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Vocabulary and grammar review Unit 7

Vocabulary Grammar

1 Complete these sentences with the correct form of the ‘money verbs’ in 3 Combine sentences in the
the box. following extracts from fi lm
reviews, using these ways of
afford cost earn hire make pay rent sell spend linking ideas:

t relative clauses
I’d love to own a sports car, but I can’t one.
I’ll be working in Prague for two years. Hopefully we’ll a fl at near t participle clauses
the city centre. t apposition

My brother works in a fast-food restaurant. He only £120 a week.
I’ve decided to my motorbike and get a car. 1 Libero
We’ve a jazz band to play at the party on Saturday. A boy tries to understand his
Do you know what police offi cers when they fi nish their training? family. He tries to stop it from
Those jeans a fortune, but it’s really the designer label you’re breaking apart. At the same time
for. he has to deal with his mother’s

It’s amazing how much people on birthday presents for their absence. He finds all this very

boyfriends or girlfriends. difficult. The boy is only eleven
years old.
2 For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C
or D) best fits each gap. www.english0905.com

2 Be Kind Rewind
A man unintentionally destroys
For 70 years now the radio programme Desert Island Discs has managed that every tape in a video store. The
(0) C feat – to be both enduring and relevant. By choosing as (1) on man’s name is Black. His brain
the programme the biggest names of the (2) in science, business, politics, becomes magnetised. The
showbiz, sport and the arts, it (3) a cross-sectional snapshot of the store is owned by Black’s best
times in which we (4) . As the decades have passed, the programme has friend. Black and his friend feel
kept (5) : never frozen in time yet always, somehow, comfortingly the same. sorry for the store’s most loyal
customer. This customer is an
Desert Island Discs has recently (6) its 70th birthday. Since its inception in
January 1942, nearly 3,000 distinguished people from all (7) of life have elderly woman. She is losing
been stranded on the imaginary island, accompanied only by their eight favourite her memory. The two men set
records. This new book, by the programme’s (8) presenter, chronicles the out to remake the lost fi lms.
story of one of British radio’s favourite programmes. These fi lms include The Lion
King and RoboCop.

" occasional B odd C rare D scarce 3 I Am Legend
A visitors B guests C friends D performers A military scientist is left
A day B time C generation D date completely alone in New
A shows B displays C represents D presents York. The city is deserted.
A exist B are C live D survive A virus has wiped out the
A pace B step C speed D time human race. The scientist
A observed B celebrated C honoured D memorised is played by Will Smith. The
A ways B types C kinds D walks film is based on a sci-fi novel

A current B existing C living D contemporary by Richard Matheson.

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