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Vocabulary Reading and Use of English Part 4
Verb collocations with activities

1 Choose the correct option in italics. In Part 4, it is useful to think about what
1 I’m really looking forward to going / playing the question is trying to test. Is it a phrasal
windsuring when we’re on holiday at the lake. verb, the use of words in a ixed phrase or
2 My dad has been making / doing a lot of exercise a grammar point?
because he felt unit.
3 Rachel is going to compete in / play a triathlon For questions 1–8, complete the second sentence so that it
this weekend.
has a similar meaning to the irst sentence, using the word
4 How long have you been playing / doing golf? given. Do not change the word given. You must use between
5 He didn’t start to do / play weightliting until two and ive words, including the word given. Here is an
he was 50.
example (0).
6 The city has held / done the King’s Mile Run every
spring for more than 100 years. Example:
0 We didn’t get lost because I brought the compass.
look, see and watch; listen and hear HAVE
If I hadn’t brought the compass, we would have got lost.
2 Complete the sentences using the correct form of look, 1 The tour guide’s suggestion was to take a diferent route
see, watch, listen or hear. One of the answers is negative. down the mountain.
1 I managed the hole-in-one at the golf TAKING
tournament because I was following that player. The tour guide alternative route down
2 I really enjoy Wimbledon on TV the mountain.
every year.
2 Even though they had one less player, the team still won.
3 She the roar of the crowd as she
overtook the lead runner. DESPITE
The team was able to one less player.
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never improve. 3 The risk of sharks meant very few people went
5 The umpire at the cricket pitch and swimming there.
decided it was too wet to play on. SWAM
6 There must have been 70,000 people Hardly because of the risk of sharks.
the game at the stadium.
4 What annoys me is people leaving rubbish on the
3 Correct the mistakes with look, see, watch, listen and forest trails.
hear in the sentences. Some of the sentences are FIND
correct.
I that people leave rubbish on the
1 Katherine saw at her watch to check what time forest trails.
it was.
5 She survives on just four hours’ sleep a night when she’s
2 You obviously weren’t listening when I explained the sailing alone.
rules of the game.
BY
3 He could see the lead cyclist just ahead of him, so he
started to pedal faster. When she’s sailing alone, she just four
hours sleep a night.
4 I can listen to music in the other room, but I don’t
know what song it is. 6 The doctor checked Michael’s blood pressure before he
5 I watched Jack’s car parked in front of the house, so I went skydiving.
knew he was home. HAD
6 She got up in the middle of the night because she Michael by the doctor before he
listened to the baby crying. went skydiving.
7 Sophie doesn’t usually watch TV in the morning – she
reads the newspaper instead.
8 I watched she was busy talking to someone, so I
waited to speak to her later.

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