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yf Ad 1 COMMUNICATION Vocabulary Complete the table. Use the Mi Parts of speech ictionary to help you with new words. Then complete the sentences below, using words from the table. noun verb | adjective adverb .£WeeeE.... | succeed | .successfiel.. | successfully. despair sme ambition —— | rapid j return : — bitterly exhausted disaster ~ sadness sadden | ———— | famous seme injure breath 1 He ...jured.... his leg playing football. 2 It was starting to rain so they walked more and then ran back to the car. 3 Tt was with great ........ that I heard that my uncle had died. 4 Laura was jn Part 1 of the exam, so she is taking Part 2 this summer, 5 The journey to the South Pole ended ...... .. for Scott and his men, 6 — We had to watk home when the car broke down. I was most . sou person I know. @ Read the text. Work out the meaning of the underlined words by deciding what kind of words they are (noun, verb, etc.) using the context and your own language to help you, Example: Biro — nous. Context: Yow write with it. AA journalist writes about the South Pole Within two minutes I can’t write because my biro is frozen solid. My hair is frozen too and my face feels icy. My eyebrows are frozen too and metting snow keeps dropping into my eyes. My heart is pounding as my body tries to acclimatise to this terrible cold. 3) Wordbuilding Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets. 1 The weather was so bad that it was impossible, to continue our journey. (POSSIBLE) 2 The menu was in Chinese and nobody could give us a .. (TRANSLATE) 3 Tlost my passport so T had no form of (IDENTIFY) 4 She can walk a tong way in one day because she's s0 ... vn « (ENERGY) 5 It was a difficult and dangerous climb so we had to go .. . (CAREFUL) 6 One minute it was sunny, the next it rained. The weather was (CHANGE) 7 One of the expedition members hurt his leg and was to continue. (ABLE) Focug on writing 4) Linking box. then, frst, after a while, son, later, while, during Complete Mary's e-mail to her father with the time linking words in the Mountaineer David Wilson is on an expedition to K3, @ mountain in the Himalayas. His fifteen-year-old daughter, Mary, is at home in England. | dear Dad | o ee it’s st ipte of other friends T som | to the Top of K3"- | went in and bought ‘the poper. 1s “Japanese” | headtine was | Gets to the Top of K3”. For to oF | gine move and then (2 | Jo was very good to me | school and (3) | Started to feet a bit better | be positive about this! (A) | write to Dad, (5) mt something for Mu to Miss Clarke, my history teacher, | sprite this e-mail to you C6 ve going 0 i Fo vennnnnnn and ER avin | (O itm cn the my tome (> Punctuatior Examples: .24.London Road, Leeds, Yorkshire. _Thausday 25 September, 2002 1 642 Ludlow Place Ludlow Shropshire Friday 18 February 2002 2 16 Brotherton Avenue Dorchester Dorset Saturday 6 April 2003 3. Flat B 25 Killian Grove Brixton London Sunday 28 July 2002 4 — The Hawthornes Brook Drive Cheam Surrey Wednesday 16 May 2002 17 Leamington Street Hall Green Birmingham Thursday 17 January 2004 OH oo}, wit hile... 1 was. walking to schoo hop. Tt said ‘Expedition Gets I thought it was about you. SOT The First word in the Te said ‘Japanese Expedition three minutes I 1 started to cry She said I had to go to | about lunch time, T J thought ‘1’ going to 1’m going to buy > cheer her up!” Anyway, I spoke and she let me : Commas for addresses and dates Put the correct punctuation in these addresses and dates. f hy Jo and @ T’m going to the history | " home | . ernoon now, I’m going esson! It’s afternoo yy sone chocolates | Lots of love, Mary Adventure t ‘> Spelling Write the jumbled word in each sentence correctly. 1 Our mbiation was to be the the mountain, 2 Unfortunately, uccesssful aucbition, first to climb we were not as the Japanese got there first. 3. We were disappointed but we weren't evasdtated 4 The Japanese had problems but we had some rioseus difficulties, 5 Nevertheless, al ll the people ‘on our expedition showed a lot of uracoge 6 It was an unforgettable urmejoy all. for us informal message Complete the message with the informal linking word isin the box. anyway, well, and, but, so, luckily, actually David Wilson writes back to his } Bear Mary, |) Mele, ko We were only J BD anon | alt the peop >. | than T thought. daughter, Mary. » they got there we weren’t very Few hours behin @. 7 Our expedition, p Lots of love, pag UL. be home two doy first far behind them. id them, » I'm proud of YS earlier 1 Adventure 2 GRAMMAR Present Simple, Present Continuous and Present Perfect @, & Negative sentences Write negative sentences. 1 Tike visiting countries outside Europe. I dow lke visiting countries outside, Europe, She travels a lot. 3 He is preparing for the trip. 4 They have been to China. 5 Tina has seen the Great Wall of China. 6 I'm learning Spanish. 7 Peter and Jean are buying new clothes for the journey. 8 — We've been to the Amazon. (2) & Question forms Write the questions in the dialogue, using the cues to help you. Lisa: /you ever be/ to South America? ure you ever been to Souths America’ David: No, never. Why? /you like/ travelling? 2 se Lisa: Yes! Don’t you? /you always go on hotiday in this country? 3 ne David: Yes, I do. It's easier. You can speak your own language. /you learn/ Spanish? Lisa: Yes. I'm learning as much Spanish as I can before I go. David: And /you read/ books about South America? Lisa: Yes. Well, I'm reading one book. /you read/ travel BOOKS? 6 nnn David: No. But I like adventure books, like Scott's Diaries. /you read/ Scott's Diaries? @” nn Lisa: No, But I want to read them. /he write/about the last expedition, in 1910? (8) : David: Oh yes! It's very interesting. (3) % & Present Simple, Present Continuous or Present Perfect? Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Jason Peters (1) . _ (be) a wildlife cameraman. He (2) sense (film) wild animals for documentary programmes on TV. For fifteen years, as part of his job, he (3) (explore) the world’s jungles and rain forests. Snakes (4). vw» (bite) him more times than he can remember and alligators (5) (attack) him, too. At the moment he (6) sw (prepare) to go back to the Amazon. He (7) un (love) filming there but another reason is that his girlfriend, Carmen, (8) o- (live) in Manaus, near the ‘Amazon. Peter and Carmen (9) (work) together when they can. They (10) (film) in Venezuela several times. While they were there, they lived with the Matis Indians. ‘The Matis (1). .. (eat) monkeys’ says Jason ‘but they (12) v= (not eat) some animals which are part of their religion. At the moment I (13) wwe (study) them and the Amazon people and I (14) (try) to compare the two. I (15) .. find) books about the Amazon people to help me but there's nothing about the Matis. I'l have to write something myself!’

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