2014 News Quiz Vocab Review_inter

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News quiz 2014

LANGUAGE REVIEW AND PRACTICE

A. Match the verbs in the left column with the noun phrases in the right tomake collocations from the news quiz. The first one has been done for you.

1. went

2. declare

3. made

4. was rushed

5. become

6. went

7. was sentenced

8. commit

9. made

10. reached

to five years in jail

to the polls

its destination

independence

a crime

headlines

on trial

a sensation

to hospital

history

Now do the same with collocations 11-20

11. caused

12. paid

13. committed

14. were taken

15. go down

16. won

17. tied

18. raise

19. tasted

20. raised

the knot

hostage

eyebrows

suicide

a gold medal

awareness

victory

in history

last respects

outrage

Try to remember in what context the above collocations were used.


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B. Without looking at the previous page, write a verb that goes with all thenouns in each line.

_____________ on trial / to the polls / to prison / viral _____________ a gold medal / the song contest / the award

_____________ awareness / money / (someones) eyebrows

_____________ suicide / a crime

_____________ headlines / history / an effort / a speech

_____________ control / somebody hostage / responsibility

C. Rewrite the following sentences using the Passive so that the meaning isthe same.

Oscar Pistorius got a five-year jail sentence.

= Oscar Pistorius was___________________________________in jail.

Brazil lost 7-1 in the semi-final of the World Cup.

= Brazil was _______________________________________________.

Robin Williams won an Oscar for his role in Good Will Hunting.= Robin Williams was ________________________________________.

A gunman took a group of people hostage in a Lindt caf in Sydney.

= A group of people were ________________________________________.

Look back at the news quiz to check your answers.


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C. Complete the gaps in the sentences below. The first letter of the missingword is given.

1 A severe outbreak of the d ______ Ebola virus started in Guinea.

2 A video of a cat saving a four-year-old from a dog attack went v _____.3 Veteran actor Robin Williams was not only a comic g ______;4 he was also famous for his memorable dramatic r _____.

5 George Clooney, Hollywood s long-time b _______ finally tied the knot6 in a p ______ ceremony in Venice.

Now try to complete sentences 7-12 without the first letter given.

7 Formula 1 star Michael Schumacher was rushed to hospital in a ________ condition after a skiing accident.

8 There was a growing __________ between Russia and the West in2014 after Russia took control of Crimea, a part of Ukraine with

9 historical _______ to Russia.

10 Killings of innocent _______ at the hands of ISIS caused outragearound the world.

11 The aim of the Ice Bucket Challenge was to raise money for fightingLou Gehrigs disease, a ______ disease which causes your nerve cellsto die.

12 Malaysia Airlines lost two airplanes under most mysterious _________.

Look back at the quiz to check.


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News quiz 2014

VOCABULARY EXPANSION

Look at some of the phrases from the previous exercises. Can you think ofother words that can go in these phrases instead of the underlined words?

1 people were taken hostage

2 his memorable roles

3 in a private ceremony

4 There was a growing tension

5 with historical ties to

6 was rushed to hospital

7 in a critical condition

8 killings of innocent civilians

9 under most mysterious circumstances

10 first tasted victory

Use Netspeak (www.netspeak.org ) to check your predictions. Use multipledots instead of the underlined words.

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