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Choose one word from the words in bold The first one is done for you.

Hi Jimmy,

Can you ​Pick up ​the kids from school this afternoon?

You need to be there_______ ​ in, on, at ​3:00, because Sally________

Finish, Goes out, Goes out, Gets in ​school at that time. Harvey

________​ needs, is, has ​football practice until 3:30.

You can wait in the______​cafe, bus stop, chemist ​Opposite the school,

get yourself a coffee and Sally an ice-cream.

I’ve got to work late I’ll be home at ______ ​always, about, for ​6 o’clock.

Love.

Answers: at, finishes,has,cafe,about.


Order the sentences below to make a story.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Answers: 3,4,2,6,1,5.
Drag the words into the correct boxes

These days IT technology seems relentless. But

tablets and E-book readers might not

replace the printed book especially

when it comes to bedtime stories.

According to a recent________ it

seems printed books are better for

children when reading with parents.

Real pages, which have to be turned

with your fingers, help improving interaction_______

parent and child more than reading on an electronic

device.The study which had a sample of 37 pairs of

parents and children looked at how they interact

when reading an e-book and printed book.

Researchers found that parents ask less questions

and_________ less comments about the story when

reading with an E-book. The researchers used three


types of books_______ for the study; printed books,

basic E-books and E-books with animation and

sound effects. It was found that children and parents

had less interaction with______ when reading the

digital formats than with the traditional paper books.

One researcher commented that the parents and

children_________ more about the E-book or tablet

being used than the actual story.

Answers: study,between,made,formats,each other,


talked.
Read the text below. Match the headings 1 to 8 to the
correspondent paragraphs. There is one extra heading,

The world’s first metro system was built in London. They


opened the first tunnel on the 10th January 1863, it
operated from the central London, Paddington to
Farringdon and was part of the Metropolitan Railway.
The trains at that time were steam engines

The Metropolitan Line still


exists and it appears on
London Underground map
today. Although there were
some problems with the
smoke from the steam
engines, the service was
very popular and the
district line was
constructed which extended the service to the suburbs.
Subsequently, a large network of underground and
surface rail lines were built over the next thirty years.
With the arrival of the 20th century, London had a very
extensive metro system.

21. What could be called in today’s terms London's first


“real” metro line was the City & South London Railway. It
was the first fully electric system and ran between
Stockwell and Bank in the City of London. The original
plan was for a cable railway, but due to the recent
developments in electrical engineering they changed
their plans and incorporated these new advances. This
new system was a totally modernised network and soon
became to be known as “the tube”.

22. London became the forerunner for other


underground systems across Europe which began
emerging in the late 19th century. At the beginning of
20th century Paris, Budapest and Glasgow had all built
their own underground train lines. Each one based on
the same system established in London. London always
wanted to stay one step ahead of the competition .
Another short line was opened, which went on to
become today’s Waterloo & City Line. In 1900 they
began electrifying all the lines on the Metropolitan and
District Railways which increased their efficiency.

23. Previously in the 18th century many attempts had


been made to build a tunnel under the river Thames but
at that time, digging deep tunnels was extremely risky
and fraught with problems and all attempts failed. But in
1843 Brunel’s Thames tunnel was completed and it
successfully crossed the Thames. In 1869 it became a
train tunnel and in 1870 another tunnel based on
Brunel’s plans was opened which also crossed the river
running from the Tower of London to Bermondsey.
24. The London underground system began its
expansion in the 1960s when the first new tube line in
central London for more than sixty years was opened,
the Victoria in 1969. In 1979 the Jubilee line was
opened. And during the nineties, expansion continued
with the extension of the Piccadilly line to Heathrow
airport and the Jubilee line was also extended.

25. London has a growing population which lives and


works in the city and it continually has to be improving
and expanding its underground system. There are
various plans to extend lines further into its suburbs and
increase the number of lines crossing the central
London. These plans are to ensure that the Tube
responds to the changing needs of the people who rely
on the the underground system every day.

Answers: the origins of the underground, early success and growth,


technological transformation, leading the way, overcoming physical
obstacles, later expansion, still the biggest and the best today.

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