Where can you find the CHECK IN bell sign shown?

Where can you find the sign that says IN CASE OF EMERGENCY BREAK GLASS?

Where can you find the QUEUE HERE sign with people standing in line?

Where can you find the ROAD WORK AHEAD sign?

Where can you find the DANGEROUS CURRENT sign that warns swimmers?

Where can you find the safety poster that says BE CAREFUL — STAY ALERT — DON’T GET HURT?

This laundry sign with a crossed iron means what?

You can find these clothing care symbols (wash, dry, 30°) in which place?

How is the weather like in the photo shown?

How is the weather like in the picture with dark clouds, rain, and lightning?

How is the weather like in the picture of a girl being blown by strong wind?

Where can you find the sign that shows a crossed-out person fishing (no fishing)?

Where can you see the 0–3 age warning sign (not suitable for ages 0–3)?

This sign with a crossed-out hand feeding birds means what?

You can see the NO PARKING IN FRONT OF THESE GATES THANK YOU sign where?

The FIRE EQUIPMENT KEEP CLEAR sign means what?

The ACCESSIBLE PARKING sign reserved for persons with disabilities means what?

Where can you find the poster that says buy one, get second item half price?

The pool notice says NO LIFEGUARD IS ON DUTY. SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK. CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 15 MAY NOT USE THE SWIMMING POOL WITHOUT ADULT SUPERVISION. What does this mean?

Exercise 1 — From the list A–H, choose the hotel word that matches this description: In many countries porters expect this when they serve you.

Exercise 1 — From the list A–H, choose the hotel word that matches this description: Someone who carries your bags to your hotel room.

Exercise 1 — From the list A–H, choose the hotel word that matches this description: If you want a meal from the hotel delivered to your room you ask for.

Exercise 1 — From the list A–H, choose the hotel word that matches this description: The main entrance of a hotel is called.

What time are you leaving?

Do you have money?

How have you been?

How far is your hotel?

I lost my wallet

I think doing exercise is good for your health.

Would you spell that for me?

I need some bread and some eggs

I’m afraid they don’t have any Ocean Perch. What else do you need?

Is the Cuban sandwich bigger than the American?

Do you care for dessert?

How long have you been juggling today?

Reserve your plane tickets in advance.

You should invite your grandmother to the wedding.

Don’t eat too many cakes!

Don’t lift that box!

You should have your car serviced regularly.

Why didn’t you come to the pool yesterday?

I have to go home now.

Whose phone is that?

There weren’t any more tickets for the match.

Shall we play that new computer game?

Is Colin coming to the party?

I’ll cook lunch today.

I’m too hot with this coat.

Why didn’t you go to school yesterday?

Hello? Annie, I’ve been waiting for you more than 15 minutes?

I came first in the race.

How far is the police station?

Shall we watch TV?

Whose jacket is this?

Linda won a gold medal.

EXERCISE 3 — CYBER ADDICTION: Complete the sentence by choosing the correct word to fill the blank. "However, (17) the internet, particularly the social networking websites, unsafely puts the teenagers at very high risk for many problems."

EXERCISE 3 — CYBER ADDICTION: Complete the sentence by choosing the correct word to fill the blank. "As they spend more time on social networking, gaming, and other websites, particularly adult sites, they suffer from cyber addiction. When children spend more than enough or agreeable time online they (18) to be cyber addicts."

EXERCISE 3 — CYBER ADDICTION: Complete the sentence by choosing the correct word to fill the blank. "Cyber addiction can be just as (19) as addiction to drugs or drinking alcohol."

EXERCISE 3 — CYBER ADDICTION: Complete the sentence by choosing the correct word to fill the blank. "Parents should talk to their children and agree on a list of rules that (20) say when to use the internet, which sites they should visit and what safety measures they should follow."

EXERCISE 3 — CYBER ADDICTION: Complete the sentence by choosing the correct word to fill the blank. "Teachers can also (21) safe browsing of the web at schools and colleges for teenage students."

EXERCISE 4 — BULLYING: Complete the sentence by choosing the correct word to fill the blank. "Bullying (22) fear in the minds of kids, and makes them nervous going to school each day."

EXERCISE 4 — BULLYING: Complete the sentence by choosing the correct word to fill the blank. "The teenage children may be subject to heavy bullying as they may not understand (23) extreme it can get."

EXERCISE 4 — BULLYING: Complete the sentence by choosing the correct word to fill the blank. "(24) form of bullying is relentless, causing the affected teenagers to live in a state of constant fear."

EXERCISE 4 — BULLYING: Complete the sentence by choosing the correct word to fill the blank. "Bullying leads to more (25) behaviour in the bullies in their adult years."

EXERCISE 4 — BULLYING: Complete the sentence by choosing the correct word to fill the blank. "Parents, teachers, and people in general should educate their teenagers about bullying and tell them to (26) any act of bullying to them."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "The Tintin books 27 ____ been published in 96 different languages and have sold a total of more than 200 million copies worldwide."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "They have been around for more 28 ____ half a century."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "The hero Tintin has crossed continents, cultures and the Cosmos looking 29 ____ adventure."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "His creator was an illustrator 30 ____ Belgium called Georges Hergé."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "He was born 31 ____ 1907 and spent an incredibly boring childhood in Etterbeek, a dull suburb of Brussels."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "Hergé based the character of Tintin on 32 ____ childhood dreams and games."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "Tintin has been to the moon, ridden sharks, visited Tibet, captured gangsters, had adventures with cowboys and Indians, travelled in Egypt, 33 ____ in China, hunted and found treasures, and many more things besides."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "34 ____ , from 1948 onwards Hergé started to feel imprisoned by Tintin."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "Some teenagers feel too fat, too skinny, too tall, too short, etc. This feeling leads them to spend time wishing they 35 ____ not too skinny, too short, their hair was not too curly or vice versa."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "The problem with this 36 ____ is that it affects their self-image."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "When they do not like 37 ____ in themselves, they have self-esteem and body image problems."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "Hormonal changes have 38 ____ effects on the general growth and mood of the teens."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "Teenagers who experience negative comments about their appearances, the way they talk, etc., also 39 ____ poor self-esteem and body image."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "‘Pulps’ were small books 40 ____ on the newsstands usually filled with action heroes going to exotic places and having adventures."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "While they certainly did things that were beyond what a normal person could do, they weren’t called superheroes or marketed as if they had abilities 41 ____ a person at their physical peak."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "He was created by Elzie Segar and first 42 ____ in a strip called Thimble Theatre in 1929."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "The Phantom made his debut on February 17th, 1936 and he was the first 43 ____ hero."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "The Clock was a masked detective; this is the first time a character used a mask to 44 ____ his face."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "He 45 ____ nicknamed ‘Al’ at an early age."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "Thomas Edison struggled 46 ____ school, but learned to love reading and conducting experiments from his mother."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "who taught 47 ____ at home."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "Eventually, he 48 ____ for the Union Army as a telegrapher."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "He soon formed his own company 49 ____ manufactured the new stock tickers."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "with help from ‘muckers,’ individuals 50 ____ around the world looking to make fortunes in America, invented the phonograph."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "In 1878, Edison invented the light bulb 51 ____ the power grid system, which could generate electricity and deliver it to homes through a network of wires."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "He 52 ____ three more children and moved to West Orange, New Jersey."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "He also invented the world’s first 53 ____ doll."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "Edison worked 54 ____ his death on October 18, 1931."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "James Gordon Brown ... is a British Labour Party politician, 55 ____ has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1983, currently for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "He served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader 56 ____ the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "Immediately before this, he had 57 ____ as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "His tenure ended 58 ____ May 2010, when he resigned as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "His tenure ended in May 2010, when he resigned as Prime Minister and Leader of 59 ____ Labour Party."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "60 ____ Prime Minister, he also held the offices of First Lord of the Treasury and the Minister for the Civil Service."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "... and 61 ____ transferring responsibility for banking supervision to the Financial Services Authority."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "... and the removal in 62 ____ final budget of the 10% ‘starting rate’ of personal income tax ..."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "A year later, Labour 63 ____ 91 seats in the House of Commons at the 2010 general election."

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: "64 ____ 11 May 2010, Brown officially resigned as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party."

Read the passage: THE END OF THE EARTH. Most people arrive by plane. It is the easiest way to get there and sometimes the only one. At some seasons of the year, when powerful storms roar in from Antarctica, you cannot even fly there. At other times you fly across the high peaks of the Andes Mountains, then the plane dives fast towards the sea, turns at the last minute and lands safely at the airport just outside the town. You have arrived at the end of the earth: Ushuaia, the most southern city in the world. You are on the Argentinian half of the island of Tierra del Fuego, the most southern point of South America. This is the last place that you can buy a CAN of cola before the South Pole. Ushuaia is a strange place, with the freezing water of the Southern Ocean on one side and the beautiful slopes and forest of the Andes immediately behind the city. Twenty years ago only about 8000 people used to live here, but since then the city has grown fast. Businesses have come here, electronics factories have opened and thousands more people have arrived to work. Ushuaia now has a population of about 50000 people. It used to be a small quiet town of wooden houses but today there are modern office buildings, hotels, shopping centres and fast food restaurants. For more than 60 years Ushuaia prison was the home of some of Argentina’s most dangerous criminals. Then in 1947 the prison closed and it has now become one of the city’s tourist attractions, a museum. In the last twenty years tourists have ‘found’ Ushuaia. They come here in large groups, from as far away as China and Japan, usually to see the penguins and other wildlife in the area. Ushuaia has become one of South America’s favorite tourist destinations, for people who want to escape to the end of Earth. What is the author trying to do with this text?

Read the passage: THE END OF THE EARTH. Most people arrive by plane. It is the easiest way to get there and sometimes the only one. At some seasons of the year, when powerful storms roar in from Antarctica, you cannot even fly there. At other times you fly across the high peaks of the Andes Mountains, then the plane dives fast towards the sea, turns at the last minute and lands safely at the airport just outside the town. You have arrived at the end of the earth: Ushuaia, the most southern city in the world. You are on the Argentinian half of the island of Tierra del Fuego, the most southern point of South America. This is the last place that you can buy a CAN of cola before the South Pole. What does the word CAN mean?

Read the passage: THE END OF THE EARTH. Most people arrive by plane. It is the easiest way to get there and sometimes the only one. At some seasons of the year, when powerful storms roar in from Antarctica, you cannot even fly there. At other times you fly across the high peaks of the Andes Mountains, then the plane dives fast towards the sea, turns at the last minute and lands safely at the airport just outside the town. What is the easiest way to get there?

Read the passage: THE END OF THE EARTH. Twenty years ago only about 8000 people used to live here, but since then the city has grown fast. Businesses have come here, electronics factories have opened and thousands more people have arrived to work. Ushuaia now has a population of about 50000 people. It used to be a small quiet town of wooden houses but today there are modern office buildings, hotels, shopping centres and fast food restaurants. How did Antarctica use to be?

Read the passage: THE END OF THE EARTH. You have arrived at the end of the earth: Ushuaia, the most southern city in the world. This is the last place that you can buy a CAN of cola before the South Pole. In the last twenty years tourists have ‘found’ Ushuaia… Ushuaia has become one of South America’s favorite tourist destinations, for people who want to escape to the end of Earth. According to the text how is Ushuaia known?

Read the passage: BEAUTY… IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. What’s your idea of an attractive person? Someone with long, flowing hair? Or someone with a perfectly smooth, hairless head? Do you find pierced ears attractive? What about pierced noses? If you ask ten people these questions, you get ten different answers. The idea of beauty varies a lot from person to person and even more so, from society. The male Kayapo Indians from the Amazon have their lower lips stretched. They have a round plate fitted inside. This may seem horrible to you, but to the Kayapo it is a sign of beauty. In some parts of Myanmar, where long necks are desirable, women have necklets —decorated metal rings— wound round their necks to make them longer. Some fashions develop from religious beliefs. Rastafarians wear their long hair twisted into thick strands. These are called dreadlocks. The lion is an important symbol in their religion and the dreadlocks symbolize a lion’s mane. Many other people, black and white, have adopted this hairstyle simply because they find it attractive. The search for beauty is not a modern phenomenon. In ancient Egypt people had their nails, palms and soles of their feet stained with henna, a red vegetable dye. They also highlighted the veins on their temples with blue paint. Women had their skin lightened with ochre, a reddish-yellow colouring; men had theirs darkened with orange paint. Both men and women used to line their eyes heavily with a black powder called kohl. We may disagree on what is beautiful but that makes the world a more interesting place. Imagine how boring it would be if we all looked the same or had the same opinions! Variety, after all, is the spice of life. What is the author trying to do with the text?

Read the passage: BEAUTY… IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. The idea of beauty varies a lot from person to person and even more so, from society. How does the idea of beauty vary?

Read the passage: BEAUTY… IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. Some fashions develop from religious beliefs. Rastafarians wear their long hair twisted into thick strands. These are called dreadlocks. The lion is an important symbol in their religion and the dreadlocks symbolize a lion’s mane. Many other people, black and white, have adopted this hairstyle simply because they find it attractive. According to the text, white and black have adopted this hairstyle:

Read the passage: BEAUTY… IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. In the text, “The lion is an important symbol in their religion and the dreadlocks symbolize a lion’s mane”, “lion” refers to

Read the passage: BEAUTY… IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. We may disagree on what is beautiful but that makes the world a more interesting place. Imagine how boring it would be if we all looked the same or had the same opinions! Variety, after all, is the spice of life. Which of the following statements would the writer make?