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Unit 9 Vocabulary Practice Out and About

This document provides vocabulary practice related to music. It includes a table to complete with music-related words, sentences to choose the best answers for, matching exercises to connect verbs with prepositions and idioms, and identifying American vs. British English terms. The document covers topics such as musical instruments, performances, the music industry, and idiomatic phrases.

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Unit 9 Vocabulary Practice Out and About

This document provides vocabulary practice related to music. It includes a table to complete with music-related words, sentences to choose the best answers for, matching exercises to connect verbs with prepositions and idioms, and identifying American vs. British English terms. The document covers topics such as musical instruments, performances, the music industry, and idiomatic phrases.

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Vocabulary practice Unit 9

Music American English vs British


1 Complete the table with the words from the box. The words
English
can be used more than once.
4 Are the words in bold American or British English? Write
Am if they are American and Br if they are British. Write the
audience concert hall drum kit lead guitarist
other option next to it.
microphone musical score outdoor stage
1 Take the rubbish out now!
recording studio violinist
2 I always take the underground to go to work.

Pop festival Live gig Album Orchestra 3 My dad had to go to the drugstore to get some aspirin
yesterday evening.
4 Don’t cross there! Go to the crosswalk.
5 After dinner, we asked for the check.
6 His car stopped because it had run out of petrol.

7 Do you want a biscuit?


8 I hate these trousers. I’m going to give them away.
2 Choose the best answers to complete the sentences.
1 The audience / violinist stood up and clapped for ten 5 Complete the text with the words from the box.
minutes after the performance.
2 I use headphones / microphone to listen to my music when I cell check chips crosswalk fries sidewalk
travel on public transport.
subway vacation
3 We went to the concert hall / recording studio to make a CD.
4 The drum kit / musical score to this film is amazing.
5 The singer didn’t need a guitarist / microphone to be heard. When I was an au pair in the USA, getting directions on
the street was very confusing. I found out there was a
6 The rock concert / violinist was incredible. I didn’t stop
1 and not an underground for travel. I was
dancing all night.
told to cross roads at the 2 and to walk on
7 The drum kit / rock concert was broken and the drummer the 3 not the pavement.
couldn’t play the drums.
As if that wasn’t difficult enough, all my favourite foods
PV had different names too. Chips were 4 and
crisps were 5 . It was all too confusing for
3 Match the verbs from box A with the prepositions from me. I was told that my phone wasn’t a mobile but a
box B to form phrasal verbs. Then match them with their 6 . And I couldn’t ask for the bill in a
definitions 1–6. restaurant, I had to ask for a 7 . For my next
holiday or rather 8 , I will go to Australia –
maybe I will learn some different English words for things
be fit hang move sing take A
there.

along (x2) into in out up B


Idioms
1 to sing to a piece of music when someone is singing it
6 Match the beginnings of the sentences 1–4 with their
endings a–d.
2 to start doing a particular job or activity
1 Thanks for the good news. I’m over …
3 to spend time with someone 2 I had to play the piano right there on …
3 I was so nervous, I went …
4 to ask someone to leave a place 4 I hope your album breaks all records. Fingers …

a to pieces.
5 to feel that you belong to a particular group
b crossed.

6 to be enthusiastic or interested in something c the moon.


d the spot.

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