Q1-Fill in the gaps with these words..
visit have chat have do meet up tidy up go to do have go out
1. visit relatives
2. meet up with friends
3. have a lie-in
4. go to concerts/gigs/festivals
5. chat to friends online
6. tidy up the house/the flat
7. go to museums/art galleries
8. do exercise
9. have a quiet night in
10. do yoga
11. have people round for dinner
12. go out for a drink
Q1 Choose the correct words.
1. go to/meet up wth friends
2. do/go exercise
3. go/visit relatives
4. go out/have for a drink
5. have/do a lie-in
6. go out/go to gigs
7. meet up/tidy up the flat
8. meet/chat to friends online
9. have/visit a quiet night in
10. do/go yoga
11. go to/go out art galleries
12. have/visit people round for dinner
Q2 Fill in the gaps with these words.
love right awful drive all nerves on in
mind stand
1. I really love eating out.
2. I'm very interested art.
3. I'm not very keen sport.
4. I think tennis is all .
5. Call centres me crazy.
6. I don't like flying at .
7. I don't _ getting up early.
8. I really can't sitting in traffic jams.
9. I think most reality TV programmes are __
10. Waiting in queues really gets on my .
Q3 Choose the correct prepositions .
1. I'm good by / at
2. I'm frightened with/of .. .
3. I'm happy by/with ...
4. I'm annoyed at/from ...
5. I'm fed up for/with ...
6. I'm bored with/about ...
7. I'm surprised by/on ...
8. I'm nervous about/by ...
9. I'm angry with/for ...
10. I'm upset from/about ...
11. I'm bad for/at ...
12. I'm worried of/about ...
Q4 Write question tags to check information about the people in the photo.
1. Lisa and Daniel aren't married, are they ?
2. Charlie and Daniel haven't met before, ?
3. Rebecca and Lisa live in the same village, ?
4. Charlie's lived there for about three years, ?
5. Daniel left London last year, ?
6. Daniel and Lisa shared a flat at university, ?
7. Charlie works for a holiday company, ?
8. Rebecca isn't very keen on football, ?
9. Harry is Charlie and Rebecca's son, _ ?
10. Daniel hasn't got any children, ?
Q5 Look at these verbs. Do they usually describe activities (A) or states (S)? Do we usually use state verbs in the
Present Continuous?
be S agree own believe watch A talk seem spend eat
taste prefer know learn buy understand cook remember
take need happen love
Answer
Activities: talk, spend, eat, learn, buy, cook, take, happen.
States: seem, agree, taste, prefer, know, own, understand, remember, believe, need, love.
Typical activity verbs are: watch, talk,
spend, eat, learn, buy, cook, take,
happen
Q6 Complete the table with the strong adjectives in pink in the article. What other strong adjectives do you know
that mean 'very good'?
Q7 Write the words in the correct places in these tables
Q8 Look at the suffixes of these words. Are they adjectives (A) or nouns (N)?
knowledgeable A sadness N traditional noisy
confidence adventurous activity musical
possibility honesty fashionable famous
touristy importance laziness modesty
Q9 Choose the correct meanings, a or b. What information in the article helped you decide?
Q10 Look at the sentences in 3a again. Choose the correct words/ phrases in these rules.
1. After tend to we use the infinitive/verb+ing.
2. Rather, quite, not very and a bit usually come before/after an adjective.
3. We often put generally speaking and on the whole at the beginning/end of a sentence.
1. Generally speaking, old people tend to watch rather a lot of TV.
2. Traffic jams can be a bit annoying at times.
3. Perhaps some neighbours can be a bit noisy.
4. On the whole, my friends aren’t very reliable.
5. Generally speaking, most young people tend to drive a bit fast.
6. Some teenage boys can be quite aggressive at times.
7. On the whole, most soap operas tend to be rather boring.
8. Watching the news can be a bit depressing at times.
9. My grandfather tends to be quite stubborn.
Q11- Look at the verbs in bold in the article. Underline the verb form that follows them. Then write the infinitive
form of the verbs in bold in the table .
2 to look 3 showing
4 to be 5 lend 6 borrowing
7 to rent 8 living 9 to pay
Q12- Look again at the phrases in 3a. Then choose the correct words in these rules .
• We often use stuff to talk about countable/ uncountable nouns we don't know the name of .
EX. It’s stuff for getting marks off your clothes.
• After It's a thing for ... and It's stuff for ... we use the infinitive/verb+ing .
EX. It’s a thing for making soup
• After You use it/them ... we use verb+ing the infinitive with to
EX. You use them to mend your clothes.
Q13- Write conversations between Katharina (K) and a sales assistant (S) from these prompts.
Q14- Sleep.
1. fall asleep: start sleeping. Also: be asleep
2. wake up stop sleeping
3. get to sleep start sleeping, often with some difficulty
4. get back to sleep start sleeping again after you have woken up
5. be wide awake be completely awake
6. be fast asleep be completely asleep
7. snore breathe in a noisy way when you are sleeping.
8. have trouble sleeping find it difficult to sleep well:
9. have insomnia not be able to get to sleep:
10. take a sleeping pill take a pill that helps you sleep
11. have a dream have stories and pictures in your head while you are sleeping
12. have a nightmare have a frightening dream.
13. be a light/heavy sleeper be someone who wakes up easily/doesn't wake up easily:
14. have a nap have a short sleep in the day: Also: take a nap
Q15- ACTIVITY AND STATE VERBS.
Q16- Phrasal verbs (2) 58 p40
1. clear sth out tidy a room, cupboard, etc. and get rid of the things in it that you don't want any more:
2. sort sth out arrange or organise things that are not in order or are untidy:
3. give sth away give something to someone without asking for money
4. throw sth away or throw sth out put something in the rubbish bin that you don't want any more
5. take sth out remove something from a place
6. tidy (sth) up make a room or place tidy by putting things back in the place where you usually keep them
7. put sth away put something in the place where you usually keep it
8. come back return to a place
9. go through sth carefully look at things to find something or to see if you want to keep them
Q17 make and do 6A p46
Q18 Fill in the gaps with the correct reflexive pronoun .
1. I made my daughter's jumper myself
2. My son likes playing by________
3. We want to educate our children _________
4. Deborah looks after three children by ___________
5. I usually cut the kids' hair____________
6. The party was great. All the kids enjoyed _________
2 himself 3 ourselves 4 herself
2 themselves 3 herself 4
5 myself 6 themselves yourself 5 himself 6
ourselves 7 yourselves
