Exercise 4. Order the words to make a sentence.

1. Appeal, their, of, case, Court, the, referred, was, to.

2. President, the, with, authority, supreme, resides.

3. Judge, case, the, another, remitted, before, was, hearing, for.

4. Court, the, Appeal, the, by, aside, verdict, was, set.

5. Hopes, band’s, the, rest, now, award, an, of, success, their, on.

6. Seekers, countries, asylum, are, out, shutting.

7. Saturday, protest, the, set, off, on.

8. Prime, the, scandal, the, Minister, off, shrugs.

9. Area, protesters, around, the, up, roadblocks, set.

10. Twist, to, ministers, foreign, their, deployed, countries, closing, the, in, votes, up, shore, and, arms, campaigns, the, of, moments.

Exercise 5. Replace phrasal verbs with verbs/phrases which are similar in meaning.

1. In 1959, an uprising erupted provoked by the fear that an invitation to the Dalai Lama extended by the Chinese garrison in Lhasa would result in his kidnapping or worse.

2. Mr. Delmulle said the suspects could have been targeting Pakistan or Afghanistan, ‘but it can’t be ruled out that Belgium or Europe could have been the target’.

3. About 50, 000 people were protesting in Conakry over rumours that Captain Camara intends to run for president of Guinea in an elections scheduled for January.

4. It is what you do when you are out of touch, out of ideas, and running out of time.

5. Two suicide bombers from Dagestan set off bombs in two Moscow subway trains.

6. Central bank head Slawomir Skrzypek said that Poland was not ready to set out on the path to the eurozone.

7. Support has been slipping away from the rebels, particularly after last month’s attack.

8. The NATO Secretary General has said the organization stands by its aim of eventually admitting Georgia and Ukraine as members.

9. Pope Benedict XVI stepped into the row, saying public officials must offer a strong moral example.

10. Fine Gael’s Michael Noonan said it would stave off vote, and help pass a crucial finance bill.

Section 10. Letters T, U, V, W, Z. [VIP Файлобмінник]

Exercise 1. Match each phrasal verb in the left-hand column with an appropriate meaning in the right-hand column.

1. take sb aback	a) to become involved in sth with sb
2. take sth away	b) to confront sb with sth
3. take over	c) to work together (with sb)
4. take to (a place)	d) to have sth in great numbers
5. tangle with sb	e) to prevent
6. tax sb with sth/doing sth	f) to make sb/sth weaker
7. team up (with sb)	g) to make a record of sth
8. tear sth down	h) to result
9. teem with sth	i) to deliver sb to the control of sb
10.track sb/sth down	j) to encourage sb to do sth
11.turn against sb	k) to use all of sth
12.turn sb/sth back	l) to make the start of sth
13.turn sth off	m) to elect sb to/to reject sb from
14.turn out	n) to approve sth
15.turn sb over to sb	o) to confirm a claim
16.urge sb on to sth	p) to make a speech less offensive
17.use sth up	q) to destroy sth completely
18.usher sth in	r) to approach
19.vote sb into/out of sth	s) to complete sth
20.vote sth through	t) to concentrate on sb/sth
21.vouch for sth	u) to shock/surprise sb
22.water sth down	v) to remove sth
23.ward off	w) to gain control
24.wear sb/sth down	x) to go away (to a place)
25.wipe sth out	y) to demolish sth
26.work around	z) to find sb/sth by searching
27.wrap sth up	ii) to stop being friendly towards sb
28.write sth up	iii) to return the way one has come
29.zero in on sb/sth	iiii) to stop sth

Exercise 2. Fill in the gaps.

1. Mr. Ahmadinejad spoke out hours after Mr. Obama, Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. Brown took _____ the stage in Pittsburgh- site of a G20 summit- to condemn the building of the new plant.

2. Poles have been somewhat taken _____by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s decision to personally oversee the investigation of the crash which killed all 96 people on board, tearing a hole in the Polish political, military and social elite.

3. The announcement is critical because it takes _____ a huge measure of uncertainty from the mind of any potential demonstrator.

4. Since Raul Castro took _____ the presidency, following his brother Fidel’s retirement due to ill health, EU policy has been to try and develop a dialogue with Cuba in the hope of influencing change.

5. In an emotional late- night address on state television the PM had sought to distance himself from the President and vowed to track him _____.

6. A flight from London to Moscow has been turned _____ towards the UK.

7. The ex-head of the Army has claimed that No 10 turned _____ a request to send up to 2, 000 more troops- a suggestion Downing Street has denied.

8. President Dmitry Medvedev vowed that those behind the attack would be tracked _____ and punished.

9. The multi- billion euro bailout of Greece may be one reason that voters have turned _____ the Chancellor.

10. Several Somali pirates turned _____ by the US and Germany are already facing legal action.

Exercise 3. Match the beginning of each sentence with its suitable ending.

1. Ford believes Geely has the potential to be a responsible future owner of Volvo and to take the business …

2. People staged fresh demonstrations in central Cairo, despite official warnings that anyone taking …

3. Baroness Ashton takes …

4. Mrs. Clinton went on to campaign for Mr. Obama as he took …

5. We can see Tibetans tearing …

6. Mr. Lavrov threw …

7. The International Maritime Bureau believes more effort should now be placed on tracking …

8. Frustration turned …

9. Part of the giant physics experiment was turned …

10. The top US diplomat for the Middle East wrapped …

a) … up a three-day visit in Tunis, rejecting speculation that the United States was involved in Mr. Ben Ali’s removal.

b) … forward while preserving its core values and independence.

c) … off for the weekend while engineers probed a magnet failure.

d) … to the streets would be prosecuted

e) … into violence when demonstrators smashed windows in the parliament building in Vilnius.

f) … over from EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who is leaving his post after 10 years in the role.

g) … down these mother ships.

h) … on Republican Senator John McCain in the race for the White House.

i) … down a red Chinese flag, and raising the banned Tibetan national flag, two snow lions flanked by the Himalayan mountains.

j) … down a challenge to the international community by saying that discussions on security in the Caucasus were impossible without the two breakaway regions.