Set 5 Review

More Than Words

Note
Although view can be found within interview, it has not been part of the target vocabulary (Textbook pp. 90–91) and, thus, does not count here.
  • chief
  • report
  • page
  • station
  • domestic
  • letters
  1. weather 
  2.  news
  3.  editor
  1. front 
  2. radio 
  3.  to the editor

1.

  • headline
  • caption
  • show
  • cartoon

2.

  • reporter
  • cameraman
  • blogger
  • wiki

3.

  • playlist
  • embed
  • publish
  • subscribe

4.

  • laptop
  • tablet
  • username
  • smartphone

5.

  • truthful
  • misleading
  • convincing
  • effective

Exercise 4

Match the words.
  • social
  • news
  • instant
  • media
  • feed
  • message
  • commer­cial
  • gossip
  • classified
  • break
  • column
  • ad

Exercise 5

1.
  • t
  • e
  • e
  • w
  • t
  • a
  • b
  • t
  • e
  • t
  • l
  • o
  • p
  • l
  • a
  • p
  • t
  • e
  • i
  • f
  • s
  • e
  • l
  • e
  • g
  • r
  • o
  • l
  • g
  • b
2.
  • t
  • v
  • a
  • a
  • a
  • r
  • o
  • e
  • w
  • t
  • n
  • k
  • r
  • t
  • u
  • n
  • o
  • c
  • c
  • a
  • p
  • f
  • l
  • m
  • t
  • a
  • o
  • r
  • r
  • w
  • o
  • e
  • l
  • f
  • l
  • o
  1. devie
  2. sttus
  3. emoi
  4. reuest
  5. widet
  6. pdast
  1. clikbat
  2. hahtg
  3. paswrd
  4. ntifiaion
  5. apliaion
  6. crwdfndig

Pairwork 1

Discuss with your partner.
  1. Where do you usually get your news from?
  2. Have you ever listened to a podcast? If so, what was it about?
  3. What are the pros and cons of using social media?
  4. How to create a cool avatar for your online profile?
  5. What would you do if you met an Internet troll?
  1. Florrie has picked its name itself. 
  2. Debbie feels ashamed of talking to a computer. 
  3. Florrie doesn’t know about Siri. 
  4. Florrie’s newest function isn’t rated highly. 
  5. Florrie’s newest function includes hiding ads. 
  6. Debbie doesn’t immediately agree to activate the new function. 
  7. Florrie says the new function is very user-friendly. 

Pairwork 2

A. Listen again and then discuss how the following words are connected with Debbie and Florrie’s conversation.

embarra­ssing    rating     setting   
flooded     ​consent     enabled

B. Do you use a virtual assistant? If so, for what? Discuss it in pairs.

Get This!

  • The baseball game will be cancelled if it rains tomorrow.
  • I wouldn’t watch that TV show if I were you.
  • If you mix red and yellow, you get orange.
  • If we had a car, we’d go on a long road trip.
  • I’ll join you for dinner if you pick a vegetarian restaurant.
  • If she’d been more careful, she wouldn’t have got hurt.
  • If they could live anywhere in the world, they would live in Los Angeles.

 

Think!

Which conditionals are used in the other sentences?

Exercise 8

Use the verbs from the box to complete the sentences in the Second Conditional.

know    star    not/be    play    compete 

  1. If I  in a hurry, I’d enjoy a relaxing cup of tea.
  2. If James  how to code, he’d develop his own video game.
  3. If we were world-class athletes, we  in the Olympics.
  1. If you wanted to be a musician, what instrument  you ?
  2. If Charlotte were an actress, she  in action films.

Example: I / win / lottery / I / buy / house / beach →
                  If I won the lottery, I’d buy a house on the beach.

  1. Jonathan / exercise / regularly / he / better shape
  2. Stella / vlogger / she / film / favourite / dinner recipes
  3. I / create / podcast / it / about / pop music
  4. I / happier / TV channels / not / show / so many / commercials
  1. If I were a photographer, .
  2. If , I would travel to exotic places.
  3. If I had more time for my friends, .
  4. If , I would post it online.

Africa

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Vitoia
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Ngronoro

Quiz

Choose the correct answer. Use the Internet to help you.

English is not an official language in ...

  • Nigeria.
  • Kenya.
  • Ethiopia.

The largest desert in Africa is ...

  • the Namib Desert.
  • the Sahara Desert.
  • the Kalahari Desert.

One of the island countries in Africa is ...

  • Mauritius.
  • Malawi.
  • Mali.