Key to Vocabulary / Grammar activities

Unit 1 Unit 2 3
4
put her foot down
put her mind to
5 close to home
1 1 6 a house on fire
 1 in 1 archives 7 on the house
 2 to 2 shields 8 put up with
 3 on 3 prehistoric
 4 with 4 warriors 2
 5 over 5 descendants 1 a 2 b 3 a 4 c
 6 about 6 ancestors 5 c 6 b 7 b 8 a
 7 for 7 battlefield
 8 on 8 armour 3
 9 in 9 firearms  1 go
10 down  2 We’re not moving in
2  3 is going to look
2 1 a 2 b 3 a 4 c 5 b  4 You’re going to drop
1 emotional 6 a 7 c 8 b 9 a  5 will be
2 self-confident  6 won’t be
3 unconventional 3  7 I’m not doing
4 overwhelmed  1 was using  8 we’ll be living
5 reluctant  2 used to be  9 will have dried
6 outgoing  3 had you been taking 10 won’t be arriving
7 ecstatic  4 would get
8 eager  5 had been pouring 4
 6 didn’t use to have 1 
I am so tired of my neighbour’s
3  7 had become noise that I’m on the point of
 1 have you changed  8 used to live moving house.
 2 ’m taking  9 came 2 
The rent at my flat is about to go
 3 ’ve been sitting 10 have enjoyed up again. It’s getting so
 4 sounds expensive to live here.
 5 are the researchers trying 4 3 
I will have been living in this flat
 6 don’t tell 1 has written for a year next Friday.
 7 ‘ve been thinking 2 wasn’t used to 4 
The shops on the high street are
 8 make 3 hadn’t written to be / will be demolished and
 9 ’ve eaten 4 get used to driving replaced with three-storey flats.
10 ’m getting 5 hadn’t been expecting 5 
We are due to finish repaying
6 had been chatting our mortgage in 2050.
4 7 used to avoid going 6 
We are bound to find the right
1 By the time 8 have ever been found house soon. We just need to
2 When keep looking.
3 often 7 
I’m on the verge of signing the
4 already contract, but it’s such a big
5 at the moment
Unit 3 commitment.
6 In 2016 8 
Marc will have been planning his
7 From time to time birthday celebrations all month.
1
8 recently / already 1 a home from home
2 make yourself at home

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Unit 4 Unit 5  5 My uncle insisted that he needed
to / had to leave the next day. /
My uncle insisted on leaving the
1 1 next day.
1 c 2 f 3 d 4 j 5 b 1 a 2 b 3 b  6 She agreed to lend Mike her
6 g 7 h 8 e 9 a 10 i 4 a 5 c 6 a car. / She agreed that Mike could
borrow her car.
2 2  7 I promised never to lie to her. / I
promised that I would never lie
1 glove 1 get
to her.
2 shirt 2 make
 8 My friend confessed to cheating
3 hat 3 clear
on question four. / My friend
4 belt 4 spread
confessed that they / he / she
5 socks 5 break
had cheated on question four.
6 pocket 6 call
7 sleeves 7 have  9 He apologised (to her) for not
8 boots 8 come coming to her party.
10 The police officer enquired if /
3 3 whether the shopkeeper had
1 
was shown all of the different 1 
told me to be careful who I seen the girl.
styles they had in stock. spoke to.
2 
are shipped to customers in 2 
them that the shopping centre
twenty countries. would be opened by the mayor Unit 6
3 
are being produced. the following / the next Saturday.
4 
have been refunded in full for 3 
the politician to talk off-the
the jeans. record. / The journalist asked the 1
5 
can be made in any of these politician if he / she would talk 1 d 2 g 3 b 4 h
fabrics. off the record. 5 a 6 e 7 c 8 f
6 
will be launched in Paris. 4 
thought they would be able to
7 
must not be worn in the offer tourist flights into space 2
classroom. soon.  1 line
8 
are certainly going to be noticed 5 
temperatures would stay at 35  2 settle
in that bright pink coat. degrees that week but might fall  3 boat
the following / the next week.  4 call
4 6 
to tell him her name.  5 fit
1 
The designer was known to be / 7 
the reporters that two children  6 hold
for being extremely difficult to who had gone missing had been  7 lead
work with. found safely that day.  8 drive
2 
Instead of being thrown away, 8 
who had given him her home  9 have
the cotton can be made into new address. 10 sailing
garments.
3 
I absolutely love being looked 4 3
after for a change! 1  My boss warned me not to be  1 to inform
4 
We had our power cut off by the late.  2 to eat
storm. 2  She recommended that I try the  3 rowing
5 
They are said to be planning to new Vietnamese restaurant in  4 to get
sue the newspaper. town. / She recommended trying  5 to talk
6 
Could you get your sister to give the new Vietnamese restaurant  6 to get
me a call, please? in town.  7 travelling
7 
I’m not having my brother make  3 My teacher congratulated me on  8 to get
my decisions for me. passing every (single) subject.  9 pay
8 
It is believed that consumers  4 She wondered if / whether the 10 talking
care more about the planet dress would look good on her.
these days.
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4 4 does 7 can’t have swallowed / couldn’t
1 
I can’t convince her to come with 5 shall have swallowed
us, so she’ll have to stay here on 6 did 8 she wasn’t able to
her own. 7 won’t
2 
I heard the door slam suddenly 8 do 4
as he left the apartment. 1 was allowed to
3 
The hotel expects us to be out of 4 2 are you supposed to
the room by ten, so we had 1  Under no circumstances will I 3 supposed
better hurry up. watch the film Titanic with you – 4 ought to
4 
We didn’t notice the sun go / it’s sentimental nonsense. 5 needn’t
going down because we were in 2 It was the music that I loved more 6 could
a cave. than anything else in this film. 7 shouldn’t
5 
Would you mind me sitting with 3 ✔ 8 would
you on the coach? 4  The thing that made Titanic so
6 
Remind Dad to take his popular was the chemistry
medication when he gets back to between the two leading actors.
the hotel. 5  Not once have I regretted Unit 9
7 
She always seems to resent other walking out of the cinema –
people having a good time. I hated that adaptation! 1
8 
You can smell the chicken 6  What I was trying to say was that
 1 autonomous
cooking on the barbecue from the film was unwatchable if you
 2 chemical
the balcony. have read the book.
 3 Electronics
7  Little did we know that the series
 4 energy
would become such a big hit.
 5 experimental
Unit 7 8  Rarely have I been so terrified
 6 mechanical
during a film.
 7 privacy
 8 secure
1
 9 technological
1 spotlight Unit 8 10 theoretical
2 an adaptation
3 screenplays
4 interval 1 2
5 cast 1 hacked
1 a 2 c 3 b 4 b 5 c
6 sequel 2 uninstall
6 c 7 a 8 b
7 soundtrack 3 swipe
4 export
8 masterpiece 2
5 paste
1 build
6 refreshing
2 2 bet
7 select
 1 emotion 3 contract
8 Navigate
 2 imagination 4 with
 3 knowledge 5 discharged
 4 feature 6 twist 3
 5 reality 7 poisoning 1 will forget
 6 expectations 8 believe 2 will start
 7 role 3 would know
 8 rave 3 4 I’d delete
 9 folk 5 should
1 must have been
10 dress 6 would have had
2 didn’t manage to reach
7 you planned
3 isn’t capable of walking
3 8 is
4 could have made
1 will 5 didn’t succeed in getting.
2 did 6 should be here / should have
3 won’t been here
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4
Approaching
Not noticing
Unit 12
1 c 2 a 3 b 4 c 5 a
6 c 7 c 8 b 9 a 10 a 5 Having answered
6 Not having been 1
7 Never having visited  1 provoke
8 Never having spoken  2 settle
Unit 10  3 contradicts
 4 challenge
1 Unit 11  5 objected
 6 convey
 1 administrator
 7 concede
 2 growth
 3 increasingly
1  8 relented
 1 housing development  9 resolve
 4 personnel
 2 high-rise 10 submit
 5 productive
 6 recruitment  3 densely populated
 7 reliance  4 retail park 2
 8 supervisor  5 congestion 1 on your side
 9 supplier  6 town planning 2 open-minded
10 vacancy  7 chain stores 3 out of the question
 8 municipal 4 inflexible
 9 car-free 5 non-verbal
2
10 urban renewal 6 articulate
 1 up
7 convention
 2 of
 3 in
2 8 consensus
 4 to 1 off
 5 from 2 up 3
 6 for 3 down 1 c 2 a 3 c 4 b 5 b
 7 in 4 up 6 b 7 a 8 b 9 a 10 c
 8 with 5 for
 9 of 6 to 4
10 up 7 on
1 extremely
8 up
2 too
3 3 really
 1 I chatted with
3 4 so
 2 when 1 look it up 5 absolutely
 3 which 2 look round it 6 utterly
 4 at which 3 ✔ 7 enough
 5 which overlooks 4 come back 8 such
 6 on which 5 ✔
 7 which 6 run into him
 8 in which 7 make them up
 9 to whom 8 fit in
10 whose
4
4 1 b 2 c 3 a 4 b 5 c
1 Not trusting 6 c 7 a 8 b
2 Working

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