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Vocabulary
achieve, carry out and devote; stay, spend and pass; make, cause and have

1 Choose the correct option in italics.
1 I love spending / passing my days of in the garden.
2 Why don’t you stay / spend at home if you’re feeling ill? PDF from sachtienganhhanoi.com
3 Humans blink so much we spend / pass two seconds a minute with our eyes closed!
4 I wish you wouldn’t stay / spend so late at work every night.
5 I can’t believe how fast the time has spent / passed on this holiday.
6 My parents used to spend / pass too much time watching TV, so they decided to give it away.

2 Match the beginnings (1–6) with the endings (a–f) of these sentences.
1 It seems scientists are making a an impact on how people perceive you.
2 The way you present yourself to the world has b patience or you will lose enthusiasm.
3 It has taken a while but the government is now making c great confusion in the workplace.
4 Think about whether your comments might cause d an efort to tackle climate change.
5 The constant changes in employment laws cause e ofence before you post them online.
6 I know you want to learn German quickly, f progress towards a cure for many diseases.
but you have to have

3 Complete the table with the nouns in the box. One noun can go in more than one column.

an ambition energy to an improvement an instruction an objective
an order one’s life to research success a test a threat time to

achieve carry out devote

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