English Language Exercises: Unit 1 Vocabulary and Grammar
Unit 1 Level 1
Ex 1 1. factual, opinion / 2. influential, changed / 3. acceptable, offend / 4. significance, understand / 5. harmless, bite / 6. improvement, better.
Ex 2 1. Ban / 2. Connection / 3. Owner / 4. Request / 5. Attempt / 6. path / 7. Necessity.
Upset / 2. Marry / 3. eat with your hands / 4. job interviews / 5. did it wrong / 6. eat together / 7. player football / 8. Awesome
Ex 4 1. Has been studying / 2. Had been using / 3. Haven’t been listening / 4. Has been raining / 5. Had … been shouting / 6. Hadn’t been waiting / 7. Have … been doing
Ex 5 1. How long have you been waiting? / 2. I had never been there to India before. / 3. I have already told you. / 4. He had been travelling all year. / 5. We hadn’t seen each other in for over a month. / 6. I haven’t studied / been studying all week.
Ex 6 1. We haven’t seen a film for three weeks. / 2. We had been saving for months before we were able to buy tickets to Australia. / 3. Sandra has been working at this office since she was 20. / Since she was 20, Sandra has been working at this office. / 4. The artists had seen the museum exhibition before it was opened to the public. / 5. Have you ever visited Rome? / 6. By the time we arrived, Kim had gone to sleep. / Kim had gone to sleep by the time we arrived.
Unit 1 Level 2
Ex 1 1. Luxurious / can’t buy them 2. nationality / he was born in a different country 3. peaceful / we adopted a dog 4. effective / was wrong 5. breakable / must leave it in the floor 6. impressions / you always remember them
Ex 2 1. than a stadium / 2. Attempts / 3. Unfavorable / 4. didn´t interact with me / 5. is going / 6. didn’t want / 7. Line / 8. lot of work.
Ex 3 1. misconceptions / 2. Stereotypes / 3. was considered / 4. Typical / 5. Treacherous / 6. Offensive / 7. Manners / 8. kept alive.
Ex 4 1. Have … finished / 2. has been working / 3. had done / 4. had been ignoring / 5. has … been acting / 6. haven’t heard / 7. had missed.
Ex 5 Possible answers: 1. so the ground is still wet / 2. and there’s no sign of it stopping / 3. so there’s no need to water the plants in the garden / 4. many of the flowers in the garden died / 5. so there isn’t a lot of mud outside / 6. so if we hurry, maybe we can make it home before it starts.
Ex 6 Possible answers: 1. I haven’t been feeling well all week / 2. we had taken off our glasses / 3. since they had met / 4. the waiter had forgotten to bring us our menus / 5. because she has started feeling better / 6. had imagined that it was much bigger.
Optional Reading Unit 1
Ex 1 1. F – “Palm trees play an integral role in the everyday lives of the indigenous communities that live in the tropical rainforests of South America.” “They recorded thousands of ways that palm trees have been used over the centuries.” 2. F – “Many people from these communities are leaving the rainforests and moving to cities in search of jobs.” 3. T – “Over the course of 18 months, they visited 68 indigenous communities in the rainforests of South America …”
Ex 2 1. the traditional knowledge about palms wouldn’t be lost. 2. the potential benefits of traditional knowledge. 3. companies get the consent of these communities to use their knowledge and then share with them any financial gain derived from that knowledge.
Ex 3 a. Ex 4 1. Concerned / 2. in search of / 3. Embark / 4. Remedies / 5. taking advantage of
Listening Unit 1
Answers: 1. a / 2. d / 3. c / 4. d / 5. d / 6. d / 7. b / 8. D