English Language Exercises: Unit 1 Vocabulary and Grammar
Unit 1 Level 1
Ex 1 1. factual, opinion / 2. influential, changed / 3. acceptable, offend / 4. significance, understand / 5. harmless, bite / 6. improvement, better.
Ex 2 1. Ban / 2. Connection / 3. Owner / 4. Request / 5. Attempt / 6. path / 7. Necessity.
Upset / 2. Marry / 3. eat with your hands / 4. job interviews / 5. did it wrong / 6. eat together / 7. player football / 8. Awesome
Ex 4 1. Has been studying / 2. Had been using / 3. Haven’t been listening / 4. Has been raining / 5. Had … been
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A Nightmare
It was a beautiful Sunday morning. The sun was shining up in the sky, and although it was hot, it was a very nice day. I got into my car and drove towards the beach. When I got out of the car, I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the sea. It was so blue. I walked along the seaside for about an hour. Suddenly, I saw a strange creature coming from the sea. I looked around, but nobody else seemed to see it. I was the only one. As I was quite nervous, I decided to go back to the car. But when
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Nouns
A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea.
Examples of nouns: Daniel, London, table, dog, teacher, pen, city, happiness, hope
Example sentences: Steve lives in Sydney. Mary uses a pen and paper to write letters.
Area, book, business, case, child, company, country, day, eye, fact, family, government, group, hand, home, job, life, lot, man, money, month, mother, Mr, night, number, part, people, place.
Abstract Nouns
Abstract nouns are those referring to ideas, concepts, emotions, and other
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The Reality of Being a Celebrity
Nowadays, the great majority of people are not aware of what being famous entails. This essay will focus on analyzing the advantages and disadvantages that being a celebrity implies.
Advantages of Fame
With regard to the advantages of being famous, it is absolutely true that well-known people are wealthy people. If you have a great deal of money, you can have expensive properties and things, such as luxurious cars, huge mansions, or good private health insurance.
Disadvantages
Literary Characters in Everyday English Language
The Impact of Shakespeare and Cervantes
When we use the word Romeo to describe a romantic young man, we hardly think of the character from William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. A sure sign of an author having created a successful character is that the character’s name enters the language and becomes a word. Despite only writing in Spanish, Shakespeare’s contemporary Cervantes achieved the feat of creating a new word in a different language – English: the adjective quixotic. This word comes
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Stranger in the Mist
Giles Hampton was spending a short holiday in Wales. A friend of his had recently sold his business in Liverpool and had moved to Wales. This friend, whose name was Beverley, had built himself a house in Caernarvonshire, near the Snowdon mountains. There was an ancient church called Fablan Fawr a few hundred yards away from his house, so Beverley called his new house Fablan Fawr too.
Giles was very interested in geology. He loved studying rocks and stones. Since that part of Wales
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