchester

-stop.

j)

Oh bother, my pencil sharpener has

appeared again.

a)

Carol and Andy have just moved into a new ...neighbour...hood.

b)

My new

er is paying me a much higher salary.

c)

The local council have decided to

en the main road.

d) Jerry picked up a

ful of the money and smiled.

e)

I'm a terrible card player. I'm really

less.

f)

It's a kind of blue colour, but a bit

ish too.

g)

Bill now works in

ship with two other architects.

h)

Don't drink from the stream. You don't know if the water is

able.

i)

Most people say that they believe in the

ity of men and

women.

j)

Doctors have proved that smoking is

ful.