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Reading 9 Read the text. Match paragraphs A-E of the text with questions 1-7. There are two extra questions. The most dangerous journey |A. How do you et about carjoumeys? Do you get a it bored, ask te arver naw ong jing io take, an then fal steep? Or do you get extremely anvous? This is exactly how fetast month, when took arp down the most dangerous road in he wo B The North Yungas road in Bola goes from La Paz, whichis avery large cyt the tonn of Coroco inthe mountan region ofthe Amazon ranforest. The roads about 69 km ong, but n that short cstanceit goes down from about 4 0 m high to 1,200 m, ‘Although its only about three mezes wide and there are no quad als, cars travel in both drectons. The views are amazing, Du Delveen two and tree nundrea travelers are kiled every year when they drive of the side of his rad, In Spanish itis called ET ‘Camino de os Muertos — the Road ofthe Dead, © When | wentto vist my end Jacqueline in La Paz, had no idea how dangerous the [Norn Yungas roaa was. | was very excited about ne mp to me Amazon rainforest hat she wanted to take me on. When we got on the bus, iacquelne let me stby he window to get the best view. | dit fel suspicious a al 1D Itwas only when the joumey stared that | began o fee fightened. The bus drove right tothe eoge of te road many tmes, and when | looked ove, | coua see te forest avout 600 m below us. We drove on quickly through tick cloud - now do you know where: youre going when you cantsee? | held on fo Jacquetine’s hand. Then we drove under a Wateral that was sly wasting te road avay. | was shocked! E When we met anotne car coming the oer way, we drove so close tothe edge of the ‘oad that a whee seemed to o of the edge. This happened several times and | started thinking that we might not reach our nal destination. When we fly goto Coroico, | fell so eleved. et go of Jaoquelne's hand and saw tha Il was ed. Iwas @ bit embarrassed, but so happy that we were not on that road any more. Inwhich paragraph does the writer telus. 1 one goo ming about ne roa? 2. aut Tout veanercondtons? 3. ata coming tours me bus? 4 thalshe did ease the oad wast sate? 5 wong te joumey tok? 6 alse was dsopponted aout ety? 7 autho some pope Feel when they av? r Reading K Read the text and decide if the statements are F (right), W (wrong) or DS (doesn’t say). Darwin, Aubtral ia. Do you wanto goon ap sometere unique? Then why nat oto Darwin in usta? Darwin's located in th noth ofthe county onthe Tor Se ani home to about 150000 poopie. “There ae ls of beaut things ose in Davin, For beach fan, thee isthe sandy Min Beech. If you estore bulings, the pace o head fris Goverment House. Tete ae ofes inside, and event for important visitors from other countries also take place there. Sightseers must also go to the Charles Darwin National Park and ake a potaraph othe amazing scenery. They ean also see the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northem Territory, which has ations about the of, andthe Mason Galery, wh sul ofa tom the local peoee of Asta, For those thet ike shopping, the Prep Vilage and Nghe Markets re i, perfecto buy clothes, a5 wells cal rsh ut and vegetables. You can ae around the city ether by car or bus. eS orton hb sightseeing and cultura ts the place to bel 1 The population of Darwin is around 150,000. 2. Darwin located on the coast of Australia, 3 Alotoftoursts visit Darwin every year. 4 Taking pictures inthe National Parks not allowed, Hooooo 5 There is public tanspor in Darwin. © 6] Complete the dialogue was, were, wosn’t or weren’t, Inspector Mr Green Inspector Mr Green Inspector Mr Green Inspector Mr Green Inspector Mr Green Inspector @ Put the words in order to make questions. Where |. it@te... you at B pm. yesterday? 1 athome with my wile Athome, Yes, we in the ling room, And! your children with you! JUliaSaenaeras SN Satan at a fiends house ‘And Bean?” he at home! eS, Bran omnes at home, He 4 in is bedroom, ‘What about the maid and the COO Where nner they I don't know. But they "! in the house How do you know that? 1 yesterday /bored /you / Were? Were yeu hored yesterday? 2 were / Where / you at 8 pan. yesterday 3. Sunday you fafterioon / were / Who f with /on @ Answer the questions in @ about you. Mr Green Because they don't work here on Saturdays Inspector But yesterday anne Sun Mr Green Inspector inthe kitchen at 8 pm. She says you H in the garage at 8 pm. — inthe garage where: body oe Mr Green It ry wi. te Pca ML Inspector Interesting She saysit you. Please come with me tothe police sation, Mr Green. 4 moming! you at) Where / 8 arn, / were /this 2 5 frend (your / yesterday / best / Was / happy 6 school / Were at /aitemaon / yesterday you Example Mexdwas't.1was excited. Jtwos my sister's birthday. Past simple — regular verbs ¢ Use the past simple to tell stories. ‘Add -ed to regular verbs. Add -d to verbs ending in -e. Change -y to ~ied for verbs ending in - consonant y. walk walked play played ~— listen —_lstoned arrive arrived change changed stop -—stopped study studied carry carried try tried Yesterday morning was great. Lots of things happened! I jumped out of bed at seven o'clock, I looked cout of the window ~ rain, ran, rain! So I played ‘my favourite computer game for haf an hou. 1 ‘wunted to ply longer, but mum shouted: ‘Amy, your brealasts ready! After breakfast Iistened to muse (I've gota great new CD) and watched TV fora bit ‘Then the weather changed, It was sunny! So 1 walled to the park. | phoned Paul and waited for him, He arrived ten minutes later with his dog Bonkers. Bonkers chased a squirel up a tree ~it was very funng! ‘Then Paul noticed something. There was cat in the tee too. climbed the te, picked up the cat and cartied i down to the groune! again. ‘We tle to find the owner ofthe cat, but no fuck. [asked my mum; ‘Mum, can {keep the eat?’ and she said ‘OK’, So now I've got a cat called Lucky at hone! 22 Underline the correct options in each sentence. 1 Iphone / phoned my fend Paul every day yesterday | phone / phoned him at sic o'lock in the morning 2 Yesterday | was abit angry with Jenny. | aways ak waked to school with her, but yesterday she weiks # waked to school with Harry Sith 9 3 Sometimes Mark pays / pled football wel. Last Saturday, he plays ployed rally badly 4. Ourdogis great — when we go shopping he always carries carried the shopping basket. Last weekend, he cones /camied a really heavy basket 5 We usually study / studied for an hour every right — but yesterday we Study /studed for three hours, 6 When my cat was ite, she chases / chased birds Now she chases / chased dogs! 7 There's an interesting programme on TV. Every week they interview J interviewed a famous person Last week they interview] interiewed my favourite fi star {8 The teacher was surprised yestecay when jonny casks | asked a question, johnny never asks / asked questions in lass! J ° Read the story. Write one of the verbs in each space = bbut you have to unjumble the letters! Last night 1 '...Stvdied,..... in-eve eine ke forme dellimperetva sono wu a quelle del presente, finire + Finisc la pasa! rmanglare —+ Mangia la fruttal I verbi in sare hanno invece wna forma divers. bere + Bevi pit acqual I veri com we presente irregolare hanno Viregolarite anche alla 2 persona cite + Esc pit spessol_—_singoare dellimperatve, andare vat Alcuni verbi hanno una forma monosilcbica aposirefisa. sere + si Alri verbi hanno wna forma iveglare. vere + abbi sapere — sappi Compleaiconsig com imperative verb. Quando va in un negocio di sap... che tipo di scare vuoi prima di entrare nel nego, bene le scarpe quando le provi. per un po’ nel negozio con le scarpe ai piedi, se ci sono altri colori dello stesso modelo, il preto prima di acquistare quacosa. i consigh del commesso... ma non troppo! o lescarpe solo quando sei sicuro! 7 4 Un lavoro sedentario gi poss Feel. Quale semble mig per Robert? Parle on wn compage, Roberts ‘Ciao ragazi a quando ho cominciato questo nuovo koro mi sero davvero senza free. I ‘ecole & che resto sadute tuto i gono, mi alo solo per mangiae e per andae ir agra. Cosa mi consigiete? 10 hie -Conmeta Soi pst: Cndi-t6 rea arco Rimdio Fan po’ di grasa tute e matine prima della coazione E aporoita 1 opripausa evarava, eiche breve, pet ‘are unpo' moto. Losc, pub Fe 14050, a sare frm to cuel tempo a male! 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