Vocabulary 1 Complete the sentences with the correct word in the proper form.
jeweller’s • optician’s • hair salon • foods • aisle • instantly • groceries • dissolve • access • endless
Try to ... this spot on your blouse with this washing powder.
We need some vegetables, let’s go to the … at the corner of the street.
Is it possible to buy any frozen ... in your supermarket?
You may have your eyes tested in any ... shop in our city.
This machine will dry such a small shirt for a few seconds, almost ... .
Do you have the net ... in your flat?
If you walk along this ... you will get into shoe department.
As a guest you are promised to have ... possibilities for entertainment.
I bought these earrings in our local ... as the line of goods is rather rich there.
What ... did you have your hair done?
2 Underline the correct item.
Test/check one’s eyes
Have a regular check/test up
Pick/take up a prescription
Dietary/diet advice
Run/rule home
Sliding/moving doors
Go to waste/garbage
Tempting/tempted display
Big/large hit
10. item of clothing/clothes
3 Use the phrasal verbs look, drop, turn, find, check, work, grow, spring to fill in the gaps.
Will you … up the prescription from the chemist’s on your way home?
You may … in any time when nearby. We’ll be glad to see you.
… into the case more thoroughly and you’ll find a lot of new details.
If you follow the nutritionist’s advice you will … into a slim lady within a month.
Can you call them and … out the time of our meeting?
You should … more carefully after you baby, it is still very small.
We live in the time when new technologies are bound to … up.
If George thinks properly he will … out the solution of his problem by evening. You are so tall and may easily … out what is there on the fridge. I cannot see it from here.
The number of cars used in the city will definitely … up in a few years.
Will you … up the prescription from the chemist’s on your way home?
Grammar
4 Choose the correct item.
1 They promise they … the repair in our room by Monday.
A will have done B will do C will have been doing
2 How long … you… in for jogging?
A have been going B had been going
C are going
3 Mark … a master class on Tuesday, at least he is planning so.
A is having B will have C is going to
4 Who is calling? – I …
A shall see B am going to see C will be seeing
5 What ... you ... to say? I can’t get your point.
A are trying B are you going C will say
6 Don’t call me. I still … at two.
A will be working B am working C will have been working
7 Is this report … than the one made by Jeff?
A a lot better B far much better C by far better
8 His project is … the best as it is beyond criticism!
A far B by far C more
9 Any reasonable man will deny … that.
A doing B do C to do
10 What can you expect him … in this case?
A do B doing C to do
Englishmen are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up. It has been the law for about three hundred years that all the theatres are closed on Sundays. No letters are delivered, only a few Sunday papers are published.To this day an English family prefers a house with a garden to a flat in a modern house with central heating. English people like gardens.Holidays are especially rich in old traditions and are different in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England. Christmas is a great English national holiday, and in Scotland it is not kept at all, except by clerks in banks; all the shops, mills and factories are working. But six days later, on New Years Eve the Scotch begin to enjoy themselves. All the shops, mills and factories are closed on New Years Day.People invite their friends to their houses and "sit the Old Year out and the New Year in".When the dock begins to strike twelve, the head of the family goes to the entrance door, opens it wide and holds it until the last stroke. Then he shuts the door. He has let the Old Year out and the New Year in.
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