Unit 3: Grammar Vocabulary
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Unit 3
Grammar Vocabulary
1 Complete the sentences with the correct form of 3 Choose the correct answers.
the verbs in brackets.
1 Could you set a meeting, please?
1 I (meet) the new A up B off C for
employee at 4.30. Is there anything you’d like 2 Jill finally owned to eating the cake.
me to ask him?
A on B up C down
2 Don’t call me on my mobile between four and
3 We’ve put his mistakes to enthusiasm.
five this afternoon because I
A off B up C down
(drive).
4 They’re doing an old farmhouse.
3 (the judges
make) their decision by the end of today? A out B off C up
4 Don’t worry about phoning Martin with the 5 All this rain is really getting me .
news. I (tell him) at A on B down C up
school. Mark /5
5 Quick! Marian (faint)!
6 When (the
4 Choose the correct answers.
shop open)? I need to get some milk. 1 The accident was definitely harmful /
avoidable.
7 I’ve decided. I
2 Trying to answer this question is hopeless /
(study) Science at university.
mysterious.
8 Ben (probably win)
3 Our holiday was very reliable / eventful.
the student election. He’s very popular.
4 Artists need to be magical / creative.
9 The train (arrive) at
5 Don’t worry about breaking the glass. It’s
6.30 so we should be home by seven. avoidable / replaceable.
10 Don’t forget to give him the letter when he Mark /5
(get) home.
Mark /10 5 Complete the sentences with the correct form of
the words in the box.
2 Choose the correct answers. toddler elderly infancy OAP adolescent
1 Assuming / In case she gets good results,
where will she study? 1 can often be very moody.
2 I’ll stay as soon as / as long as you need me. 2 The technology is in its at the
3 Unless / Provided that you’re not too late, I’ll moment, but we’ll soon be able to use it to do
look after the baby. all manner of things.
4 Take your umbrella in case / if it rains later. 3 in our area get free bus travel.
5 I won’t go to bed assuming that / until you get 4 My brother’s only a and he’s
home. always knocking things over.
Mark /5
5 Young people sometimes don’t have respect
for the .
Mark /5
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Unit 3 Are you ‘Underage’?
Something interesting has been happening on the music
scene recently. Remember the time when you had to be
Listening a certain age to be able to get into concerts and clubs
and when it seemed you had to wait forever to be old
6 4.03 Listen to five people talking about the enough to experience the really exciting open-air gigs?
best age to be. Which speaker (A–E) talks about … Teenagers used to spend time and money trying to make
themselves look eighteen and many even invested in
1 focusing on his/her own needs? Speaker fake IDs to get past the security guards! Well, it appears
2 being independent? Speaker that the tables have turned and a new phenomenon has
arrived. This is keeping the older music fans out and
3 people reactions to him/her? Speaker
forcing them to try to appear younger or have fake IDs
4 pride in himself/herself? Speaker that prove they are under eighteen.
5 being content? Speaker What is it? It’s the brainchild of Sam Gascoyne, a fifteen-
year-old who got fed up with being turned away from
Mark /10
concerts and decided to do something about it. This will
be the second year of the extremely popular ‘Underage’
Reading festivals.
‘Underage’ started as a nightclub night for youngsters
7 Read the text. who wanted to listen to bands that are popular today.
According to Sam, teens today are getting involved in
8 Are the sentences true or false? music and the music industry at younger and younger
1 In the past only teenagers were allowed ages and their needs are not being catered for. They
into some live concerts. T/F are no longer content to listen to the type of music
2 Sam Gascoyne turns teenagers away nightclubs usually provide for under-eighteen nights.
from concerts. T/F They want more cutting edge music.
The London Underage club nights developed into
3 ‘Underage’ has brought new music to a
Underage clubs and the idea spread like wildfire and
younger audience. T/F
was copied in towns and cities all over the UK. Last year
4 The underage festivals only allow one saw the first Underage Music Festival on 10th August in
adult with each teenager. T/F London’s Victoria park. It was an amazing event. Open
5 Some older people attempt to enter only to 14–18 year olds the morning started with a
these festivals. T/F queue of over 2,000 teenagers without a parent in sight!
Mark /10
The only adults were the security people and twenty-
somethings trying to look younger!
The festival was well organised and offered the best in
Writing indie music. It was well equipped to deal with the needs
of the adolescent fans: food bars, cash points and lots of
9 Write a description of one of your neighbours. security to reassure absent parents that the kids would
Use the writing guide to help you. be safe. The whole day was a great success, the teenagers
Paragraph 1: Say who the person is and how you thoroughly enjoying the fact that they had a festival of
know him/her. their very own.
Paragraph 2: Write about the person’s physical The ‘Underage’ phenomenon has proved so successful
appearance. that Sam is now considered by many to be a teen role
model. He remains unfazed by it all. He admits to
Paragraph 3: Write about this person’s personality.
being annoyed by the increased attention of the music
Paragraph 4: Write about any special abilities industry. He feels very strongly that teenagers are being
this person may have and say why he/she is an let down by an industry run by people who are more
interesting person to know. interested in money than music and who are too old
to understand teenage needs. He insists that in this
Mark /10 technological age young people are more aware of new
Total /60 trends in music than ever before and ingrained attitudes
in the industry need to change.