UNIT 2 Worksheets

Name: Carlos Roberto Nuñez Pineda

Section: A

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 1st Floor:
What a wonderful world!
1. Match the photos with the continents. Then discuss
which of the continents you would like to visit.
a. North America 5

b. South America 7

c. Australasia 1

d. Africa 2

e. Asia 4

f. Antarctica 6

g. Europe 3

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 1st Floor:
What a wonderful world!
2. Read the website and choose the best title for the page.
a. World's top tourist attractions b. Extremes of nature
c. The seven continents
3. Read the website again. Write the correct paragraph
heading in each section.
a. The coldest place b. The lowest point on Earth
c. The deepest lake d. The longest mountain range
e. The highest volcano f. The hottest place
g. The largest island h. The wettest and driest places
i. The longest river

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 1st Floor:
What a wonderful world!
4. Read the website again and find geographical words
for the definitions.
a. a mountain out of which rocks and
lava explode. VOLCANO

b. a line of mountains. MOUNTAIN RAGE

c. a piece of land completely surrounded

by water. Island

d. a flow of water that goes into an

ocean or a lake. river

e. an area of lower land between two

lines of mountains. valley

f. a large area of salty water that is

smaller than an ocean. sea

g. a large area of land where it's hot

and dry and there is a lot of sand. desert

h. an area of water surrounded by land. island

i. an area in the topics with many trees

and plants. jungle

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 1st Floor:
What a wonderful world!
Grammar
Elevator Comparatives and Superlatives
5. Complete the examples with comparative or superlative
adjectives. Use the information in the website to help you.
a. Arica in Chile is than Loro.
b. Mauna Loa is less than Mount Everest.
c. The River Nile is the river in the world.
d. Here are some facts about the most
places on Earth.

6. Match the two halves of the explanation.

a. To make comparative and
superlative sentences with 1-
syllable adjectives... 1. use more/less + adj. + noun
b. To make comparative and
2. use the most/the least + adj.
superlative sentences with
adjectives ending in y...
3. add -er (than) or (the) -est.
c. To make comparative sentences
with 2/3/4-syllable adjectives... 4. change y to i and add -er or -
est.
d. To make superlative sentences
with 2/3/4-syllable adjectives...

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 1st Floor:
What a wonderful world!
8. Listen and mark the and than with S [stressed] or
U [unstressed].

a. Greenland is the largest island.

b. Arica is much drier than Lloro.

c. The River Nile is the longest river.

d. Greenland is much smaller than Australia.

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 2nd Floor:
Trouble in paradise
1. What reality TV shows are popular in our country?
Would you want to enter a reality TV show?
for a reality of tv show as an example would be the program XO GIVE MONEY in which we do a competition of intelligence and contests

2. Listen to Jim Parker, a TV presenter, talking to

Damien, a reality TV show contestant. Are the
contestants enjoying themselves?
Jim Parker is interviewing at a camp doing a real TV show

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 2nd Floor:
Trouble in paradise
3. Listen again and correct the statements.
a. The contestants haven't eaten anything for 48
hours.
The contestants haven´t aeten anything in 24 hours

b. The contestants went swimming yesterday.

The contestants went fishing yesterday

c. Maria saw a spider monkey on the beach.

Maria saw a spider monkey in the camp.

d. Jane saw a bear in the jungle.

Jane saw a snake in the jungle

e. Damien has no time to sunbathe.

damine has lots of time to sunbatlhe

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 2nd Floor:
Trouble in paradise
4. Match the adjectives to the nouns to make
collocations.

a. exotic 1. beaches
b. thick 2. species
c. rough 3. rain forest
d. rocky 4. plants
e. sandy 5. coastline
f. rare 6. seas

5. What other advantages and disadvantages of living

on a tropical island can you think of?
As advantages we have the resources to survive and spend a relaxing vacationand as disadvantages in being very retired we can have commun

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 2nd Floor:
Trouble in paradise
Grammar
Elevator Subject and object questions
6. Read examples 1 and 2 and underline the correct options in
explanations a-c.
1. Subject questions

subject object
Who stole the food?

2. Object questions

object subject
What did Jane do

a. Question 1 asks for information about the subject / the object.

b. Question 2 asks for information about the subject / the object.
c. Subject questions / Object questions include an auxiliary verb.

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 2nd Floor:
Trouble in paradise
7.1. Match the question prompts with the answers from
an interview that happened after the reality show
Castaway finished.

a. camp located? 1. She wants to be a TV presenter

b. arrive on the 2. We ate fresh fish and fruit.
island?
3. Maria won. She got a $100,000
c. steal food on the prize.
first day?
4. We saw some exotic birds and
d. usually eat? a monkey.
e. animals you see? 5. It's on the beach, under the
trees.
f. win?
6. We arrived three weeks ago.
g. Maria plan to do
in the future? 7. The camera crew stole the
food.
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 3rd Floor:
Draw a map

1. Look at the pictures. Do you recognize the places?

What do you know about California?
California has a bridge engineering superstructure has a modern city consisting of forests around it, abundant rocky beaches and also desert pla

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 3rd Floor:
Draw a map
2. Listen to Steve talking about his home state of
California. Check the places that you hear mentioned.
a. Venice Beach f. Sacramento
b. Yosemite g. San Diego
National Park
h. Sierra Nevada
c. Los Angeles Mountains
d. Death Valley i. Mojave Desert
e. Santa Monica j. Joshua Tree
National Park
3. Listen again and mark the statements T [true] or F
[false].
a. California is the second biggest state in the USA. F

b. There are no hot springs in California. F

c. The Sierra Nevada mountains are near Sacramento. T

d. Yosemite National Park is famous for its trees. T

e. Southern California is very wet.

F

f. People go surfing in Santa Monica. T

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 3rd Floor:
Draw a map
Express
Elevator Talking about location
4. Match the phrases in the box with the places on
the map.
a. in central... b. in eastern... c. in western...
d. in northern... e. in southern... f. It's near the border.
g. It's not far from... h. It's on the coast.

1. D

2. F

3. a

4. C

5. B

6. G

7. H

8. E

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 3rd Floor:
Draw a map
5. Draw a map of a country or region of a country you know
well. Include the following information on the map:
major cities or towns
the most outstanding geographical features
approximate distances between places

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