unit 11

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Instructions: Choose the correct option (a or b).

____ 1. Mum ____ us she would be late home and not to wait for her for dinner.
a. told
b. said
____ 2. My grandmother always used to ____ that one day we would live in space.
a. say
b. tell
____ 3. Did David ____ you about his plans for the summer?
a. say
b. tell
____ 4. My husband ____ me a funny joke this morning.
a. say
b. told
____ 5. We're setting ____ on the walk early before it gets too hot.
a. off
b. about
____ 6. We set ____ camp by the river and lit a fire.
a. up
b. off
____ 7. They set ____ to change the world but they soon realised that wasn't going to happen quickly.
a. up
b. out
____ 8. When we moved in to our new house, Mum quickly set ____ making it as comfortable as possible.
a. about
b. up

Completion
Complete each statement.

Instructions: Complete the sentence with the correct form of used to and the verb in brackets.

1. People _____________________________ their clothes in the river. (wash)

2. When I was a child, I _____________________________ a lot. (cry)

3. Before television and radio, people _____________________________ themselves by singing and telling
stories. (entertain)
 4. In my grandmother's village, they _____________________________ electricity. (not have)

5. A hundred years ago people _____________________________ as long as they do nowadays. (not live)

6. _____________________________ you _____________________________ to school? (walk)

7. What time _____________________________ you _____________________________ to bed when you

were a small child? (go)

8. Which gym _____________________________ your sister _____________________________ keep fit

classes in? (have)

Instructions: Complete the reported speech sentence.

9. ‘Every day I have lunch at a restaurant.’

Mr Philips said that every day _________________________________________________.

10. ‘I usually walk to work.’

I told them that _________________________________________________.

11. ‘We're going to that new art gallery.’

The students said that _________________________________________________.

12. ‘I'm meeting Sam for coffee later.’

Nick said that _________________________________________________.

13. ‘We were in Paris at the weekend.’

My friends told me that _________________________________________________.

14. ‘The children visited Grandma in hospital.’

The children's mother told me that _________________________________________________.

15. ‘I've booked the flights to New York.’

Dad told us that _________________________________________________.

16. ‘I've finally finished decorating the whole house.’

Mum said that _________________________________________________.

17. ‘I'll see you on Monday.’

Jane told me that _________________________________________________.

 18. ‘We will do everything we can to help your mother.’

My neighbour told me that _________________________________________________.

19. ‘I rented a car and drove all round the island.’

Jamie said that _________________________________________________.

20. ‘Kids, we're having lunch in the garden today.’

Mum told us that _________________________________________________.

Short Answer

Instructions: Write the words from the description.

1. This is a person who studies the past.

______________________________

2. These people study how people from the past lived by looking at their houses and belongings.

______________________________

3. This is a person who travels into space.

______________________________

4. This person climbs mountains.

______________________________

5. This is what you call a person who works to protect a natural place.

______________________________

6. This is a person who goes to or finds places that people don't usually go to.

______________________________

7. A person who goes somewhere on holiday.

______________________________

8. The Aztecs used to make this when an animal was killed to please a god.

______________________________
 9. This means to dig in an area to find objects from the past.

______________________________

10. This is a metal or stone image.

______________________________

Instructions: Put the sentences of an introduction to a presentation in order.

11. Reorder the following:

A. After the film show, we'll have a short break.

B. Then I'll describe what happened and what we saw.
C. Finally, there will be an informal drinks party where we can chat and you can meet the
other members of my team.
D. As you know, I'm going to talk to you about my recent expedition to the Amazon.
E. As I describe our adventures, I'll be showing you photographs and a short film.
F. When we return after the break, you can ask me any questions about any part of the
expedition.
G. Good morning and thank you all for coming here this today.
H. First of all I'd like to explain why we decided to go to this particular place.

Sentence 1 ____
Sentence 2 ____
Sentence 3 ____
Sentence 4 ____
Sentence 5 ____
Sentence 6 ____
Sentence 7 ____
Sentence 8 ____

Instructions: Read the text. Five sentences have been taken out of the dialogue. Match the gaps (1–5) with
the sentences (A–E).

12. Match the following:

A. It's the coldest place on Earth;

B. They were, of course, right.
C. Not much life – animal or plant – can survive there and there are no native people from
there.
D. and twice as large as Australia.
E. Although nobody had been to the Antarctica and the South Pole, the Greeks believed that
it had to be there.

Antarctica, which means the opposite of the Arctic, was named by the ancient Greeks. (1) ____ They knew all
about the Arctic and they were sure that another cold place had to exist at the other end of the world to keep
the Earth balanced. (2) ____
 Antarctica is a huge place, a whole continent in fact, and it is more than fifty times bigger than Britain (3) ____
Only one per cent of it is not covered in ice  ice that can be more than five kilometres thick in some places.
Conditions there are very difficult. It's very cold. (4) ____ colder than the Arctic because it's much higher. Most
of Antarctica is about two kilometres above sea level. It's also very windy and it rarely rains. (5) ____
However, many governments send researchers there and the number of researchers there varies from between
one thousand to five thousand at any one time.

(1) ____
(2) ____
(3) ____
(4) ____
(5) ____

True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Instructions: Listen to a historian. Are the sentences true or false? Write true or false.

____ 1. Scott went to Antarctica alone.

____ 2. Scott never got to the South Pole.

____ 3. The hut is being destroyed by snow.

____ 4. Everything in the hut is exactly as it was a hundred years ago.

____ 5. The hut is unique.

Essay
 1. Imagine that you are famous  you can choose why you are famous. Write a fictional
biography of your 'famous' self.
unit 11
Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133

OBJ: Vocabulary TOP: 'say' or 'tell'
2. ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133
OBJ: Vocabulary TOP: 'say' or 'tell'
3. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133
OBJ: Vocabulary TOP: 'say' or 'tell'
4. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133
OBJ: Vocabulary TOP: 'say' or 'tell'
5. ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p134
OBJ: Vocabulary TOP: 'set'
6. ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p134
OBJ: Vocabulary TOP: 'set'
7. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p134
OBJ: Vocabulary TOP: 'set'
8. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p134
OBJ: Vocabulary TOP: 'set'

COMPLETION

1. ANS: used to wash

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p131 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: 'used to'
2. ANS: used to cry

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p131 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: 'used to'
3. ANS: used to entertain

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p131 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: 'used to'
4. ANS:
did not use to have
didn't use to have

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p131 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: 'used to'
5. ANS:
did not use to live
didn't use to live
 PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p131 OBJ: Grammar
TOP: 'used to'
6. ANS: Did, use to walk

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p131 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: 'used to'
7. ANS: did, use to go

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p131 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: 'used to'
8. ANS: did, use to have

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p131 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: 'used to'
9. ANS: he had lunch at a restaurant

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: Reported speech
10. ANS: I usually walked to work

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: Reported speech
11. ANS: they were going to that new art gallery

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: Reported speech
12. ANS: he was meeting Sam for coffee later

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: Reported speech
13. ANS:
they had been in Paris at the weekend
they’d been in Paris at the weekend

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: Reported speech
14. ANS:
they had visited Grandma in hospital
they’d visited Grandma in hospital

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: Reported speech
15. ANS:
he had booked the flights to New York
he’d booked the flights to New York

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: Reported speech
16. ANS:
she had finally finished decorating the whole house
 she’d finally finished decorating the whole house

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: Reported speech
17. ANS:
she would see me on Monday
she’d see me on Monday

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: Reported speech
18. ANS:
they would do everything they could to help my mother
they’d do everything they could to help my mother

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: Reported speech
19. ANS:
he had rented a car and had driven all over the island
he’d rented a car and had driven all over the island

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: Reported speech
20. ANS: we were having lunch in the garden that day

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p133 OBJ: Grammar

TOP: Reported speech

SHORT ANSWER

1. ANS:
(a) historian

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p129 OBJ: Vocabulary

TOP: Different types of people
2. ANS:
archaeologists

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p130 OBJ: Vocabulary

TOP: Different types of people
3. ANS:
(an) astronaut

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p132 OBJ: Vocabulary

TOP: Different types of people
4. ANS:
(a) mountaineer
(a) climber

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p137 OBJ: Vocabulary

 TOP: Different types of people
5. ANS:
(a) conservationist

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p139 OBJ: Vocabulary

TOP: Different types of people
6. ANS:
(an) explorer

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p139 OBJ: Vocabulary

TOP: Different types of people
7. ANS:
(a) tourist

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p139 OBJ: Vocabulary

TOP: Different types of people
8. ANS:
(a) sacrifice

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p130 OBJ: Vocabulary

TOP: Archaeology
9. ANS:
excavate

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p130 OBJ: Vocabulary

TOP: Archaeology
10. ANS:
(a) statue

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p130 OBJ: Vocabulary

TOP: Archaeology
11. ANS:

Sentence 1 G
Sentence 2 D
Sentence 3 H
Sentence 4 B
Sentence 5 E
Sentence 6 A
Sentence 7 F
Sentence 8 C

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p136 OBJ: Real life

TOP: Giving a short presentation
12. ANS:

(1) E
(2) B
(3) D
(4) A
 (5) C

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 OBJ: Reading TOP: Reading for specific information

TRUE/FALSE

1. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p129

OBJ: Listening TOP: Listening for general meaning MSC: Track 2.27
2. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p129
OBJ: Listening TOP: Listening for general meaning MSC: Track 2.27
3. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p129
OBJ: Listening TOP: Listening for general meaning MSC: Track 2.27
4. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p129
OBJ: Listening TOP: Listening for general meaning MSC: Track 2.27
5. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p129
OBJ: Listening TOP: Listening for general meaning MSC: Track 2.27

ESSAY

1. ANS:
Students' own answers

PTS: 1 REF: Unit 11 p137 OBJ: Writing

TOP: A biography