4 Most actors become accustomed to being famous. get Most actors seve. famous. 5 Did you listen to the radio at night in the days before television was invented? to Did to the radio at night before television was invented? 6 There was a time when | went out dancing every Saturday night. used I out dancing every Saturday night. 7 Its normal for me to go to bed before 11 p.m. am 1 to bed before 11 p.m. Vocabulary 1: verbs related to leaving (people and places) ® CB page 67 | 1) Match the first parts of these sentences to the second parts 1 I don't want to leave! 2 My friends have just moved .. 3 Peggy and her boyfriend split 4 My brother used to threaten to run 5 We didn't set 6 He was thinking of moving 7 He dropped 8 She must have slipped 4) ... out of high school and got a job. ) ... house and their things are stil in boxes, ... up on New Year's Day. away from home if he didn’t get his own way. 2). on because his job was boring and badly paid. 4)... home until finish studying, -. Out very quietly because none of us noticed her leave. 1) ... off for the airport early enough and we almost missed our flight UNIT 7. Moving on 2. Use of English: multiple-choice cloze Read the text below and decide which answer A, B or C best fits each space. When I finished secondary school it was very difficult to (0) ..B.. a good job so | decided to take a year (1)... and travel (2) ..... the United States. | had to save some money first of course. | (3)... 10 get a job as a waiter in a restaurant but | wasn't paid very much. This ‘meant that | couldn't afford to (4)... home or to go (6)...... with friends very much. My gitifriend said | was (6)... into a teal bore and that she wanted to split up (7)... me. | didn’t really care because | had been planning to move (8) ..... anyway. She had dropped out (9) ..... school and had been working ever since so she had plenty of money. She liked buying lots of clothes and CDs and things. She even had her own flat. Just before | left for the States, she (10)....... house to an even bigger flat in the same building as her new boyfriend. Even so, she came to see me (11) ...... at the airport when I left. | didn't, (12)... her goodbye because | thought she might start (13) .... iF I did, We just kind of (14) ..... hands. 0 A look ® find € search, 1A off B up C away 2 A over B around € along 3A succeeded —B used © managed 4A leave B let depart 5A over B along C out 6 A becoming —B turning € proving 7A from B to ¢ with 8 Aon Bin through 9A from B off Cot 10 A changed —_B transfered C moved 11 A away B out C off 12 A say B kiss C make 13 A shouting 8 screaming aying 14 8 waved B hugged C shook stUNIT 7 Moving on Grammar 2: making comparisons > CB page 71 About the language Making comparisons + Comparative and superlative adjectives old older the oldest fat fatter the fattest late later the latest easy easier the easiest boring ‘more boring the most boring comfortable more the most scomfortable comfortable good better the best bad worse the worst far further the furthest + (not) as... as 1'm as tall as my cousin. Sandra was not as nervous as Danuta. * less than, the least These jeans were less expensive than the ‘ones you bought. That was one of the least interesting films | have ever seen, * Talking aboist small differences: a littler a bitblightly The baby is a little heavier than he was last month. It a bit warmer today than it was yesterday. The walls were slightly yellower than we expected them to be. * Talking about large differences: a lot/ muchifar The room looked a lot bigger without furniture in it. I'm much more relaxed now that I've finished my exams. She's far better at tennis than | am. This is the most comfortablest chair in the room. Its far aiere-easy to write on a computer than its by hand. 1 She is the friendlfest person | have ever met. than The jacket was a lot less expensive that | thought it would be. most It was the aiere difficult thing | have ever done. 4) Read this extract from a student's essay about the differences between life now and in the past. Complete the text with comparative forms of ‘the adjectives in brackets: ‘My grandmother says that it used to fake her only a fow minutes to get to school because it was in the village where she lied. My mother bad a much () (ong) journey because she had to catch a bus but my younger brothers’ school s even (2) (ar) away. Sometimes it tates ‘them clmest two hours to get there My grandmother hated school and she didn’t even get her primary school diploma. By my mother’s time, the education system was much (2) (Good) and most people Jnished school. Now the percentage of students fishing primary school is even (4) (high) at 98 per cent My mother started working when she left school at sixteen but my grandmother was a lot (5) (Goung) when she (got her frst job in a textile factory. It seems unbelievable to me ‘but she was only twelve years old, Another important difeence between the present day and the past is thet people got married ata much (b) (carly) age than they do nom. My grandmother got married at sixteen Houses were a lot (2) (Connfortable) then, fo, Very fow people had electricity and even (8) (few) had things like refrigerators. One way in which life has ceally improved is that people live to be much () (old) now because there are (wo (Good) health care services. 0 my grandmother's tine there were hardly any doctors. One quite strange thing is that although life was much o (hard), my grandmother ie convinced that ‘people were (12) happy) then.Look at this interview with members of a British pop roup. Fill in the gaps with a parative or superlative form of of the adjectives in the box. ble great exciting sick large famous responsive a nervous popular enormous “Interviewer: What is (0) the.most, terrifying, experience you've ever had? Chris: The first time we had to perform in front of a really large audience was pretty frightening Int: And what is the (1) number of people you've ever performed in front of? Will, Hmmm, that’s a difficult one. There are always huge audiences. You think that you've never seen so many people all at once and then the next time the crowd is even Q Int: Do you find Halian audiences @) thar British or ‘American audiences? | mean do they applaud more and sing along with the songs and so on? Jon: Yes, they do but then | think that it's partly because we are @ in Southern Europe than we are at home. Here in Britain there are often really unkind things about us in the music press and I'm sure there are a lot of people who don't realy ike us. Int: And what’ (5) thing about being pop stars? Travelling around the world? Performing? Having lots of fans? Chris: Everything is pretty exciting actually, but | suppose one of © thrills for me was meeting a lot of really famous stars at the Pop Music awards in Britain. | mean people who are much (7) than us like Oasis and Kylie Minogue. It was really incredible Int: Do you stil get nervous when you have to perform? Will: Of course, though I'm a lot (8) now than I used to be, Experience teaches you how to keep your nerves under control Chris: Does it? | feel just (9) as lever did. immediately before | go on stage Int: You're rather different to most other pop stars because you all went to university. Do you ever get criticised because of that? Jon: Sometimes but we think its really stupid to criticise us just because we have (10) family backgrounds than other musicians, We know where we're from and we just write songs, about what we know. §B__ Use of English: error correction Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the les are correct, and some have a word that should not be there. Tick (V) the lines that are correct. Cross out the words that should not be there. 0 Sharing @ house or flat with other students can be the 00 more difficult than you expect. For example, if you are 4 1 a slightly tier than your flatmates, cleaning up their 2 mess can really get on your nerves. Another problem 3 is shopping. Sometimes one person wants to buy the less 4 expensive food than everyone else or insists on doing the 55 shopping at the far cheapest supermarket. Once you've 6 bought the food, cooking can be even the more troublesome 7 Some people find it a much more enjoyable than others and 8 these people are the far best cooks as well. Even if you think 9. you are as good at cooking as your flatmates itis a good idea 10 to follow recipes carefully until you are more as experienced. 11 Then you can be a bit more daring. In spite of having to make 12 a lot of changes and adjustments, once you've got be used to 13 sharing a flat you will probably find that it's far less lonely than 14 living on your own and that even if itis a much more difficult 15 to study sometimes, you have a lat more fun.