Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Final Exam - Grammar ANSWERS





 
Decide if you should use “so” or “neither” to show similarity, and complete the sentences using the pronouns / nouns in brackets. (Don’t forget to use a comma and “and”)

  1. He knows how to swim. (we)
    He knows how to swim, and so do we.
  2. She enjoyed herself. (I)
    She enjoyed herself, and so did I.
  3. He isn't lazy. ( I)
    He isn’t lazy, and neither am I.
  4. He'll never be rich. ( I)
    He’ll never be rich, and neither will I.
  5. I've lost a lot of money. (my brother Tim)
    I’ve lost a lot of money, and so has my brother Tim.

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    Complete the sentences with the Simple Present, the Present Continuous, the Simple Past, the Past Continuous or the Present Perfect of the verbs in brackets and put the adverbs in the correct place. 
1.       Portuguese banks open (to open) at 8 o'clock.
2.       They always play (to play) the piano in the evening.
3.       Yesterday she wasn’t (not/to be) in a good mood because she lost (to lose) her keys.
4.       Last year she spent (to spend) most of her time on the beach.
5.       I haven’t eaten (not/to eat) fish since I was eleven.
6.       I was listening (to listen) to music when you called (to call) last night.
7.       Did she go (she/to go) to Spain two years ago?
8.       She usually goes (usually/to go) to school by bus.
9.       She gave (to give) him a watch yesterday.
10.   I haven’t bought (not/to buy) a carpet yet.
11.   He swims (to swim) three miles every day.
12.   Let's go away! We have been (to be) here for more than two hours.
13.   Where did you go (you/to go) for a holiday last year?
14.   She is very tired because she hasn’t slept (not/to sleep) for two days.
15.   My mother just went / has just gone (just/to go) to the market.
16.   Mr. Morgan is the tallest man I have ever known (ever/to know).
17.   My mother likes (to like) vegetables and so we eat (to eat) vegetable soup very often.
18.   She usually goes (to go) to work by car.
19.   Peter can't come to the phone right now. He is taking (to take) a shower.
20.   While they were having (to have) dinner, someone knocked (to knock) at the door.
 
 




Final Exam - Vocabulary ANSWERS


Vocabulary

Use words from the box to complete the following sentences:

discriminated
ambitious
putting up
obstacles
awkward
discriminatory
scolded
difficult

 

1. Employers should not have discriminatory policies that work against immigrant and minority groups.

2. Linda is a(n) ambitious woman.  She wants to get ahead.

3. When immigrants come here, they face many obstacles and experience many tough situations.

4. Some children feel awkward when they meet someone who’s different.

5. My mother always scolded me when she got angry at me.

 

 

 

 

Complete the following chart:

Verb
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
 
employ
 
 
employment

employed 
 
********
 
*********
 
flexibility
 
flexible
 

flexibly 
 
*********
 
 
resilience

resilient 

resiliently 
 
*********
 
efficiency
 
efficient
 

efficiently
 
invade
 

invasion 

invaded 
 
*********

 

Monday, July 20, 2015

FINAL EXAM - WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY

STUDY GUIDE - Final Exam - VOCABULARY

p. 5
to give up
apparently
to diminish
to maintain
to look out for
aimless
to pray
humiliation
to disappoint
pressure
hilarious
p. 7
to scold
to lack
to hug
p. 12
equivalent
delinquency
crowd
alienated
contrast
conduct
p. 13
achievement
findings
whether
peer
p. 16
willpower
to ignore
to blame
to tease
p. 18
mean
cruel
minor
to bother
to comment
p. 19
to make fun of
weird
awkward
to presume
to put up with
to stick up for
to stay behind
p. 20
capable
p. 25
academy
academic
academically
achievement
to achieve
alien
alienation
to alienate
alienated
analysis
to analyze
analytical
analytically
appearance
to appear
apparent
apparently
delinquency
delinquent
disappointment
to disappoint
disappointed
disappointing
humiliation
to humiliate
humiliated
humiliating
influence
to influence
influential
trauma
to traumatize
traumatic
p. 32
persecution
resourcefulness
perseverance
obstacle
endurance
determined
smuggler
labor
qualified
to integrate
racism
xenophobia
p. 34
asset
better-off
eager
discrimination
rewarding
flexible
to integrate
p. 41
to attribute
vicious
ambition
to deserve
empowering
to oversee
to make up for
to enable
impressed
to impress
destiny
p. 42
ambitious
contributing
to make ends meet
on the horizon
tough
vicious cycle
to evolve
p. 48
forlorn
ethnic
conflict
reputation
thrift
deposit
concentration
proportionally
thriving
to promote
decent
to pool wages
work ethic
p. 49
newcomer
unexpected
revival
revitalizing
unemployment
decent
revival
welfare
pooling
p. 53
to signal
outsider
to insert
sporadically
gossip
to articulate
longings
to transfer
to resonate
p. 54
ashamed
distinct
lyrics
outsider
to resonate
p. 55
ambition
ambitious
discrimination
to discriminate
discriminatory
employment
unemployment
employer
employee
to employ
employed
unemployed
flexibility
inflexibility
flexible
inflexible
flexibly
migration
emigrant
emigration
immigrant
immigration
to migrate
to emigrate
to immigrate
qualification
to qualify
qualified
resilience
resilient
resiliently
revival
revive
p. 61
overusing
solely
sequentially
efficiently
anxious
p. 63
to engage
obsessive
to accomplish
to prioritize
to compete
competing
doomed
addict
p. 64
to concentrate
to focus
buddies
pals
siblings
complex
complicated
simultaneously
gadget
to keep someone from
to prevent
to keep in touch
to break free from
amazing
to accomplish
addict
device
efficiently
p.68
incident
to take for granted
autonomy
to refurbish
p. 69
to recruit
to saturate
recipient
dedication
to coordinate
autonomy
to coordinate
to donate
to equip
incredible
recipient
p. 73
tactic
gender
ethnicity
surveillance
retailer
p. 74
target
to bombard
invasion of privacy
p. 78
anxious
ashamed
purchase
to trigger
ratio
range
unique
to cut down on
to resist
to tidy up
to deduce
p. 80
accomplishment
to accomplish
addict
addiction
addictive
addicted
anxiety
anxious
anxiously
efficiency
efficient
efficiently
invasion
to invade
invasive
obsession
to obsess
obsessive
obsessively
priority
to prioritize
recipient
to receive
sequence
to sequence
sequential
sequentially
simultaneous
simultaneously
p. 88
average
expectation
to lead to
marital
optimistic
tough

Sunday, July 19, 2015

STUDY GUIDE - Final Exam - GRAMMAR

Verb Tenses (simple present, present progressive, simple past, present perfect, present perfect progressive, past perfect, simple future, future progressive)
Similarities - Additions (too, so, either, neither)
Tags
Gerunds & Infinitives (enjoy, quit, want, expect, need, would like, stop, remember, forget)

Causative Verbs (make, have, get, help, let)


Thursday, July 16, 2015

Assignments - Monday 7/20/15

FoG4:
Do the exercises on pages 161 to 165.
Study the Grammar Presentation on pages 242 to 245.
WoR2:
Read "Untitled" on pages 90-91.
Do the Comprehension Check and Vocabulary exercises on pages 91 to 93.

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Assignments - Thursday 7/16/15

FoG4:
Review grammar charts on pages 141 to 143.
Do exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 on pages 144 to 150.