4.Is it sport?（四单元）

1.a:1 football, cycling and ice skating 2 and 3 students' own answers

b:l texts2and3 

2 texts1and2

3 text2 

4 texts 2and 3

5 text1 

6 texts land 3

c:1E 2C 3H 4F 5G 6B 7D 8A

2.a:general;specific;non-ability;ability

b:2 managed to/were able to 3 couldn't 4 managed to 5been able to 6 could/was able to

OPTIONAL ACTIVITY

1 After a long climb, I managed to reach the top of the mountain.

2 When I was young I couldn't swim.

3 I could ride a bike when I was seven. It was easy.

4 I looked everywhere, but couldn't find it.

3.a:The first photo is of a tennis player, the second photo is of footballers. Both show an argument during a match.

b:1 football, tennis, golf, athletics, rugby 2 c

c:1J 2J 3P 4J 5P 6J

4.a:having a positive result: overcome, pull something off, fulfil, make it

having a negative result: fall through, blow something, mess something up, go wrong

b:2 blow it 3 made it 4 fell through 5 pull it off 6 overcome 7 fulfils 8 messed up

c:1 up; went 2 through 3 make 4 overcome

5.a:2 take the game~winning shot 3 come second 4get it right 5 can't win 6 win or lose

c:1swimming;without;water 2better than coming last 3 born 4 making friends

6.a:students' own answers

c:1 For 2 of 3 So 4 in 5 For 6 so 7 to 8 it 9 just 10 With 11 the 12 too 13 for 14 their 15 of 16 So

d:a side by side

b locked in heated battle

c under the microscope

d sacrifice their lives

e:1 a cinema b painting c writing(mainly journalism,but also novels,poetry,non-fiction.etc.) d physics,chemistry,literature,medicine peace a music

2and3students' own answers

7.a:1 football 2 Newhaven, they name some of the Newhaven players and a teacher ,but refer to “the Shorthouse captain” and “the last Shorthouse player".

b:2 coolly3 few and far between 4 bitterly5 sealed6 put the ball over the bar7sizing up 8 smashed in

Check your progress 

1.Grammar 

a:2 What I don't understand is why people want to play computer games.

3 It's people wasting their time and money that makes me really angry.

4 What's most important is being careful with your money.

5 It was the end of the film that was the really interesting bit.

6 It's sitting in front of a computer for a tong time that I don't like.

7 What will be more and more common in the future are virtual worlds.

b:

2. vocabulary

a:2 currency 3 interest 4 economic 5 purchase

b:2F 3T 4F 5F

How did you do? 

Students work out their scores. Check how they have done and follow up any problem areas with revision work.