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Narrator: Eight. You hear a man talking about buying a new car. Vocabulary
Man: I’m looking around for a new car at the moment. I don’t really Phrasal verbs
want to get rid of my current one, but as it’s eight years old, I think
I should sell it now before it completely loses all its value. My kids 1
are growing up fast, so I could probably do with a larger model 1 G 2 H 3 E 4 A 5 B 6 C 7 F 8 D
anyway. I’ve never been a car person – as long as it gets me from
one place to another without breaking down, I don’t really care 2
about anything else. I don’t want to pay a fortune for it – you’ll 1 ended up 2 came across 3 thrown herself into 4 count on
never see me in a luxury car – but if I need to pay a bit extra for the 5 went on 6 came along 7 ran out of 8 came up against
right car, I’d be happy to.
Listening Part 2
Reading and Use of English Part 2
1 hobby 2 cool 3 street 4 space
1 such 2 of 3 the 4 to 5 bookshop 6 pottery 7 (good) (video) camera 8 100,000
5 with 6 been 7 by 8 if / though / when 9 (very) wealthy 10 (TV) (production) company

Track 3
Writing
Narrator: You will hear a man called Michael Flannery talking about his
My sisters and I work restoring and selling antique furniture. For questions 1 to 10,
I am so glad Im I’m not an only child. Of course, my parents are grate great, complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.
but they don’t always understand the problems of being young. Thats Man: I restore and sell mid-century furniture for a living. You know the
That’s when I appreciete appreciate having sisters. I’m in the middle of type I mean – Scandinavian-style wooden furniture from the 1950s
two sisters and we spend all our time together. They are my best friends and 60s. It all started as a bit of a hobby when I bought my house
and we get on really well. Of corse, course, we sometimes ight – for but had no money for furniture. My house dates from the 1950s, so
example, if I borrow a sister’s cloths clothes without permision permission when my grandparents let me take some things from their attic, I
or if our bedroom gets to too messy. They are much tidyer tidier than me. found they really suited the style of the house. What I irst thought
We do’nt don’t usually have many problems but if I argue whit with one of as old-fashioned was actually quite cool. When people saw the
furniture, they were so impressed with how I’d brought it all back
sister, there is always the other one to talk to? . We have the same taist to life with sandpaper and a bit of paint that they started giving me
taste in music, too. I think that without my sisters’ sisters, life would be pieces they came across. Soon my friends were arriving at the house
very boring. would Would I like to have a brother, too? I’m not so sure. I with a chest of drawers or a side table, saying, ‘Look what I found in
think I like having sisters more. the street! I thought you might like it.’ I think people are tired of good
solid furniture going into landill just because they don’t have the
Unit 2 Leisure and pleasure space for it. They also realise that there might be someone else who
has a need for it.
It got to the stage where my house was not only furnished, but I had PDF from sachtienganhhanoi.com
Grammar too much furniture, so I tried selling some of it on a weekend market
stall. I couldn’t believe how well it went, and the prices that people
Making comparisons were willing to pay for things that had cost me virtually nothing.
Eventually I took the risk of giving up my job at a bookshop because
1 I no longer had my weekends free to restore the furniture. That
1 much hotter 5 much meant I could work on the furniture during the week, and then sell it
2 much more dificult 6 far on Saturdays and Sundays. My mum even reduced her hours at the
3 more, a better 7 much faster, more easily factory where she works, so she could lend a hand at the weekend
4 more 8 as good as when it got busy.
2 To make my stall look unique, I started buying mid-century pottery
1 as relaxing as / more relaxing than 5 even faster from other dealers at the market. This really worked, and my sales
2 correct 6 less complicated than almost doubled. I think sometimes people need style ideas to
3 as expensive as 7 (much) more enjoyable than boost their imagination, and adding items to the furniture, such
as cushions on chairs, or lamps on top of sideboards, helps people
4 correct 8 correct
imagine how the furniture could look in their house.
Adjectives with -ed and -ing I wanted some equipment to ilm the furniture projects while I did
them – something a bit more professional than just a phone – so
3 the next thing I did was buy myself a good video camera. Then I
1 boring 2 astonished 3 worried 4 puzzled started an online channel with how-to guides on restoring furniture
5 motivating 6 irritated 7 exhausting 8 excited and information on how I get my stock. I can’t just rely on people
giving me stuf now, though it does still happen. I get most of the
furniture from garage sales, and I ilm myself walking around them
4 buying things. Strangely enough, people ind these videos really
Adjective Verb Noun relaxing to watch and I have more than 100,000 subscribers. It’s
amazing how quickly it happened – I was thrilled when I irst reached
bored/boring to bore boredom ten thousand!
confuse/confusing to confuse confusion
embarrassed/embarrassing to embarrass embarrassment
excited/exciting to excite excitement
exhausted/exhausting to exhaust exhaustion
irritated/irritating to irritate irritation
motivated/motivating to motivate motivation
worried/worrying to worry worry
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