UNIT 1 Vocabulary practice
Language communication
1Correct the underlined mistakes in the sentences.
Janis speaks Polish fluent. fluently
1Leah and Kim had an arguing yesterday. …………………
2What’s your parent tongue, Mario? …………………
3Let’s make sure that we keeper in touch next year. …………………
4I can’t comment in that website because I don't use it. …………………
5I don’t think you should spray a rumour about your friend. …………………
6Can you tell me what the mean of this word is, please? …………………
2Translate the sentences into your language.
1The word ‘once’ is a false friend in Spanish and English because it looks the same but has a different meaning.
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2The word ‘accent’ is a cognate in Spanish and English because it looks similar and has the same meaning.
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3The word ‘angry’ is a synonym of the word ‘cross’.
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4Idioms and slang words vary from language to language.
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The internet social networks
3Complete the text with the correct forms of the nouns in the box.
account cyberbully internet addiction online screen time social network status update
Do you suffer from internet addiction? If you answer ‘yes’ to three or more questions, then you may have a problem …
•Do you go (1) ………………………… to ‘surf the internet’ more often than you'd like?
•Do you waste hours a day looking at
(2) …………………………such as Facebook or Twitter?
•Are you constantly checking these sites for
(3) …………………………from your friends?
•Do you have more hours of
(4) ………………………… aday than time spent with your family?
•Have your parents ever asked you to delete an (5)…………………………because you spent too much time using it?
4Correct the mistakes in the nouns and verbs in the sentences. One sentence is correct.
My sister is getting help for internet addict. addiction
1I try not to pass online more than three times a day. ……………………
2I deleted my accounter so that nobody would be able to read my personal information. ……………………
3Jack has more than 500 followers on Twitter. ……………………
4Facebook has more than one billion uses. ……………………
5Have you seen Kim’s profile updata? ……………………
On the phone
5Complete the sentences with the correct form of a verb from A and a preposition from B.
Acall get listen run switch top turn
Bback down in off out of through up
Could you switch off your phone, please? The film is about to start.
1I’m having trouble ……………………………to my sister. I think her phone must be broken.
2I must …………………………… the volume of my text alert – it’s too loud!
3I’m sorry, Mr Smith is not here. Could you ……………………………later, please?
4I’m going into my bedroom so Mum can’t ……………………………on our conversation.
5I’ve ……………………………credit, so I can’t make any more calls until I ……………… it ……………… .
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