resize

relocate
accommodate (chứa đựng)
in-house
floor plan 
is kept intact (giữ nguyên)
prepositional phrase + stands + object
the reshuffle (sự xáo trộn)
leave room for (dành chỗ cho) make way for (nhường chỗ cho)
NINA: Hi, George! Glad you’re back. 1______________ of people have phoned you.

GEORGE : Really?

NINA: I felt just like your 2_______________________!

GEORGE : Sorry! I went into the library this afternoon to have a look at a newspaper and I came
3__________ something really interesting.

NINA: What? A book?

GEORGE : No, a 4____________________ from a summer festival – mainly 5_________________

music. Look, I’ve got it here.

NINA: Spanish music? I really love the guitar. Let’s have a look. So what’s this group ‘Guitarrini’?

GEORGE : They’re really good. They had a video with all the highlights of the festival at 6 __
___________ in the lobby to the library, so I heard them. They play 7_______________ instruments
– drums and 8_________ and 9_____ kinds of guitars. I’ve never heard anything like it before.

NINA: Sounds great.

GEORGE : Okay. Shall we go then? 10__________ ourselves?

NINA: Yes, let’s.

GEORGE : The only problem is there aren’t any cheap 11_______ it’s all one price.

NINA: Well, in that case we could sit right 12___ the front – we’d have a really good view.

GEORGE : Yeah, though I think that if you sit at the back you can actually hear the whole thing
better.

NINA: Yes, Anyway we can decided when we get there.

When the students come into the museum 13_________ we ask them to check in their
14________________ with their books, lunch 15_________, etc, at the 16______________ before
they enter the museum proper. I’m afraid in the past we have had a few things 17_______
__________ after school visits so this is a strict 18_______. Also, some of the 19________________
are 20___________ and we don’t want them to be 21________________________ _________.
But we do provide school students with 22______________ with questions and 23___________ on
them. There’s so much that students can learn in the museum and it’s 24________ for them to have
something to do. Of course they’ll need to bring something to write 25________ for these. We do
allow students to take students to take photographs. For students who are doing projects it’s useful to
make some kind of 26_____________ ____________ of what they see that they can add to their
reports. And finally, they should not bring anything to eat into the museum, or drinks 27____ any kind.
There are also a few things the students can do after the tour. In the theatrette on the ground floor
there are 28____________ screenings of short 29__________ about dinosaurs which they can see
at any time. We used to have an activity room with more interactive things like making models of
dinosaurs and drawing and painting pictures, even hunting for dinosaurs 30_________, but
unfortunately the room was damaged in a bad 31________ recently when water came in the roof, so
that’s closed at the moment. But we do have an  IT centre where students have access to CD ROMs
with a range of  dinosaur games. These games are a lot of fun , but they also teach the students
about the 32______ of dinosaurs, how they found food, 33______________ their 34_____________,
survived threats, that kind of things.

Change from active to passive

1. My father waters this flower every morning.

2. John invited Fiona to his birthday party last night.

3. Her mother is preparing the dinner in the kitchen.

4. We should clean our teeth twice a day.

5. Our teachers have explained the English grammar.

6. He has broken his nose in a football match.

7. The manager didn’t phone the secretary this morning.

Complete the sentences with one of the following adjectives + the correct preposition:
afraid     different     interested    proud    responsible         similar      sure
I think she’s arriving this evening but I’m not__________________ that.
Your camera is __________________mine but it isn’t exactly the same.
Don’t worry. I’ll look after you. There’s nothing to be  _______________
A: Do you want to watch the news on television?
B: No, I’m not ___________________________ the news.
The editor is the person who is ____________  what appears in a newspaper.
Mrs Davis is a very keen gardener. She’s very  ____________________ 
her garden and loves showing it to visitors.
I was surprised when I met her for the first time. She was _______________  
what I expected.

Complete the sentences with a suitable phrase that is true to you. 

a) I’m mad about …….
b) I’m not keen on ….
c) I’m bored with ….
d) I’m not interested in ….
e) I’m passionate about…
f) I’m fond of…
g) I’m indifferent …
h) I’m capable of……
i) I’m enthusiastic / fanatical about…….

Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfet Simple, Past Simple Continuous and Present
Perfect Tenses. Fill in each blank by putting the verb in (brackets) into the correct past tense.
1 I ………………………………………(see) my first baseball game when I
……………………………………(live) in New York.
2 How many pints of beer ……………………………………(he/drink) before he
………………………………….(leave) the pub?
3 It ………………………………………………..(rain) so we ………………………………….(decide) to
stay at home all afternoon.
4 By the time I ……………………………………………..(leave) university I ……………………………….
(be) to France fifteen times.
5 What ………………………………………………..(you/do) at the time the murder was committed?
6 When we ……………………(get) home we saw that someone ………………………..(break) in to
steal the DVD recorder.
7 He ………………………………..(send) to prison four times before he …………………………………..
(decide) that it would be better to go straight.
8 I didn't realise I ……………………(lose) my credit cards until I ………………………..(try) to pay for
dinner at the restaurant.
9 I …………………………………(write) an email to my sister when she ………………………….(ring)
me.
10 She was so upset by the news that she ……………………………(drop) her tea
and………………………………(start) crying.