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Communication Practice

1. Work in pairs. Choose any of the topics below and compare the two notions. Make sure you give at least three similarities and differences.

Living in the country – Living in a large city

Staying in a hotel – Camping or self-catering

Life in your country – Life in Britain

Tourism nowadays – Tourism ten years ago

Working in an office – Working in a factory

Learning English – Learning your language

The British sense of humour – Your country’s sense of humour

Travelling today – Travelling in the future

2. Ask you partner the quiz question, then count the Yes answers and summarize your partner’s image. How Ambitious Are You?

  1. Do you always take games and competitions seriously?

  2. Do you work hard at things that are important for your future?

  3. Do you do things better when someone is watching you?

  4. Do you feel happy when someone praises you for doing something well?

  5. If you had organized a trip or a party for your friends very carefully, would you get angry if something went wrong?

  6. In a swimming race with a friend who is younger than you, you know that you could easily win. Do you swim your fastest?

  7. If you do worse than a friend in a school test, do you tear up your test paper angrily?

  8. If a friend couldn’t do his or her homework, would you help willingly?

  9. Do you try to do everything as correctly as you can?

  10. If you were ill before an exam and had hardly done any work for it, would you try to avoid taking the exam?

If you have…

1 to 3 You are not very ambitious. People like you because of this, but you shouldn’t take things too lightly. Life is something competitive.

4 to 6You are ambitious and competitive, but your ambition does not rule your life.

7 to 10You are too ambitious. Don’t take all your activities so seriously. Try to relax and have some fun.

Writing Practice

I. This is a tape script of a radio programme about London. Unfortunately, the transmission was bad. Restore the script using the words from the box.

lovely most interesting faster more international

biggest happy cosmopolitan fastest dangerous

  1. London is one of the … cities in the world.

  2. It is also the … place I’ve ever visited.

  3. It looks particularly … on a sunny day and I usually feel … when I’m there.

  4. It’s a much … capital than Paris although it’s probably not as … as New York.

  5. It’s also less … than New York.

  6. London drivers seem to drive … than other British drivers, and taxi drivers perhaps drive … of all.

II. Write about the town that you come from or any other place you know well using the sentences in part a as a model.

III. Write these figures in words.

  1. We drove about 100 miles.

  2. He wants $1, 450 for the car.

  3. 16 May 1970

  4. Pay him $24,60 an hour.

  5. 30 November 2006

  6. The population of this city 2,350,000 people.

Achievement Test

I. Find the mistakes and correct them. If there are no mistakes, put a .

  1. She speaks French fluent.

  2. I think you behaved very cowardilly.

  3. Everyone says that he's now enormous rich.

  4. We'll never catch them up if you walk as slow as that.

  5. She turned to him astonishedly. 'I don't believe you," she said.

  6. Wearing a white shirt and new suit, he thought he looked really well.

  7. We produced five million of tractors last year.

  8. Chop the herbs finely and sprinkle them on top of the pasta.

  9. He stepped back and looked satisfiedly at the newly-painted door.

  10. He is the nineth child in the family.

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