She’s been seeing a doctor at Newtown Hospital, but she’s having the operation in the Queen Mary Hospital.. It’s not that I don’t want to have dinner with you tonight; I can’t come becau
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Unit 13: HOBBIES
Ex1: Complete the sentence with the correct form of the word in the box
Accomplish succeed admire accompany collect discard indulge occupy classify profit
1 She needed only one more stamp to complete her …………
2 You could spend your time more …………with a good book
3 The girl sang to the …………of a piano
4 Drawing and singing were among her many …………
5 He never lost the …………of his students
6 My doctor advised me to avoid excessive …………in sweets and canned drinks
7 We need something to keep the children …………in their summer holiday
8 The books are …………into different categories according to subject
9 Confidence is the key to …………
10 The room was littered with …………newspapers
Ex2: Rewrite the sentences to focus attention on the underlined information Start with it+be and an appropriate wh-word or that
1 She bought the car from Tom
2 M y secretary sent the bill to Mr Harding yesterday
3 He already plays for national side; he only turned professional last year
4 The film was made in Bristol
5 We are coming to stay with Jane this weekend
6 Columbus sailed to America in 1492
7 The president makes the important decisions
8 I’m not looking forward to physics, but I’m most worried about the statistics exam
9 She’s been seeing a doctor at Newtown Hospital, but she’s having the operation in the Queen Mary Hospital
10 Caroline has been feeling a bit depressed for sometime, so I booked a holiday in Amsterdam to cheer her up
11 It’s not that I don’t want to have dinner with you tonight; I can’t come because I’ve got so much work to do
12 I had my wallet when I went into the sports hall, so I lost it somewhere in there
13 She doesn’t find learning language very easy, and she improved her Spanish only by studying very hard
14 I have had great help from my best friend Dave in doing my research, and I delicate this thesis to him
15 I don’t mind her criticising me, but I object to how she does it
Ex3: Fill in each blank with an appropriate preposition
1 My uncle is very good…………accompanying people singing …………his guitar
2 My brother is fond …………tennis
3 I have not been very successful…………playing the guitar
4 He’s keen…………collecting coins
5 I usually give…………the common stamps to my friends
6 She was free to indulge…………leisure activity like reading
7 I don’t need these papers-you can throw it…………
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1 I don’t like keeping fish My sister doesn’t like keeping fish either
Neither
2 We need to make people realize that drug-taking is self-destructive
What
3 I suppose the hope of easy money tempts them
I suppose it
4 I have not experienced such a storm since I was a child
Not
5 Those children were not very well educated
Those children’s
6 We expected that the report will be published shortly
The report
7 It’s all his talk of poverty that really annoys me
What
8 We only learnt the truth yesterday
It
9 People sometimes suggest that we are not all equal This makes some people very angry
Any
10 If it hadn’t been for your help he would be in a worse mess
If you
Ex5: Fill in each blank with one appropriate word from the box
Spectator interests decorated range satisfied discarded bored educational collector engaging positive classified
The word hobby is a shortened form of hobbyhorse, which had a ……1… wooden framework with an imitation horse’s head attached to it Hobbies today include a vast ……2… of activities In this sense, hobbies include games and sports, but they leave out purely ……3… activities like watching television They also exclude schooling and work done to make a living
Hobbies are important for many reasons First, a hobby can be ……4…… For example, if the hobby is stamp collecting the ……5… can learn about the countries of the world and even some of their history Second, …6…… in the hobby can lead to meeting people with the same ……7…… Third, a person’s free time is being used in ……8… way the person has no time to be …9…… Finally, some hobbies can lead to a future job is more ……10… with life
Ex6: Complete the passage with the correct tense of the verbs in brackets
Agatha Miller (bear) on 15th September 1890 in Torquay in south-west England Better known as Mrs Agatha Christie, she (write) altogether 78 mystery novels and 19 plays Very few other crime writers (write) more books than this, and few (become) so immensely popular
Ever since she (publish) her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920, her books (never be) out of print They (translate) all over the world, and, perhaps surprisingly, her sales (actually increase) since she (die) in 1976 for a short time after her death they (fall), so it was perhaps the screen that (revive) her popularity
People (enjoy) Agatha Christie’s stories for years, and her popularity currently (seem) higher than it (ever be) It is not of course the first time that an author (become) more popular in death than in life
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Keys:
Ex1:
Ex2:
1 It was Tom who/that she bought the car from
2 It was my secretary who/that sent the bill to Mr Harding yesterday
3 He already plays for the national side, it was only last year when/that the turned professional
4 It was in Bristol where/that the film was made
5 It’s Jane who/that we are coming to stay with this weekend
6 It was in 1492 when/that Columbus sailed to America
7 It is the president who/that make the important decisions
8 I’m not looking forward to physics, but it is the statistics exam which/that I’m most worried about
9 she’s been seeing a doctor at Newtown Hospital, but it’s the Queen Mary Hospital where/that she’s having the operation
10 Caroline has been feeling a bit depressed for sometime, so it was to cheer her up that I booked a holiday in Amsterdam
11 It’s not that I don’t want to have dinner with you tonight; it’s because I’ve got so much work to
do that I can’t come
12 I had my wallet when I went into the sports hall, so it was somewhere in there which/that I lost it
13 She doesn’t find learning language very easy, and it’s only by studying very hard that she
improved her Spanish
14 I have had great help from my best friend Dave in doing my research, and it’s to him that I delicate this thesis
15 I don’t my her criticising me, but it’s how she does it that I object to
Ex3:
Ex4:
1 Neither my sister nor I like keeping fish
2 What we need to make people realize is that drug taking is self-destructive
3 I suppose it’s the hope of easy money that tempts them
4 Not since I was a child have I experienced such a storm
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10 If you hadn’t helped him, he would be in a worse mess
Ex5:
1 decorated 2 range 3 spectator 4 educational 5 collector
Ex6:
5 published 6 have never been 7 have been translated 8 have actually
increased