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Unit
They’ve met in many occasions but they’ve never 3 For questions 1–12, write action, event, programme or
become friends. activity in each gap. Most of the sentences are from
Unfortunately, we are overloaded with printing jobs the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
in busy times of the day, so you cannot count on your After weeks of frenetic , the job was
order being dealt with immediately. finally finished.
We have some suggestions about what to do if the I looked in the to find out the
weather is bad in the day of the boat trip. actor’s name.
You’ll have to sit an exam in the end of this course. It only needs a small wrist to start

QBHF -BOHVBHF SFGFSFODF Prepositions in time the process.
expressions Our special guest on the tonight is
Daniel Day Lewis.
She wrote a strong letter to the paper complaining
Vocabulary about the council’s in closing the

action activity event BOE programme town centre to traffic during the festival.
Susannah’s party was the social of
1 The words action, activity, event and programme the year.
each have two or three meanings. Match the four
words with their definitions (a–i) from the Cambridge
Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

1 action 2 activity 3 event 4 programme

B a broadcast on television or radio
C a particular thing that happens, especially something
important or unusual
D something intentionally done to deal with a problem or
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E a situation in which a lot of things are happening or Tennis is a very relaxing spare-time .
people are moving around The school offers an exciting and varied
F a physical movement of social events.
G a plan of activities to be done or things to be achieved The women’s 200-metre will be
H a thin book or piece of paper giving information about followed by the men’s 100 metres.
a play or musical or sports event, usually bought at the There was a sudden flurry of when
theatre or place where the event happens the director walked in.
I one of a set of races or competitions This problem calls for swift from the
J something that is done for enjoyment, especially government.
something organised such as a sport or hobby We had expected to arrive an hour late, but in the
we were early.
2 Complete these sentences from Listening Part 1 with
action, event, programme or activity in the correct
form. Then decide which definition (a–i) in Exercise 1
corresponds with the word in each sentence.
They began to believe they were no longer totally at
the mercy of natural .
They could take to harness these
phenomena.
Will people lose interest in Olympic
when athletes no longer break records?
There are treaties which prohibit nuclear explosions
from being used in space . 4 Look back at Exercise 3 and note any collocations
What would they engage in during you can find with action, event, programme or activity,
all this time? for example, frenetic activity.

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