Language Focus

1. In each sentence, replace the incorrect word with 3. Rewrite the sentences correctly.
another word. 1 My friend and I were chatting when Tom was arriving.
1 It’s cold and rainy! You should wear your warm boots _________________________________________
over your shirt. ____________
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2 His clothes are quite tight now he’s lost weight. He
2 I wasn’t hearing the phone because I listened to music.
needs a smaller size. ____________
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3 Linda wore a white, short-sleeved skirt to her job
interview. ____________ _________________________________________

4 We didn’t use to wear skinny trainers when I was a 3 She didn’t buy anything yesterday because she wasn't
teenager. ____________ having any money.

5 You need new jeans. I can see your toes through the _________________________________________
holes! ____________
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6 This top is too baggy on me. I need a bigger size. 4 While I walked home from school, I was seeing my uncle.
____________
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7 I forgot my blouse, so I had to do my PE class with
nothing on my feet. ____________ _________________________________________

5 What were you thinking when you were buying that

8 I had to wear hats to keep my feet dry in the snow.
____________ jacket? It looks terrible!

_________________________________________

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6 I took the bus home this morning because I carried too

2. Translate into English.
many bags.
María llevaba un vestido estampado muy colorido
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cuando quedamos para ir al cine hace dos semanas.
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7 Did he used to glasses when he was younger?

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Todo el mundo la miraba cuando entramos al
restaurante. _________________________________________

8 I use to do a lot of exercise because I like it.

_________________________________________

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9 I was seeing a dog when I opened the window.

Con qué juguetes solías jugar cuando eras pequeño? A
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mi me encantaban las Barbies pero nunca tuve Nenucos.
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10 I didn't use to liked chocolate but now I do.

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Estábamos acabando de cenar cuando oímos las
noticias.
Reading We met thanks to sport
Read the article & write True, False or Doesn't say. Marjorie
Marjorie stayed in touch with Roger after she got married. Many years ago I used to play tennis with a man called
_______________ Roger. He usually beat me but I remember how kind he was.
Marjorie was playing golf when she met Roger again. We lost touch when I got married and I thought I’d never
_______________ see him again. That was 30 years ago. When I retired last
year, I needed a new activity, especially as I had also
Marjorie & Roger have got engaged. _______________ recently got divorced, so I took up golf. One day I was going

Steve needed somewhere to live after his girlfriend broke around the course alone, when I saw a man, also playing on
up with him. _______________ his own. When he turned round, I realized it was my old
friend! We couldn’t believe it! After that we started playing
Paul doesn’t really get on with Steve. _______________
regularly. Yesterday, Roger proposed in the middle of the
Liz decided to run the London Marathon after she’d golf course – he’d put a ring inside a golf ball! I couldn’t
moved from Bristol. _______________ believe it when I saw the ring, but I said ‘yes’!

Liz wanted someone to train with. _______________ Paul

Harriet wasn’t the first person who made contact with Liz. I was looking for a fatmate a few months ago because I had
_______________ just split up with my partner and she had moved out. To
forget her, I started working out at the gym after work. I
Harriet and Liz didn’t like each other when they first met. slowly got to know Steve who was often there at the same
_______________
time, although we didn’t become friends until we were both
Harriet ran the race without Liz _______________ warming up one day, and he said he was looking for
somewhere to live as his girlfriend had just dumped him. I
2. Find words in the text with the following
told him that I had a room in my fat and that I was looking
meanings:
for a fatmate. He moved in two days later. We’ve become
Amable Darse cuenta Entrenar good mates and we both agree that we’re much easier to
live with than our ex-girlfriends!
Mudarse Compañero de piso
Liz
I had recently moved to Oxford from Bristol when I decided
Listening to run the London Marathon. I didn’t want to train alone so I
Listen to an interview with an Ex-Champions League advertised for a running partner at my local gym, and
referee from Spain and choose A, B or C. Harriet got in touch. We met for coffee and got on really
well. It was amazing how many things we had in common, for
example she had recently moved to Oxford, too. While we
were getting ft we also became close friends.

Unfortunately I got injured three weeks before the race and

couldn’t take part. I was sad about the race, but am
delighted about my new friendship. And we’re already
thinking about next year…

Writing
Write 3 sentences about people's life 200 years ago.
Reading
Fads and crazes of the sixties
1 Read the interview. Choose the best title for each (___) ____________
paragraph from the box. Then, number
paragraphs A–E in the correct order (1–5). A This era also saw a change in what people chose to wear.
This was the beginning of the hippie era. People wore
1960s Crazes Fashion Music Technology
flowers in their hair and floral prints on their tops. Men used
2 Read the interview again. Answer the questions. to wear tie-dye T-shirts and women wore miniskirts. Around
Write complete sentences. this time, both men and women started wearing jeans.
1 What was the 1960s era defined as? Large, oversized sunglasses were also very popular.

_________________________________________ (___) ____________

B One such change was the arrival of different crazes. Ant
2 What did men and women use to wear in the
farms were probably one of the strangest. These started
1960s? when ‘Uncle Milton’ Levine took a clear plastic box and
_________________________________________ made it into a prototype for the ant farm. And what a
prototype it was! In ten years he sold over twelve million of
3 What bands and musicians became popular in the them. People used to buy the farm, and the ants were
60s? posted separately.

_________________________________________ (___) ____________

4 Where did young music fans use to go to enjoy

C The 1960s was the decade of self-expression. People were
breaking away from the more conservative ways of the
themselves? 1950s. Bright and colourful fashion, pop music and new
_________________________________________ technology defined the era as a time of revolution. The
1960s saw a huge change in social and cultural behaviour.
(___) ____________
LISTENING D Many of the gadgets and electronics that we know well
today also evolved from this period. One of the first digital
1 Listen to a radio show about fashion in the last computer games, Spacewar!, was created in 1961, and the
hundred years. Cross out any incorrect first games console was designed by Ralph Baer in 1966.
information and write the correct words or However, some technology from the 1960s has now
numbers. disappeared. I mean, who remembers listening to audio
cassettes?
1 Women wore long dresses, wide hats and long-
sleeved blouses in the 1920s. (___) ____________
E Like fashion, music in the 1960s was varied and evolving.
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The era is famous as the decade when The Beatles became
2 People didn’t wear separate pieces of clothing in the popular. Surf and Motown music reflected the changes in
1940s. culture. Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys
were new and exciting. While their parents were at home,
_________________________________________ many teenagers were out dancing at music festivals.

3 Teenagers weren’t dressing like their parents any

more by the 1950s.

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Writing
4 Jackie Kennedy’s smart blouses were popular in the
1960s. 1 Write 3 sentences about people's life 200 years ago.

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5 People wore big trousers in the 1980s.

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