Farewell party

After the oral test, we were speaking with Maggie Garrido (our teacher) to see us the next Tuesday and take something.

It will be on Tuesday at 19:00 PM, in Raimundo Fernandez Villaverde CUID center.

If you can go, please post a comment in this Post.

TED: The key to success? Grit

Phrasal Verbs

1 I think I'll invite Mary out tonight. Things at work have been MAKING HER FEEL DEPRESSED lately. I wish she would think of something else.
getting her down putting her down	getting her off putting her off
2 You can't have a salad, I'm afraid. We've USED UP OUR SUPPLY OF vegetables.
gone off run off	gone out of run out of
3 When I opened the office door, I was hit on the head and FAINTED.
gave away passed away	gave out passed out
4 I can pick you up at your place and LEAVE YOU at the airport.
take you off drop you off	take you out drop you out
5 The witch cast a spell on the prince and he BECAME a frog.
caught on turned on	fell into turned into
6 We found a buyer for our house, but then the sale FAILED TO HAPPEN.
put through fell through	put out fell out
7 Many ideas have been SUGGESTED, but a decision is unlikely until after next year's general election.
put out looked out	put forward looked forward
8 When questioned on TV, the Mayor RETRACTED her allegations and admitted that she was wrong.
held back took back	held out took out
9 You'd better not give the dog that milk. It's TURNED SOUR.
gone off left off	gone out left out
10 What on earth's been HAPPENING here? This room looks like a bomb's hit it!
going up turning up	going on turning on
Answers 1 I think I'll invite Mary out tonight. Things at work have been GETTING HER DOWN  lately. I wish she would think of something else.
2 You can't have a salad, I'm afraid. We've RUN OUT OF vegetables.
3 When I opened the office door, I was hit on the head and PASSED OUT.
4 I can pick you up at your place and DROP YOU OFF at the airport.
5 The witch cast a spell on the prince and he TURNED INTO a frog.
6 We found a buyer for our house, but then the sale FELL THROUGH.
7 Many ideas have been PUT FORWARD, but a decision is unlikely until after next year's general election.
8 When questioned on TV, the Mayor TOOK BACK her allegations and admitted that she was wrong.
9 You'd better not give the dog that milk. It's GONE OFF.
10 What on earth's been GOING ON here? This room looks like a bomb's hit it!

Revision last class

1 I’m sorry, I meant ___________________ to you but I ______________ busy.

a. will write/was

b. to write/’ve been

c. writing/’ve been

d. to can write/’ll be

2 Pour me a __________ of water, ________ you?

a. bottle/must

b. cup/shall

c. glass/would

d. glass/do

3 I really ______________ my elder sister.

a. look up to

b. take in

c. put off

d. catch up with

4 I feel so tired this evening. I’ve been working hard ________.

a. all day

b. every day

c. each day

d. day by day

5 My friend Paul has a gold earring in ____________.

a. his two ears

b. each ear

c. every ear

d. the ears

6 I was _______________ that you had left.

a. under an impression

b. of impression

c. by impression

d. under the impression

7 We went by ______ train to _________ west of Italy.

a. a/--

b. --/the

c. the/the

d. --/--

8 You greet a friend you haven’t seen for a few weeks.

a. Hello Paula, how do you do?

b. Hello Paula, what’s going on?

c. Hello Paula, how are you?

d. Hello Paula, what are you like?

9 Do you mind ___________ after tea?

a. leaving

b. to leave

c. to clear the table

d. if I went

10 What do you think has happened to Tony?

a. He had to get lost.

b. Perhaps he’ll get lost.

c. He might have got lost.

c. He should have got lost.

11 Doing something ____ mistake is quite different ______ doing it ______ purpose.

a. by/than/to

b. for/that/on

c. as/to/at

d. by/from/on

12 My parents made me ___________ every night.

a. study

b. to study

c. studying

d. have studied

13 This is said to __________ the hottest summer ever.

a. been

b. being

c. have

d. have been

14 The policeman ___________ him if he had seen or heard anything.

a. reminded

b. asked

c. questioned

d. informed

15 After the guests had left, I _________ by a friend of mine.

a. called up

b. was phoned

c. had a phone call

d. heard some news

16 Actually, I’d rather you _____________ smoke here.

a. don’t

b. didn’t

c. could

d. shouldn’t

17 I wish you ___________ your dirty shoes in the living room.

a. won’t leave

b. wouldn’t leave

c. weren’t leave

d. hadn’t to leave

18 I asked Peter what time __________.

a. the film started

b. did the film start

c. had the film started

d. going to start the film

19 If you ___________ so much coffee, you ___________ sleep better.

a. drank/will be able to

b. don’t drink/would be able to

c. didn’t drink/would be able to

d. hadn’t drunk/would have be able

20 By the time we got there the rain __________.

a. had been stopped

b. was stopped

c. had stopped

d. could stop

21 I'm not keen on going out till late. _____

a. Neither am I

b. Neither do I

c. So am I

d. Neither I am

22 Choose the correct sentence:

a. Tom has phoned Joseph for months!

b. Tom has been phoning Joseph for months!

c. Tom is phoning Joseph during months!

d. Tom phones Joseph all the months!

23 The girl and her cat, _______ are playing outside, live next door.

a. which

b. whose

c. that

d. who

24 Andrew is the _____ in the class.

a. worse intelligent

b. more intelligent

c. most intelligent

d. worst intelligent

25 When he was a kid, James ______ watch TV after doing his homework.

a. usually

b. should

c. used to

d. were able to

26 I have no salt left. -Don't worry! I ____ buy some right now!

a. must

b. will

c. can

4. should

27 If I ______ too much chocolate, I get spots on my face.

a. eaten

b. will eat

c. eat

d. ate

28 We haven't sent the letter ______.

a. already

b. yet

c. still

d. too

29 The phrasal verb 'put up with' means '___________' something.

a. tolerate

b. grow

c. provide accommodation

d. annoy

30 I give up! I can't stand that book! It's really ______!

a. excited

b. exciting

c. boring

d. bored

31 You would like to see him, _____ you?

a. will

b. wouldn’t

c. could

d. do

32 I don't buy cigarettes any more because ______________.

a. I stopped smoking two years ago.

b. I stopped to smoke two years ago.

c. I have been giving up smoking for two years.

d. I have taken to smoking again.

33 I wish I _________ to bed early yesterday.

a. could to

b. go

c. went

d. had gone

34 They ______ heard us coming, we were making a lot of noise.

a. must have

b. must had

c. might be

d. could not

35 _________ than eat at the hotel, I'd prefer to go to Kentucky Fried Chicken.

a. Better

b. Instead

c. Rather

d. Despite

36 By this time next year, I _____________ the project.

a. am finishing

b. will finish

c. will have finished

d. will be finished

37 This brand of coffee is beginning to catch _________ . I know plenty of people who buy it.

a. up

b. in

c. on

d. off

38 The plane's departure was held _________ because of the storm.

a. over

b. out

c. back

d. up

39 If you can't afford __________ in expensive restaurants, Madrid has some cheap ones in the suburbs.

a. eating

b. to eat

c. eat

d. to eating

40 'feel under the weather' means:

a. be unfriendly

b. feel uncomfortable

c. feel ill

d. be upset

41 ________ that I am asked such a difficult question

a. Not is it often

b. It is not often

c. Often it is not

d. Not often it is

42 I'm going to buy a book entitled 'How to succeed ___________ business without really trying'.

a. on

b. in

c. within

d. from

43 I ________ stay at home _______ go to that overpriced party.

a. rather/than

b. would prefer/instead

c. 'd sooner/than

d. 'd better/without

44 Socializing with your colleagues in a bar is a perfect way to wind ______ after a hard day's work.

a. down

b. off

c. up

d. at

45 I don't know why he's so irritable today. He _________ be nervous about something.

a. can

b. might

c. will

d. likely

46 I don't know why she's late. She __________ got stuck in a traffic jam.

a. could

b. will have

c. could have

d. must

47 By June, I __________ here for two years.

a. will have been

b. am being

c. will be

d. will have to be

48 You should read the newspaper everyday if you want to keep _____ the latest news.

a. in with

b. up with

c. in track

d. on

49 If you go to London, I'd recommend ______ to Tate Modern.

a. knowing

b. to visit

c. go

d. to meeting

50 Don't worry if you haven't finished. I ______ on it later.

a. 'm working

b. work

c. 'm going to work

d. 'll have worked

1 b - 2 c - 3 a - 4 a - 5 b - 6 d - 7 b - 8 c - 9 a - 10 c - 11 d - 12 a - 13 d - 14 b - 15 b - 16 b - 17 b – 18 a - 19 c - 20 c – 21 a – 22 b – 23 d – 24 c – 25 c – 26 b – 27 c – 28 b – 29 a – 30 c – 31 b – 32 a – 33 d – 34 a – 35 c - 36 c - 37 c - 38 d - 39 b - 40 c - 41 b 42 b - 43 c - 44 a - 45 b - 46 c –

47 a - 48 b - 49 b - 50 c

Adriano’s story

Adriano was 0_______________ up in a small town in northern Italy. Although his family worked in the clothing industry, he had no 1_______________ in this, and even when very young, he 2_______________ cooking to be better than sewing. The aroma of freshly roasted garlic and homemade tomato sauce 3_______________ more to him than the finest fabrics. His passion for food 4_______________, so after leaving school, Adriano went 5_______________ to study cookery in a 6_______________ city. Later he became apprentice to a celebrated cook in Paris, staying there for two years before moving to London. There he got a good 7_______________ in a top hotel, cooking for such famous guests as the Queen of England and the President of Italy.

In 1991, he moved to San Francisco to take 8_______________ the kitchens of a famous restaurant, and two years later, fulfilled his life-long dream of opening his own restaurant. It 9_______________ very well, and when a small building next to his restaurant became 10______________, he also opened a lunch-time pasta bar.

	A	B	C	D
0	got	picked	came	brought
1	ambition	interest	desire	aim
2	considered	concluded	preferred	chose
3	meant	stated	expressed	indicated
4	raised	extended	enlarged	grew
5	in	through	on	by
6	nearby	next	close	nearest
7	work	position	employment	role
8	up	to	out	over
9	had	made	did	gave
10	achievable	spare	available	extra

0 D – 1 B – 2 A – 3 A – 4 D – 5 C – 6 A – 7 B – 8 D – 9 C – 10 C

Home and abroad

After a short time living in a foreign country, I noticed conversations with locals assumed a 0 …. pattern. There were standard answers to the usual questions. Most questions caused little 1 …. -it was rather like dancing, where both partners know how to avoid 2 …. on each other’s toes.

But, ‘When are you going home?’ was a question I 3 …. to answer, whenever I 4 …. my life and the direction it seemed to be 5 .… . In the last ten years, I had lived in a dozen countries. And I had travelled through dozens more; usually in 6 …. of a purpose or a person; occasionally to see the attractions.

This kind of travel is not 7 …. wandering, but is the extensive exploration of a wide 8 …. of cultures. However, it doesn’t allow you to put down roots. At the back of your mind, though, is the idea of home, the place you came from.

	A	B	C	D
0	predictable	steady	respectable	main
1	puzzle	trouble	obstacle	barrier
2	touching	moving	walking	stepping
3	worked	competed	stretched	struggled
4	considered	thought	reflected	believed
5	making	finding	seeking	taking
6	look	search	sight	inquiry
7	aimless	unreasonable	unreliable	indefinite
8	difference	arrangement	variety	order

0 A – 1 B – 2 D – 3 D – 4 A – 5 D – 6 B – 7 A – 8 C

Why we need to play

Human beings are not the only creatures that like to 0 …. fun. Many animals play, as do some birds. However, no other creatures spend so much time enjoying themselves as human beings do. Indeed, we 1 …. onto our sense of fun right into adulthood.

So why do human beings spend so much time playing? One reason is that we have time for leisure; animals have very little time to play as most of their life is spent sleeping and 2 …. food.

So, is play just an opportunity for us to 3 …. in enjoyable activities or does it have a more important 4 ….? According to scientists, 5 .…  from being fun, play has several very real 6 …. for us – it helps our physical, intellectual and social development. It also helps to 7 …. us for what we have not yet experienced. With very 8 ….  risk, we can act out what we would do in unexpected, or even dangerous, situations.

	A	B	C	D
0	have	do	get	take
1	hold	keep	save	stay
2	searching	looking	seeking	gaining
3	engage	combine	contribute	involve
4	motive	purpose	intention	cause
5	excluding	except	apart	away
6	assets	profits	services	benefits
7	plan	prepare	practise	provide
8	brief	short	narrow	little

0 A – 1 A – 2 C – 3 A - 4 B – 5 C – 6 D – 7 B – 8 D

Sugar sculpture

Most artists who 0_______________ three-dimensional objects, rather than paintings or drawings, 1_______________use of materials like stone or metal in their work. An exhibition has just opened at the Bowes Museum in England, however, where re-creations of sculptures carved from a very different material, sugar, are on 2_______________.

To understand the 3_______________ of this art form, you must go back 500 years, to a time when sugar was very rare and was 4_______________ only to the very wealthy. In those days, it became popular for rich Europeans to show 5_______________ their wealth by decorating their dining tables with elaborate sugar sculptures to impress their guests on special occasions. The finest artists were employed to 6_______________ on these sculptures, which reflected the host’s  7_______________ taste and position in society.

Although expensively decorated tables 8_______________ popular into the 19^th century, the idea then went out of 9_______________ and was largely forgotten. This was partly because sugar sculptures only 10______________ for a limited time – around 100 years at most – so eventually there were none in existence.

	A	B	C	D
0	create	compose	develop	invent
1	put	make	get	take
2	presentation	display	viewing	sight
3	development	outcome	arrangement	circumstance
4	reserved	kept	preferred	available
5	off	out	up	in
6	carry	try	build	work
7	happy	worthy	good	positive
8	rested	continued	remained	persisted
9	fashion	custom	habit	trend
10	maintain	live	stay	last

0 A – 1 B – 2 B – 3 A – 4 D – 5 A – 6 D – 7 C – 8 C – 9 A – 10 D

The changing landscape

The landscape of the world is never 0_______________ but changes from year to year. While some of these changes are caused by human 1_______________, most of them are natural. Snow and ice, for example, have a considerable 2_______________ on the environment in the northern hemisphere.

An ever-present problem in areas that 3_______________ harsh winters is the possibility of water pipes freezing. When they do, they crack and  4_______________ because of the expansion of the ice inside. Exactly the same thing happens in nature. On icy mountains, water 5_______________ into cracks in exposed rocks and when it freezes, the water turns into ice. The pressure of the ice  6_______________ the cracks, breaking the rocks apart. As a direct result of this 7_______________ action, broken blocks of stone can often be seen sloping downwards from high mountain 8_______________.

A similar process brings stones to the surface of the soil. Water beneath a buried stone freezes more easily than water in the 9_______________ soil because the stone 10______________ heat more quickly. Ice 11_______________ beneath the stone expands and brings the stone upwards. In permanently cold regions, the whole soil surface is raised and the stones that have been 12_______________ to the surface lie in lines on the soil, making a ridged pattern.

	A	B	C	D
0	fixed	solid	firm	steady
1	work	contribution	activity	practice
2	development	impact	consequence	power
3	experience	contain	receive	bear
4	rip	peel	tear	split
5	runs	slides	dashes	slips
6	prolongs	explodes	widens	swells
7	destructive	hurtful	disorderly	rebellious
8	heads	crowns	tips	peaks
9	bordering	enclosing	surrounding	circulating
10	absorbs	sucks	holds	occupies
11	creating	establishing	producing	forming
12	stirred	removed	squashed	pushed

0 A – 1 C – 2 B – 3 A – 4 D – 5 A – 6 C – 7 A – 8 D – 9 C – 10 A – 11 D – 12 D

The importance of drawing

In the nineteenth century, John Ruskin, an English writer and art critic, made great efforts to 0_______________ people to draw. He believed that drawing was a skill that was greatly neglected in schools and 1_______________ that it was more important to the human 2_______________ than writing.

In order to do something to improve the 3_______________, he published two books on drawing and gave a series of lectures at the Working Men’s College in London. His books were 4_______________ read, and his lectures 5_______________ large audiences. This further 6_______________ Ruskin’s belief that everybody should be given the opportunity to learn how to draw.

Ruskin’s efforts were not 7_______________ at turning people into good artists but at making them happier. For him, drawings were of value even when they were done by people with no talent, as drawing teaches people to 8_______________ things rather than just to see them. He felt that when we are involved in the process of drawing something, we have to look at it very 9_______________ and become aware of the different parts which 10______________ up the whole. It is in this way that we 11_______________ to a deeper appreciation and 12_______________ of the thing itself.

	A	B	C	D
0	have	encourage	request	bring
1	claimed	convinced	recommended	expressed
2	family	people	race	beings
3	state	condition	case	situation
4	vastly	broadly	immensely	widely
5	gained	collected	attracted	brought
6	strengthened	raised	ensured	grew
7	designed	aimed	pointed	intended
8	observe	regard	witness	look
9	closely	distinctly	definitely	exactly
10	work	set	make	take
11	arrive	come	reach	achieve
12	meaning	intelligence	understanding	significance

  

0 B – 1 A – 2 C – 3 D – 4 D – 5 C – 6 A – 7 B – 8 A – 9 A – 10 C – 11 B – 12 C