1 1 marks 12 marks 113 10 marks 10 marks New words in English Match the words to the pictures. [mouse potato incline skating teleshopping road rage audio book surfing the net video jockey _waitperson. ‘Match the phenomena on the left to the consequences on the right. 1 decluttering 2 people are less territorial at work 2 baby boom advertisers target older people 3 outsourcing © unnecessary things get thrown away 4 hor-desking d. the company saves money on holiday pay 5 grey pound © the internet is much more heavily used 6 e-commerce F there are a lot of people the same age ‘Mark these statements true or false. If they are false explain why. Example: Keypals are people who collect keys. False. Keypals are people who exchange e-mails in the same way that penpals exchange. Letters. Eco-tourists like visiting capital cities. People who suffer from eating disorders are always fat. A screenager can be male or female, Docusoaps are programmes about soap operas. A spin doctor has to study medicine for at least five years. Telebanking means saving up to buy a TV or computer. Someone who is drop-dead gorgeous is very old. Cosmonauts travel into cyberspace. On a bad-hair day you need to go to the hairdresser's, Laddish behaviour is bad behaviour. Explain the underlined words in the sentences. Example: \ot of people refuse to eat GM foods. GM stands for genetically modified, which means that the foods have been artificially changed. through biotechnology in some way. 1 My boss has cyberphobia and always insists on using snail mail. 2 Shopaholics often spend a fortune tele-shopping. 3 While I was channel-hopping last night, I found a very interesting fly-on-the-wall documentary about life in a busy café. 4 Sick building syndrome and information fatigue syndrome are two of the health hazards of life in the twenty-first century 5 He's a wannabe director and he’s planning his first film ~ it’s to be about Dianamania. Test Your English Vocabulary in Use (upperintermediate)TEST [eneie 12 Words commonly mispronounced 12.1 These words are in the IPA. Write them in their normal spelling. lomarts Example: /'mntrastin/ interesting 1 fdaut/ 3 farsan) = S hukap! 7 /nisl/ 9 'masall 2 Iplas! 4 sarkiki 6 ‘/restpis!) 8 /satd/ 10 ital 12.2 Divide the words into pairs of words that rhyme, ‘Omata Example: heard, word. bend dove fiend fork friend heard | | hurry leaned lorry love palm | sorry stove though through | toe sord worry 12.3 Mark the stressed syllable in the words in bold. lomarks Example: Next week, we'll progress to the next stage. What are your country’s main exports? They have conflicting ideas about their own roles. The children have made a lot of progress with their maths. ‘The value of property usually increases every year. Will they permit you to work here? Although he is Russian, he has a UK permanent residence permit. ‘The highest July temperatures ever were recorded in London today. Til never desert you, the poet promised his love. There is gaing to be an organised protest about the new by-pass. What an insult! You have no right to speak to me like that! u 12.4 Underline all the silent letters in this text. "merle Julie, a friend I met at my psychology class, left the silver comb I gave her for Christmas in the castle when we spent an hour there last week. She took it out of her bag because she wanted to get some knots out of her hair while we were having a walk round the old tombs there. told her she ‘would lose it if she wasn't careful. And she did! Fortunately, an honest person picked it up and returned it to the gatekeeper. Julie feels very indebted to that anonymous person as she was very fond of that comb. 7a Tes Your English Vocabulary in Use (upperintermediote) W13 Onomatopoeic words 13.1 Match the words (1-11) with the nouns (a-k} they collocate most closely with. warts Example: Sa 1 clashing 7 peeping, a cows 5 cymbals 2 creaking 8 sizzling b propellers hh stanrs 3 dealing 9. spurting © car horn 1 bacon 4 grunting 10 unkling d horses } ran 5 mooing, 11 whirring € fountain k pigs 6 neighing £ bicycle bell 13.2 Circle the most appropriate word for each sentence. marks Example: The dog always whistles/clashes/Grawls) when it ses the postman, 1 Please can you help me smash/mash/crash the potatoes? 2 Children love spraying/sputtering/splashing through puddles. 3. She heard a click/clank/clink at the end of the phone as he hung up. 4 The wounded soldier grunted/growl ledigroaned in pain. 5 Do you hear those church bells 6 She sprayed/splashed/sprinkled herbs on the fish and called the family to eat. 7 Sorry, I can’t stop now. I've got to whurr/dashitrickle. 8 Can you whistle/ewggle/gcumble this song? 9 They clanked/clnked/clashed glasses and drank to the success of their project. 10 When she asked him to do the washing-up, he just splashed/grunted/trickled 13.3 Match these combinations of letters to their usual associations in English and give two omarks examples of words for each letter combination, Lge ‘movement of water 2d fast, violent movement 3 sp something light and repeated 4 growl, grumpy 5 6 whe something unpleasant or miserable -ash a sharp metallic sound vekle movement of air 13.4 Choose the verb from the side that best fits each gap. Vomart Example: Camcorders Whirr as the bridal couple emerge from the church. 1 The autumn leaves as Lwalk through them. 21 with sale water T have a sore throat. 3 Don't the ball so hard 4 Tate 1 when fierce dogs . 5 The attack left a un her arm Lee 6 Le’s alases and drink their health mete 7 Ws eude to 1 pubhe places. i 8 Horseriders carry a | Shack | 9 People usually back when cows make @ norse. — 10 People with bronchitis tend to ve hee 18 Test Your Engh Vocabulary in Use (uppersntermedhate)14 141 10 mars, 14.2 1 marks 14.3 oman 14.4 omar Homonyms Find five more examples of homophones (words that sound the same) and five more examples of homographs (words that are spelt the same) in the text. Explain why they are examples of homophones / homographs. Examples: homophone: weight (wait) Thomograph: sow (female pig) and sow (seeds) Look at chat fat sow! What a weight she must be! Heavier than lead! I've never seen anything like And there are two piglets underneath her: What a row they are making! If she rolls over on top of them they won't lve. They certainly need a big pen to house an animal lke hert Find a word in the box that chymes with the underlined words. choose found geinned ve junce mooned no now bed nose aed Example: Jane can be relied on to take the lead. Seed ‘The wand blew the tree down. Have you wound the grandfather clock today? Theard the band playing live. Have you read Crime and Punishment? Love your bow tte, The children stood in two rows. ‘The cat just lay there after its operation licking its wound. 8 Do you use English Grammar in Use? ; 9. At the end of the concert, the orchestra took a bow. Write each of these words, written in phonetics, in two different ways. Example: (eal air, heir 1 fgraun’ 6 o'laud/ 2 thors! 7 pis 3 tata’ 8 fwerst/ 4 twain! 9 frei! 5 pe 10 fsoxt/ Each of these book titles contains a pun (a joke based on words). Explain why these words are humorous. Example: What a Panel, a glassmaker’s memoirs What a pain' Meaning what a. nuisance is a normal expression. Pane = a. large piece of glass. 1 Tee Time, autobiography of a golf instructor. 2. Love At First Site, romance on an archaeological dig. 3 Heaven Scent, biography of a creator of perfumes 4. This Place has a Soul, account of hfe m a fishmonger’s. 5. Sail of the Century, account of a memorable voyage Test Your Englsh Vocabulary in Use (opperantermeshate) 915 Connecting and linking (1) 15.1 Choose the correct alternative, Omar Example: I have to go to the hospital once a month now. Previously I had to go every two weeks. (a) Former (b) Previously (c} Prior 1 here, I used to work in a factory. (a) Before I've worked _(b) Before to work —_(¢) Before working 2 Take this umbrella just in case (a) of raining (b) xt will ran (c} rains 3 You can stay at our flat condition that you pay for your own phone calls Gof — (byon (Jin 4 You wall get to the city centre bus you take. (a) however (b) no matter __(c) whichever My reason to go was that it was too far to drive. a) of not wanting {b) tonot wanting —_(c) for not wanting 15.2 _ Fill the gaps using the words given. 1 We sent out a questionnaire, finding out what people really wante 2 We shouldn't prepare the room we know definitely that she 1s coming, 3 the five years she was away, I never once stopped thinking of her. 4 e's OK to miss a few classes, you send a note to the teacher explaining why. 5. A lot of fights were late, the bad weather. 6 they don’t give us the money. What then? 15.3 Rewrite the sentences using the words in brackets. M4maris Example: There were a lot of accidents as a result of the snow. (cause) A lob of accidents were caused by the snow. or The snow caused a lob of accidents. 1. Computers will change our hives even more m the new millennium. (bring about) 2 There was a 20% increase in taxes. Then there were serious riots and protests. (spark off) 3 He had made a mistake, and said so. (acknowledge) 4 The decision was unpopular and a lot of angry debate resulted. (give rise to) 5 A lack of communication between employers and employees causes this feeling of insecurity among the staff. (anise from) Great changes in famuly hfe have come as a result of growing economic prosperity. (lead to) A decision made ten years ago 1s responsible for the present problems. (stem from) 15.4 Complete the missing words. lOmarts Example: 1 don’t know what his mo 8s were for doing what he did. 1 Our plans have met all the con _the authorities asked for. 2 wonder what pr hm to make such an aggressive comment? 3 The decision was the out of months of protests from environmental groups. BOER 4 The entry re for this course are English and one foreign language. 7/4 would not allow st under any cr 20 Test Your English Vocabulary n Use (upperantermeate)