Module 2
A2 Worksheet 3
Full Name (Given + Last): _______________________________
READING
Reading I
FANTASY ISLANDS
A fantasy is something or somewhere in your imagination that is perfect for you. Read about these two islands. Which one is your fantasy island?
Peaceful Island
Come to Peaceful Island if you want to have a calm, quiet and relaxing time.
The island is only about 10 kilometres around the coast, and much of its centre is taken up by a lagoon of clear, calm water –more beautiful than any other lagoon in the world. There are beaches around the lagoon and all along the sea coast.
Peaceful Island also has a mysterious temple at the top of its one small hill – a beautiful and very old place to pray.
The population here is small, only 3,000 people. There are a lot of small and pleasant restaurants to eat in, but at night there is little to do here except relax in your beach house, watch the stars and listen to the sea. It really is the most peaceful place you could hope to find.
Wild Island
Come to Wild Island if you want to have interesting and exciting new experiences.
This island is 12 kilometres long and 5 kilometres wide, but most of the island is filled with wild forests and unusual animals. There are also some high hills and impressive scenery such as waterfalls. There are not many beaches on this island, but there are so many other things you can do here – have a forest adventure, go looking for strange animals or climb Mount
High at the centre of the island to see the impressive views from the top.
There is quite a large population living in towns on the coast – about 40,000 people. In the towns there are lots of restaurants, bars and nightclubs. By day and by night, this island is wilder than any other!
1 Answer these questions from the text.
1 What does ‘fantasy’ mean? ______________________________________________
2 What does ‘temple’ mean? ______________________________________________
3 What superlative can describe Peaceful Island’s lagoon? ______________________
4 What superlative can describe Wild Island? _________________________________
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2 Write sentences comparing Peaceful Island and Wild Island. Use the prompts given.
1 (large) Wild Island is larger than Peaceful Island.
2 (calm) ______________________________________________________________
3 (exciting) ____________________________________________________________
4 (crowded) ___________________________________________________________
5 (romantic) ___________________________________________________________
Reading II
UNUSUAL WAYS OF KEEPING FIT
Korfball
A mixture between handball and basketball, korfball is a fast exciting game. The main difference is that men and women play on the same team. İt’s also a great way to keep fit! The game began in the Netherlands about 100 years ago, and there are now korfball clubs in more than forty countries around the world. There are eight players on each team- four males and four females- and each player tries to throw the ball (similar to a soccer ball) into the ‘goal’ which is a bit like a basket but bigger. You can’t touch your opponent, kick or run with the ball, and men can only attack against men and women can only defend against women. A game lasts for sixty minutes and the teams change ends after every two goals. ‘It’s a terrific sport and a great way to meet people’, says Paul Dicks of the British Korfball Association.
Tai-chi
Tai-chi is a Chinese martial art which goes back thousands of years. It is different from most forms of exercise in that it is very gentle. It consists of a series of slow movements which you must do very carefully and exactly. The big advantage is that you can do it anywhere, anytime and you don’t have to be a member of a club or use any expensive equipment-all you need is a qualified teacher! Tai-chi fans say it is an excellent way of getting rid of stress. Early in the morning, you can see people doing the gentle movements of tai-chi in parks all over China, and it is now common in the west too. So what’s the secret of tai-chi? ‘Mind and body working together’, says one enthusiast.
Gaming for fitness
Most people don’t see playing video games as a way of keeping fit. You sit on the floor, or on the sofa and look at the screen… and the only part of your body that moves is your thumb.
But that’s all changing… Thanks to a brand new game from Japan called dance dance revolution, gamers are now getting onto the exercise floor. In this case, the floor consists of nine squares. You put one foot in the centre and move your other foot to the dance music that gets faster and faster as you go through the levels. ‘Most gamers just want to go to a fantasy world when they play a video game, but why not have games which are physical as well?’ says one DDR fan. So, who knows? Perhaps the gamers in the future will be fit and healthy people-thanks to dance dance revolution.
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3. Answer the questions (full sentences):
1.
When and where did korfball begin?
2.
How many players are there in a team?
3.
Is tai-chi an old or a new sport?
4.
Which country does tai-chi come from?
5.
Which part of the body people who play video games use the most?
6.
Is dance dance revolution a physical exercise?
4. Are these sentences about the text true or false? Chose the correct answer.
1.
Korfball is a mixture of handball, basketball and soccer. TRUE/FALSE
2.
Women are not allowed in korfball teams. TRUE/FALSE
3.
You can’t touch or kick your opponent in korfball. TRUE/FALSE
4.
Tai-chi is a really intense exercise. TRUE/FALSE
5.
You don’t need an expensive equipment to do tai-chi. TRUE/FALSE
6.
You move your body to the music in dance dance revolutionTRUE/FALSE
VOCABULARY
1.
H ere is some target vocabulary from your coursebooks. Read the sentences and fill in the gaps with the best word. There is one extra word.
bottom offended invite confused damage wedding mountain difficulty coast cliff causes
1.
The tea came out of the cup because there was a hole in the ___________________.
2.
First you get engaged, and then later you have a ___________________.
3.
The old man was ___________________ because there were so many streets and he didn’t know the way.
4.
It is my birthday on Saturday so I would like to ___________________ you to dinner at my house.
5.
Robert hugged the Takeshi, the Japanese business man and this
___________________ Takeshi because it is not normal in Japan.
6.
The rock fell down from the ________
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In what ways does junk food ____________ your health?
8.
What _________ global warming?
9.
Antalya has a very long _________
10.
Everest is the tallest _____________ in the world
2. Read the text and fill in each blank with ONE WORD.
Looking for love
Looking for Love is an agency ____________ (1) finds partners for single people of any age. Read about Lisa.
My name’s Lisa. I’m 25 years old and I’m __________
(2) Manchester. I’m single and I’m looking
___________ (3)love.
I’m a journalist on a local newspaper, which means I
______________ (4) stories about local issues and sometimes I interview politicians. I like my job, but I
__________ (5) like to work on a national newspaper one day. That’s because I want to have the opportunity to work abroad.
I have a small group of friends _____________ (6) I’ve known for years. I even went to school with some of them! I’m not really extrovert but I do like ___________ (7) out and having fun. We usually go out to parties, nightclubs, and restaurants. I also like cooking and I make great pasta! My ideal night in is a good meal, a glass of wine, and a DVD. I like thrillers much more than I like romantic comedies!
I’m not _____________ (8) sporty, but I like to keep fit. I stopped smoking last year and now
I go running twice ______________ (9) week and I sometimes go to the gym
___________(10) weekends. I eat lots of fruit and vegetables and I try not to have red meat or too ____________ (11) coffee. At work, I drink water or tea.
I prefer men who are interested in serious issues because I like _____________ (12) about politics and what’s happening in the world. However, I also like men with a good
____________ (13) of humour. These characteristics are _____________ (14) important to me than physical appearance.
Please contact Looking for Love if you think you’re the kind of _____________ (15) who I’m looking for!
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USE OF ENGLISH-GRAMMAR
Present perfect
3 Use the prompts to write present perfect sentences.
1 He / be / doctor / five years He has been a doctor for five years.
2 We / know / each other / childhood _____________________________
3 I / have / my pet dog / March _____________________________
4 My sister / be / the USA / 11 months _____________________________
5 I / not be / to the dentist / over two years _____________________________
6 They / know / the secret / yesterday _____________________________
4 Choose the correct verb form in each sentence.
1 I lived/have lived in Australia, Korea and Turkey.
2 Did you go/Have you been to the party last night?
3 So far today there were/have been no reports of a missing person.
4 I didn’t go/haven’t been to university yet.
5 Did you go/Have you been to the new nightclub in town?
6 Fifty people applied/have applied for this job last week.
5 Complete the diary with the “present perfect” or “past simple” of the verbs.
A difficult week
On Monday I …………… (lose) my purse. It only ……………. (have) about £3 in it, but I …………. (be) upset, because I …………….. (love) that purse. It …………….
(be) like an old friend.
On Tuesday, I …………… (miss) the bus and …………. (be) late for work.
That’s something I ……………… (not / do) since last winter, when there ……….. (be) lots of snow. Of course, when I ……………. (walk) in late, my boss ………… (give) me a good telling off. What about you, ……………………. (you / ever / be) late for work?
Which brings me to today: for a start, I ………………. (have) a headache all day, and I still have – it ………………… (not / go) away. I’m leaving the office in a few
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minutes, and I can tell you, I ………………… (have) problems from the moment I
…………….. (arrive). At 9.05 my word processor …………… (refuse) to work.
I …………….. (call) one of the technicians, and she ………………. (manage) to sort it out – but that …………… (take) half the morning. They …………………. (promise) me a new one, but it …………….. (not arrive) yet. At lunch, I ………….. (eat) something that
……………….. (not agree) with my stomach, and I …………….. (have) stomach ache all afternoon – it’s still not finished.
So now it’s 5.25 on Wednesday evening and I’m feeling rather nervous – I
……………….. (have) enough trouble already this week, and I don’t need any more! I
…………….. (not / leave) the office yet – I hope nothing else happens in the last five minutes!
Past continuous and past simple
2 Choose the correct verb forms.
1 She was eating/ate an apple when she found a worm in it.
2 They couldn’t get into the cinema while the film was showing/showed.
3 What were you doing/did you do at the time when the police caught you?
4 When Stephen was arriving home/arrived home, I was eating dinner.
5 The student don’t listen/wasn’t listening when the teacher gave the instruction.
Past simple
3 Rearrange the words to make sentences.
1 went I on a trip Africa through year Last. Last year I went on a trip through Africa.
2 didn’t clothes me I enough bring with. __________________________________
3 you eat What on food did trip your? __________________________________
4 send needed me extra to some My food friends. ________________________
5 Africa you to enjoy visit Did your? __________________________________
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Present perfect
4 Choose the correct verb form in each sentence.
1 I lived/have lived in Canada and Turkey.
2 Did you go/Have you been to the concert last night?
3 So far today there were/have been no reports.
4 I didn’t go/haven’t been to university yet.
5 Did you go/Have you been to the new cinema in the town?
6 Fifty people applied/have applied for this job yesterday.
Articles
5 Correct the mistakes in the following sentences.
1 Look at this picture. Do you like a dress she is wearing? the dress
2 I don’t really enjoy watching a documentaries. __________________
3 But I did enjoy all documentaries I watched last night. __________________
4 He works for radio station. __________________
5 My brother’s the journalist. He works for big newspaper. __________________
6 I heard a good programme on radio last night. __________________
6 Identify and correct the mistakes in the following sentences.
1 Scientists are believing that global warming causes great environmental damage.
Scientists believe that global warming causes great environmental damage.
2 Today the weather is very bad. Right now, it rains a lot.
_________________________________________________________________
3 Nowadays, many people is moving to countries with fewer weather problems.
_________________________________________________________________
4 Do the temperature rising in most countries?
_________________________________________________________________
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PART 1
QUESTIONS 1-5
Which notice (A-H) says this (1-5)?
For questions 1-5, mark the correct letter A-H .
Example:
0 You can take your old shirts or trousers here. Answer:
1 These cost less than usual.
2 This is a bad time to be ill.
3 Be careful where you put this.
4 You will need to take a heavy sweater or jacket with you.
5 You will not be able to wash yourself here for a few days.
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C
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PART 2
QUESTIONS 6-10
Read the sentences about cooking a meal.
Choose the best word (A, B or C) for each space.
For questions 6-10, circle A, B or C.
Example:
0 Last week, Louise…………some friends at her new school.
A made B started C played
6 She…………… all of them to dinner at her house on Saturday evening.
A phoned B invited C said
7 Louise wrote the things she needed to buy for the meal on a……………of paper.
A piece B slice C part
8 She was…………..on Saturday morning so she went shopping in the afternoon.
A full B busy C difficult
9 Louise……………two hours cooking the meal.
A waited B spent C passed
10 When the meal was ………….., everyone sat down to eat.
A right B sure C ready
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