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Grammar 1
Unit 1 The spirit of
invention Post simple, present perfect simple
ond present perfect continuous
Vocabulary 1
1 1 have developed
1 1 simple 2 tested
2 complex 3 have also tested
3 non-essential 4 have shown
4 essential 5 became
5 old-fashioned 6 has taken
6 modern
7 low-cost 2 1 Who developed a new way to
purify water?
8 expensive Scientists in California.
9 practical
2 Where did they test the device last
1O handy year?
2 1 cheap 5 out-of-date On the Virgin Islands.
2 complex 6 essential 3 Where else did they test the device?
3 modern 7 expensive In India.
4 superfluous 4 What did the results show?
3 1 old- 2 Hi- 3 Low- 4 im They showed that this system
5 in 6 non- can eliminate the risk of cholera,
4 Down typhoid and dysentery.
5 When did scientists first discover
1 low-tech
the purifying quality of light?
2 superfluous In the 1990s.
3 cheap
4 out-of-date 6 How long did it take to develop a
low-cost UV light device?
6 wind-up More than 15 years.
Across
3 1 already 5 for
1 low-cost
2 just 6 ever
3 complex 3 yet 7 never
5 energy 4 since
7 fashioned
8 simple 4 1 have been asking
2 have made
Reading 3 has recently launched
1 b 4 have been offering
21b 2c 3d 4a 5 have been using
6 have not been using
3 1 False:'you needn't spend years on 7 has promised
development and research or doing 8 have already introduced
expensive tests'.
2 False:'it was difficultto believethat Post simple, post perfect simple ond
no-one had thought of it before'. postperfectconUnuous
3 False:'once you've got your idea, 5 1 was, thought
you need to patent it/. 2 had been snowing, had to
4 False:'do we reallyneed automatic 3 had been watching, came
egg-warmers, or electricalcan- 4 had been working, gave
openers?' 5 saw
5 True:'people liketo be a little 6 pulled, discovered, had been
frivolouswith their Christmas
driving
presents'.
6 1 had been travelling
6 True:'you may not become rich 2 came
overnight'.
3 had been trying
4 1 Becauseit improved the driver's 4 was considering
visionduring bad weather. 5 went
2 To make sure that no-one steals it
6 had been using
from you. 7 decided
3 No. Some of them are frivolousand
8 went
don't solveany problems.
4 Student/s own answer 7 Where had TomAdams been
travelling?
5 1 ingenious 4 prototype
2 housewife 5 sit back He had been travelling in Mexico.
2 What had Adams been trying to
3 patent 6 wacky become?
He had been trying to become an
inventor.

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3 What did he hear in a shop? He Vocabulary 2 Writing a description of an
heard a girl ask for chicle. Gerunds and intinitives object
4 What had the natives of Mexico
1 1 to find 6 to cultivate 1 The bicyclecan help us combat
been using as a chewing gum?
2 to create 7 to grow problems such as trafficcongestion
They had been using chicle.
3 providing 8 wasting and obesity. It can also help us fight
5 What had Adams been thinking of climate change.
doing? 4 Using 9 burning
5 to obtain 2 Cars have become an essential part
He had been thinking of giving it all
up. 2 1 Growingfood crops with the of everydaylifein our modernsociety.
seawater greenhouse is a lot They are certainly useful,but they are
Error correction also a seriousproblem. They crowd
cheaper.
1 Humans have been coming up with 2 The developers hope to installthe the congestedstreets of our city
great ideas for thousands of years. greenhouses in areas near the sea. centres. They pollute the air in our
2 Our history has been full of discoveries 3 The greenhouse uses electrical countryside and they produce huge
since we first learned how to make fire. quantities of harmfulgreenhouse
light to transform fresh water into
3 The discovery of the American seawater. gases.
continent was an important moment in 4 The Seawater Greenhouse is a 3
European history. concept that combines natural Cause Effect
4 A retired naval officer has recently processes of obtaining fresh water.
claimed that the Chinese were the first because consequently
to cross the Atlantic Ocean. 3 1 True:'a source of low-cost,fresh sinceas so

5 Columbus never landed on Antigua. water supply for agricultural

purposes' . 4 1 Eventhough
6 In the last 50 years we have made a 2 True:'sustainable solution in coastal 2 like
large number of important discoveries. areas'. 3 In my opinion
7 For example, scientists discovered 4 In addition to
3 False:'using...sunlight to obtain
penicillin and more recently they have fresh water from seawater'. 5 What's more
identified the genes in human DNA.
4 True:'without burning fossilfuels'. 6 Consequently
Grammar 2 7 Personally,Ithink
4 1 to bring
1 Ac Ba Cb 2 leaving S Student's own answers
2a a B (the theory of gravity) 3 riding,to look Word order corner
b C (the post-it@ note) 4 looking
1 Last night we watched a funny British
c A (the principie of buoyancy) Sld 2a 3c 4b comedy on television.
b 61d 2b 3a 4c 2 Chris has a cool, new, silver mobile
Past perfect Past perfect
simple contlnuous 7 Student's own answers phone.
3 Some people think that Chindogu
had been sitting Listening are useless, impractical, japanese
had been using 1 Student's own answer inventions.
had been having 4 My colleague has bought a hi-tech,
21c 2d 3b 4b 5c
compact, digital camera.
6 d
3 1 wasn't trying to make a gold 5 Karen owns a lovely little wooden
crown, he was trying to find out if 3 1 They were asked to vote for the cottaqe ue. in the mountains.
the crown was made of gold. most important invention of the
last 200 years.
2 didn't notice that heavier objects
2 Ves,it was
displaced lesswater, he noticed
that heavierobjects displace more 3 There are twice as many bikesas
water. cars.
3 hadn't been sitting under a lemon 4 Trafficcongestion is a big problem
in central London.
tree, he had been sitting under an
apple tree. 5 They can get trough the
4 didn't discoverthat gravitation trafficeasier and quicker than
is a force that pullsthings away ambulances, reaching the injured a
from the Earth, he discovered that lot quicker.
gravitation is a force that pulls 6 It gave them independence to
things towards the Earth. travel and allowedthem to wear
5 wasn't an engineer, he was a more comfortable clothing.
scientist. Pronunciation
6 didn't put non-stickglue on 4a a now d house
his notebook, he put it on his
bookmarks. b found e clown
c noun f town
4 Student's own answers
Sa a slow c enough
b out
6 1 known 4 now
2 hose 5 town
3 noun 6 house