Ex.

1 Old clothes
1. The late Princess Diana had good idea she would

2. sell a selection of her design gowns at an 3. auction in New York. She would able to clear her 4. wardrobe; it would be good publicity, and the proceed 5. could go to charities support by the princess. 6. The sell was a great success. Lots of people 7. were willing to pay lots of money to beautiful 8. dresses wearing by a beautiful celebrity at a 9. famous occasion. Over $ 3.2 million was risen in all. 10. And one customers saw an even better way to 11. make out money from the auction. The owner of 12. a jewellery shop bought out a dress with twenty 13. thousands beads on it. The plan was to take off 14. the beads and make 10,000 pair of earrings. 15. These would be sold for U.S. $1,000 each, bring in 16. considerably more money the auction itself. The 17. entrepreneur planned to sent the dress on a tour 18. round the States first, so people can see it and 19. order their earrings. People who could not afford to 20. a dress could afford some earrings and feel owned 21. something special connected for royalty. The 22. Princess was contacted with to ask her feelings 23. about plan. Her secretary reported that as 24. the jewellery company had bought the dress, it 25. was really to them what they did with it. 26. Perhaps some of Hong Kong s idol could follow 27. the Princess example and help rise money 28. for charity in a similar way.

Answers: 1. a good idea (singular countable noun) 2. designer (A designer gown is one designed by a well-known designer) 3. be able ( able is an adjective) 4. proceeds (always plural, the money gained) 5. supported (past participle with passive sense 6. sale (noun) sell = verb 7. to buy / own / purchase (verb needed to complete infinitive // or for (pay for something) 8. worn (past tense 9. raised (not risen) 10. customer (singular) 11. (out) make money / earn money 12. (out) buy something 13. thousand (only use the plural if the number is indefinite 14. pairs (plural) 15. bringing (present) / they will bring in 16. money than (comparison) 17. send (infinitive after to ) 18. could (planned past tense) thousands of dogs) passive) they were supported by the Princess)

19. (to) / to buy (a verb is not necessary but could be supplied) 20. feel they owned (subject for owned) 21. connected with (wrong preposition) 22. (with) infinitive to contact + object

23. the plan (one definite plan) 24. bought the dress (buy bought / bring brought) 25. up to them (for them to decide) 26. idols (some of + countable plural) 27. raise (raise money rise is intransitive) 28.

Ex. 2 We didn t mean it

1. Advertising logos and brand names can caused 2. trouble when one is saling goods all around the 3. world. Sweat may sound perfectly pleasant on 4. Japanese people, but it is a terrible name at a 5. drink for English-speakers. Red may be mean 6. happiness to the Chinese, but it might suggestion 7. danger to Europeans. Nike innocently put on a 8. design on the soul of some of its shoes 9. that was happened to look to some people 10. like the sacred name of Allah in Arab. No 11. Muslim wanted to walk the holy name, so 12. Nike to apologise quickly and withdraw the shoes. 13. In the United States, a group Christians decided 14. the logo of one major company like a symbol 15. for the devil. Many consumers started to boycott 16. the company s goods, and it had to spent a lot of 17. money on restoring its good publicity image. 18. In some cases, people simply have a different ideas 19. about what is appropriate. In Hong Kong, an advertising 20. used a large picture of Adolf Hitler. Some people 21. were amused, and other appalled. Airwalk shoes 22. showed Buddhist monks in sports shoes, and even 23. a monk removing a sheet of paper to used for 24. cheating from a student s shoe. People in 25. Thailand were upsetted by this and considered 26. it an insult their religion. Here s a final 27. example. A UK clothes company was showed 28. men staring models wearing the company s

29. garments. The men forget everything else because 30. of the beauty of the models. In one cases, 31. the man had his head of a train window, 32. and the train was about go into a tunnel. Do 33. you find that amusing or disgusted?

Answers
1. can cause (model verb + bare infinitive) 2. selling (sell=verb, sale=noun) 3. pleasant to (wrong proposition) 4. name for (wrong preposition) 5. (be) no sense 6. suggest (modal verb + bare infinitive) 7. (on) unnecessary put on often means dress

8. sole (lower part of foot, not spirit) 9. (was) happen is intransitive and cannot be passive 10. Arabic = the language, Arab = the people 11. walk on (walk + distance, walk on + surface) 12. decided / moved to (if apologise and withdraw are infinitives, we need a main verb) 13. group of (to relate the two nouns) 14. was like (not the verb like or looked 15. boycott (spelling) 16. spend (infinitive after to ) 17. public image (adj) 18. (a) plural 19. Advertising company / an advertisement ( advertising is the business in general and cannot be counted) 20. 21. others / other people (needs to have a plural sense) 22. 23. to be used (passive) 24. 25. upset (adj) 26. insult to (preposition necessary) 27. (was) active

28. staring at (preposition necessary) 29. forgot (past tense 30. case (singular) 31. head out of (phrasal verb) 32. to go (about + to infinitive) showed )

33. disgusting (present, parallel structure: amusing )