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1 Errors to avoid. Tick the correct sentences. Correct the wrong ones. Listen and check.
1. I no really have much time to relax.
2. I like going to cinema.
3. I sit always and have a coffee.
4. They influence the manner we speak.
5. Are they like that always?
6. You made them to speak to each other.
7. I'm going to teaching them after lunch.
8. I could to talk to them.
9. As a model for them to same thing.
One mark for each: Your score __/9
2 Pronunciation. The worlds in italics from Unit 16 are similar in Portuguese. Can you pronounce them? Mark the stress on them. Listen and check.
1. I really relax at weekends.
2. I go to the cinema two or three times a month.
3. I often watch films on TV.
4. I don't really like comedies.
5. Do you usually finish work late?
6. I phone my mother every night.
7. Advertising really influences us to buy things.
8. I'm really excited at the moment.
9. Portuguese is more difficult than English.
10. I rarely get the opportunity to go to the beach.
11. I had a great conversation with my students last week.
12. We have looked at loads of topics this semester.
One mark for each: Your score ___/12
3 Test your prepositions. Complete the sentences using a preposition (or - nothing). Listen and check.
1. The best restaurants ______ me are the ones that serve good cheap food.
2. It was a waste _______ time.
3. Last weekend I just wandered _______ my local park for hours.
4. I've lost the top _____ my pen.
5. I've got to ring ____ his parents.
6. What are you doing ______ lunch?
7. Could you talk _____ my students about your job?
8. We're trying to learn to play tennis, but I have a problem ______ my wrist.
9. We're shopping ________ the moment.
10. How _____ going for dinner one night next week?
11. I often use a model _____ my students to follow.
One mark for each: Your score ___/11
4 Build-your-own Phrasebook. Translate the phrases.
1. I don't really have much time to relax.
2. I try to make the most of it.
3. I suppose my least favorite films are.
4. It's embarrassing sometimes.
5. Everyone starts looking at us.
6. He doesn't care what people think.
7. He just wants to have a good time when we're out.
8. I enjoy wandering round shopping malls.
9. The most expensive thing I've bought is...
10. That's my little treat.
11. The stories are often unbelievable.
12. What lovely students!
13. Well done!
14. I'm teaching them after lunch.
15. I'd love you to help me.
16. What do you want to do?
17. Make the most of the opportunity.
18. They could listen to us.
19. A live listening - a great idea.
20. How about you and me acting out a role play?
21. As a model for them to do the same thing.
22. What's the topic?
23. They'll love it.
One mark for each. Your score __/23
5 Race the tape. Listen and translate the phrase that you hear before the next one starts.
One mark for each. Your score __/15
6 Question formation. Write the questions for the statements in exercise 4 above. Listen and check.
1. _________________________________
8. _________________________________
9. _________________________________
14. ________________________________
23. ________________________________
Three marks for each: Your score ___/15
7 Now record them on you Portfolio cassette.
Calculate your score: Total: __/85
If your score is over 60, do Unit 17.
If your score is under 60, revise the exercises in Unit 16 which you had problems with.
Well done, you've finished Unit 16!
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