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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 earlier1 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!’