B2 One Day Practice 33

Today's phrasal verb means: "to make something appear less important"

The team are trying to play ........ the recent run of defeats by blaming it on individual players.

• around

• down

• on

• behind

Word Formation: Today's word: "ATTRACT"

Most people find the idea of working for nothing very ........ .

Word Formation: Today's word: "ATTRACT"

The book is very ........ illustrated.

Collocation:

Today's phrase: "to ........ a message"

I'd like to ....... a message for Mr Martin please. Can you tell him I'll be arriving about 2.00.

• hand

• give

• put

• leave

Open/Cloze - Part 2

In addition to being responsible for design changes to the motorbike,

I have to work _______ every stunt I do.

UOE PART 4:

Do not change the given word. You must use between TWO and FIVE words, including the word given.

I haven’t smoked for six years.

GAVE

Six years______________________smoking

Reading PART 6: Choose a sentence which fits best in the gap:

Those first classes I took were remarkably similar to the last. In fact, taking into account the occasional new idea, ballet classes have changed little since 1820, when the details of ballet technique were first written down, and are easily recognised in any country. Starting with the left hand on the barre, the routine unrolls oversome 75 minutes. ___________

Even the leading dancers have to do it.

• No one avoids this: it is ballet's great democratiser, the well established members of the company working alongside the newest recruits.

• The principle is identical in the gym pushing yourself to the limit, but not beyond, will eventually bring the desired result.

• Through endless tries at the usual exercises and frequent failures, ballet dancers develop the neural pathways in the brain necessary to

  control accurate, fast and smooth movement.