Unit 12: Prepositions+

Prepositions+

Complete the spaces with an appropriate preposition.

01. It was a race AGAINST the clock to get the menus printed in time for the opening.

02. In a restaurant the maitre d' is the person IN charge OVER all the the waiters.

03. It's typical OF you to order the most expensive dish in the restaurant!

04. Welcome to Food Matters. In tonight's programme the focus is ON Mediterranean food.

05. Luis has a reputation FOR eating too quickly.

06. Ravioli is usually filled WITH minced meat or cheese.

07. The emphasis in this restaurant is ON quality, not quantity.

08. All the wedding guests were full of praise FOR the chef.

Have, Put, Take & Give

Match the beginning of each sentence (numbers) with the suitable ending (letters).

01. He had both...E...his legs in plaster for 6 weeks.

02. he had another... D...operation on his leg.

03. They put him...G...on a course of antibiotics.

04. She put a...A...plaster on her cut.

05. They gave him...B...an injection in his leg.

06. He gave her...H...a prescription, which she took to the chemist's.

07. She took a...F...pill for her headache.

08. He took his...C...own temperature.

due: October 22nd, 2010

Assignment: Unit 12

Unit 12: Looking After Yourself

pg.146:
LF1: Countable/Uncountable NounsA-1/2

pg.147:
LF2: Countable/Uncountable NounsB

pg.148/149:
Reading: 1/2
LF3: Reported Speech-1/2/3/4/5

pg.150:
LF4: Reporting Verbs-1/2/3/4

pg.151:
Use of English1: Multiple-choice Cloze-1/2/3

pg.152/153:

Writing1: 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8
LF5: Reported Questions-1/2/3

pg.154:
Vocab. (Health Matters)-1/2/3/4
Word Formation: noun suffixes-1/2/3

pg.155:
Use of English2
Writing2

pg.156/157 (Review):
all sections

due: October 22nd, 2010

Units 11 & 12: Additional Practice

Transformation #4

Transform the second sentence in each section, using 2-5 words. Don't change the KEY word and don't change the meaning of the sentence.

01. She had not bought so much for a long time.

SINCE

It was a long time SINCE SHE NOT much shopping.

02. Rodolfo arrived there twelve months ago.

FOR

Rodolfo HAS BEEN THERE FOR A year.

03. If Melissa hadn't failed her driving test, she wouldn't be unhappy.

PASS

Melissa is unhappy BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T PASS her driving test.

04. Rabbits used to be more numerous.

NOT

Rabbits ARE NOT SO NUMEROUS AS they used to be.

05. His new book has been widely criticized.

LOT

His new book has come A LOT OF criticism.

06. His secretary updated the list.

BROUGHT

His secretary BROUGHT THE LIST TO date.

07. I couldn't have managed it without your help.

NOT

If I HAD NOT RECEIVED your help, I couldn't have managed it.

08. Regular exercise kept him healthy.

OWED

He _____ regular exercise.

09. He couldn't lend us the car because it didn't belong to him.

HIS

The car _____ lend.

10. We were not surprised when he won.

CAME

His winning DIDN'T CAME A surprise.

due: October 22nd, 2010

Unit 11: Error Correction

Read the following text carefully. Some of the lines are correct and some have an extra word which should not be there. If the line is correct, place an X in the space. If the line has an extra word, write that word in the space provided.

Bad Weather

0 I'm writing to you from our hotel room on the Mediterranean island of............... X

00 Mallorca. Unfortunately, I can't tell to tell you very much about the island...... to

1 because we've had such a terrible weath that we've hardly been out of................A

2 the hotel since we have arrived. On our very first day here the sky was............. HAVE

3 overcast and the temperature was about 20ºC, much lower than......................... X

4 normal is at this time of year. Then, the next day, we woke up to the.................. IS

5 sound like of torrential rain beating against the windows, and it's been................ LIKE

6 pouring with almost non stop ever since. We'd have brought more books............ WITH

7 and games with us if we would have known it was going to be like this-................ X

8 the kids are beginning to get bored with playing cards all the time. Poor.............. X

9 Katie was really looking forward to go swimming in the sea, but it's far................ GO

10 too rough for that and she can't even go in the pool, which it has been................ IT

11 closed. The weather forecast says us that it should begin to improve by............. US

12 the end of the week, but some of the shopkeepers we've spoken to in the.......... X

13 town of Palma aren't so optimistic-they think it might well go on......................... X

14 raining for longer. We've decided that unless it will brightens up in the............... WILL

15 next few days, we'll probably come home a week earlier than had planned. ...... HAD

due: October 10th, 2010

Assignment: Unit 11

Unit 11: What on Earth's Going On?

pg.134/135: Vocab.01-1/3 Multiple Matching-1/2

pg.136:Language Focus.01-A/B/C Practice: 1/2

pg.137:Conditionals: Expressing Regret

pg.138/139:Vocab.02-A (1 & 2)/B (1)

pg.140:Reading

pg.141:LF2-1/2 Use of English-Open Cloze (1/2/3)

pg.144/145 (Review):all sections

due: October 10th, 2010