Unit 12 Review
Activity 1 Children’s jokes
1.He said,”That wasn’t an accident. The bull did it on purpose.” 2.Both the horse and the man went off the edge.
3.It means sarcastically that the London Bridge was built within a very short period of time,less than one day. 4.(Open ended)
Activity 2 Do you believe it?
A 1.UFO sends TV sports show to earth. 2.Giant kangaroos attack school.
3.2000-year-old Greek statue has face of rock star.
4.Man loses one hundred pounds. 5.Elephant joins soccer team. B. 1.b 2.b 3.a 4.b 5.a
Activity 3 Hope you don’t mind my asking First speaker: A nice meal
To go to Indonesia Getting to Oxford Winston Churchill His wife
Daughter said,”Daddy,you’re the most wonderful person in the world.”
Second speaker: Sitting in front of a fire and reading To have as much money as possible Having her daughter Mahatma Gandhi Her daughter
Went for a nice walk Third speaker: His work
To go on a safari in East Africa Raising three daughters His wife His wife
Went for a drive in the country Activity 4 Market survey
Stan: 1. think of a list of Christmas presents I’m going to buy and a list
of people I have to send cards to
2. add up the prices of what I buy,what I spend every week on food and
drink
3. compare prices now with what I used to pay 10 years ago
Judy: 1. try to remember the most romantic evening I ever spent with
my husband,and try to remember every detail: place,clothing,etc
2. day-dream what I would do with the money if my husband won a million
on the football pools
3. wonder what a famous film star in the queue would be buying
Alice: 1. try to remember the people I went to school with,classmates,
teachers,and what we all did at school
2. try to remember a particular group and try to see how much I know about their lives afterwards: marriage,children, occupation,living places,etc.
3. reconstruct the family tree with the names and dates and all the
different relationships back to the great-grandparents
4. text my memory,see if I can remember what I was doing a week/month
ago or relive a moment in my summer holiday
Activity 5 You and your community
1.c 2.a 3.a 4.d
Activity 6 Help your doctor to help you
1.heart disease,stoke,flu,bronchitis,birth injuries,congenital malformations,cancer,
accidents,pneumonia,diabetes,cirrhosis of the liver,suicide 2.cigarettes,alcohol,physical inactivity,over-eating
3.The over-weight eat less,Drinkers drink less,Smokers stop smoking , Everyone takes a little more exercise Activity 7 Men and women
A.Things Women Do Better: doing more than one thing at a time developing relationships
Things Men Do Better: reading maps geography
B.Women: 1.can talk to someone or probably cook something at the same
time
2.loath to look at the world and think”we can write it down on a piece of
paper”
3.taught to please other people
4.can have fairly personal and truthful conversations even after a
relatively short time of knowing each other
Men: 1.find difficult to conduct a conversation at the same time 2.want to reduce things,for example,the universe to something easily
understandable
3.taught to please themselves
4.have conversations not about real things,for example,talk about their work
or their interests in a superficial way