Review for the test

UPPER B – UNITS 17/18/19INNOVATIONS

• Speed humps on the road to slow cars down.

• Officers on the street to look after the traffic.

• The punishment for breaking the law

SLEEPING POLICEMEN

TRAFFIC WARDENS

PENALTIES

• When there are lots of inhabitants in a city.

• An area inside or just outside a city where poor people live and it is usually a dangerous place.

• Black and white stripes on the road for pedestrians to cross over.

OVERCROWDED

INNER CITY

ZEBRA CROSSING

• The hard, difficult, usually boring work.

• To reveal a secret carelessly or by mistake.

• To do something for a very long time.

• When something becomes less popular and not as good as it used to be.

DONKEY WORK

LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG

TILL THE COWS COME HOME

GO TO THE DOGS

• To waste time looking for something usually because you were given misleading information about it or because it doesn’t even exist.

• Someone who does not talk much about the things he/she can do and you find it out later. This person is described as…

To go on a wild goose chase

(a bit of a ) DARK HORSE

• To do things differently from other people in the family. It often implies that what you do is considered bad.

• To tell somebody about something that is annoying or irritating you ( usually because you have kept it to yourself for a long time)

BLACK SHEEP

GET IT OFF YOUR CHEST

• A continuing situation in which one problem leads to another and the new problem makes the first one even worse.

• To prohibit something

VICIOUS CIRCLE

TO BAN

Match the words and make sentences

• END• RUN OUT OF• STRONG• AGREE UP TO• GO• TACKLE• DO• SLAM• BOTTLE• BEAT• PUT SOMEONE• PUT

• A POINT

• A PROBLEM

• ON THE BRAKES

• UP (5 x )

• VIEWS

• PETROL

• ON ABOUT

• UP WITH

• END UP• RUN OUT OF PETROL• STRONG VIEWS• AGREE UP TO A POINT• GO ON ABOUT• TACLE A PROBLEM / SITUATION• DO SOMETHING UP• SLAM ON THE BRAKES• BOTTLE UP• BEAT UP• PUT SOMEONE UP• PUT UP WITH

Passive voice forms• Present Simple – Cameras are made in

Japan.

• Present Continuous – Cameras are being made in Japan.

• Past Simple – Cameras were made in Japan.

• Past Continuous – Cameras were being made in Japan.

• Present Perfect – Cameras have been made in Japan.

• Past Perfect – Cameras had been made in Japan.

• Going to – Cameras are going to be made in Japan.

• Should – Cameras should be made in Japan.

Complete the sentences with the passive voice.

• The old houses downtown ______________ ______________ into shops and restaurants. ( TURN).

• It ______________ that if you drink passion fruit juice you fall asleep fast.

(BELIEVE)

• Mobile phones should _________________ as you enter the exam room. (TURN OFF)

HAVE BEEN TURNED

IS BELIEVED

BE TURNED OFF

• They grow coffee in Kenya.

• They publish The Times newspaper in London.

• They make shoes in Calatayud.

• They transport oranges from Valencia to Germany in special crates

• They are sending the parcel by sea.

• They are destroying the forests in Indonesia.

• The shark ate the man.

• The arsonist started the fire.

• The police took him away.

• They've treated him very well.

• They haven't cleaned the kitchen yet.

• They didn't punish him for what he did.