Getting started

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Ej 1
Comments and opinions about laws and freedoms that you have when you turn 18.

Ej 2
1c 2a

Ej 3
B
1. Because she disagrees with the idea of people running important political o ces at the age of
18.
2. Because in Italy the age to become minister or tu run a political o ce is 18, but in Wales it is 25
and 50.
C
3. Because he believes that at 18 people aren’t mature enough to drink without overdoing it.
4. Rise the legal age to drink to 21.
D
5. Because you can spend more that what you have in your credit card and then not be able to
pay for it.
6. Drinking.

Ej 4
1 turned
2 milestone
3 involved
4 overdoing
5 handle

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Ej 1
Positive: cheer on, acquire, browse, obey, trust, apologise to, revise, purchase, exchange.
Negative: make fun of, mislead, enforce, look down on, delete, misunderstand, terrify, avoid,
tempt, punish.

Ej 2
1. Perceive. The other ones are negative.
2. Scam. The other ones refer to movements with apps.
3. Prevent. The others refer to go over something
4. Recording. The others refer to
5 Valuable. The others are negative adjectives.
6 venue. The others are synonyms of brave
7 Cautious. The other ones are referring to something good.

Ej 3
1g 2l 3b 4k 5i 6h 7j 8o 9n 10f 11e 12a 13m 14d 15c

Ej 4
1in 2.of 3.in 4.out 5.on 6.into 7.up 8.on 9.by 10.up 11.up 12.on 13.out 14.at 15.down

Ej 5
1 valuable
2 harmful
3 hazardous
4 relationship
5 predictions
6 distruptive
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7 mysterious
8 equality

Ej 6
1 inactive
2 irresponsible
3 rebuilt
4 illegal
5 megacelebrity
6 underpaid
7 misheard

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Ej 1
1. are you doing
2. I’m waiting
3. don’t feel
4. takes me
5. use
6. need
7. wanted
8. thought
9. didn’t have
10. were working
11. was having
12. doesn’t mean

Ej 2
1. Changes
2. Did you pass
3. Don’t believe
4. was studying
5. Are you planning
6. Didn’t vote
7. Were driving
8. am thinking

Ej 3
1. How often does Ron send messages to you?
He writes to me everyday.
2. Do we meet Fiona tonight?
No, she's busy.
3. When did Partick get his driving licence?
Last month.
4. Why does your mom phone you now?
She probably wants me to go home.
5 Do you want to get a jop this year?
Yes, I do.
6. Why do you look at you phone during the lesson?
I was checking the hour.

Ej 4
1d has been saving
2f have just signed up
3a had dropped
 4c hasn’t decided
5e Have you been waiting
6b haven’t seen

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Ej 5.
1.partying all night
2. misspelled a word
3. cleaned your bedroom 4.passed my math exam 5.living there for 2 years 6.never been
here
-Future tenses
1.Future simple as it is a prediction
2.Future simple as it expresses intentions
3.Be going to as it is a plan
4.Future Continuous as it describes a continuous action in the future
5.Future perfect as it is an action that will have been completed at some point in the future

Ej 6.
1. A. are you going to start B.will start reading
2. A. will break B.will not drop
3.A. will broadcast
B.are you going to watch
4.A. will pass
B. am going to study

Ej 7.
1.will be looking
2. will be using 3.will have spent 4. will be preparing 5. will not have left 6.will be teaching
7. will have lived
8. will have handed in

Ej 8.
1.have you ever heard 2. had reached
3. had attended
4. will buy
5. have I read
6. have dreamt
7. am nally making 8. will be ying
9. have studied

10. I will have become 11. I will be living

12. will have turned

Ej 9.
1.After having served in parliament for six years, she ran for prime minister 2. By the time
you get here I will have packed everything
3. I have not played guitar for a year now
4. Does this bike belong to you?
5. At 9.00 the lm will have been playing for 30 minutes 6. When did Betsy turn 18?
7. I have been training at this gym since June
8. Mike did not drink enough while running the marathon
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Ej 1
1b 2c

Ej 2
1F He wore a wig with white curly hair.
2T Marie Antoinette's of cial biographer argued that this uncaring response would have
been completely out of character for her.
3F The French emperor is remembered for having been incredibly short.

Ej 3
1people knew that the earth was round.

Ej 4
1 Because she said “let them eat cake” even before than Marie Antoniette.
2 That we should remember to do our own research before believing things to be true.

Ej 5
1 entirely
2 famous
3 unreliable
4 average
5 rst place
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