Court / Course / Pitch / Track

Court: for playing a sport [countable]

             an area made for playing games such as tennis

             a tennis/volleyball/basketball/squash court

They were penalized for having too many players on the court.

Course: an area of land or water used for a sports event

              a golf course/cross-country course

Pitch: sports field [countable] British English

             a marked out area of ground on which a sport is played [= field]

             a football/cricket/rugby /hockey  pitch

Track: [C] a type of path or road, often in the shape of a ring, which has been specially designed and built for sports events, especially racing

            an all-weather track

            a dog/horse track

The runners are now on their final lap of the track.

Slope: (part of) the side of a hill or mountain

            a ski/mountain slope

 Snow had settled on some of the higher slopes.

BEAT - WIN - DRAW

"Beat" refers to the opponent in a game (Real Madrid beat Barcelona 2-0)  whereas "win" refers to the game in itself (Real Madrid won the match). Grammatically "beat" is always followed by an object but that's not the case with "win" (Real Madrid won).

win past tense and past participle won, present participle winning

1. competition/race [intransitive and transitive]

       to be the best or most successful in a competition, game, election etc [≠ lose]

win a race/a game/an election etc

Who do you think will win the next election?

 He won the Tour de France last year.

win a war/battle

The young pilots who won the Battle of Britain

 Who's winning (=who is most successful at this point in the game)?

win at

I never win at cards.

win by 10 points/70 metres etc

We won by just one point.

 He predicted the French would win hands down (=win very easily) in the play-offs.

beat past tense beat, past participle beaten

      1.competition/election [transitive]

        to get the most points, votes etc in a game, race, or competition [= defeat]:

Brazil were beaten, 2-1.

Labour easily beat the Conservatives in the last election.

beat somebody at/in something

I beat him more often at pool than he beats me.

draw past tense drew past participle drawn

      1. game [intransitive and transitive]

      especially British English

       to finish without either side winning in a game such as football [= tie]:

They drew 3-3.

draw with

Liverpool drew with Juventus.

Practice Tests - Keys

Practice Test 1  - 2012

I - READING COMPREHENSION. (The Nuclear Debate)

A) Decide whether the following statements are True or False.

1. F   2. T  3. T   4. T

B) Explain what the underlined words refer to:

5. fossil fuels

6. nuclear power

7. renewable sources

C) Choose the alternative which best defines the meaning of the word or phrase in context.

8. B

9. A

10.B

II - MULTIPLE CHOICE. 

1- b – is training / wants                            6- c – charge

2- c – baking                                               7- c – beat

3- b – had worked                                      8- c – yourself at the party

4- b – ‘ll return                                             9- a – away

5- a – filthy                                                   10- b – has written

III - FILL IN THE BLANKS. 

1-     went                                6-  have

2-     to                                      7-  how

3-     After                                 8-  said

4-     spent                               9-  at

5-     was                                  10-  had

IV - KEY WORD TRANSFORMATION. 

1-       … how I had GOT …

2-       … I had DECIDED …

3-       … HAVE been learning French … / HAVE been taking French lessons ….

4-       … bus takes longer THAN travelling …

5-       … Pete he would call HIM …

TEST (NEW ENGLISH FILE  Pre- Int File 9 / NEW ENGLISH FILE   Int File 1)

I - READING COMPREHENSION. (A day I will never forget)

A) Decide whether the following statements are True or False.

1. F   2. T  3. F   4. F

B) Explain what the underlined words refer to:

5. my instructor

6. the plane

7. the instructor and the narrator

C) Choose the alternative which best defines the meaning of the word or phrase in context.

8. C

9. A

10.B

Practice File 9 - Key

Put the verbs in brackets in the past simple or past perfect


1 had  2 was  3 had gone  4 was  5 had spent  6 watched  7 decided  8 felt   9 had locked  10 had closed
11 heard  12 was  13 got  14 walked 15 opened  16 laughed  17 had forgotten

Rewrite these sentences....
1 He asked me what the was.
2 She asked me where the post office was.
3 He asked me why I was late.
4.My brother wanted to know if it was raining again.
5 He wanted to know if I had ever met someone famous.

Put the words in these reported .....

1 He asked me if I had ever been to London
2 They wanted to know who he was.
3 I asked her to tell me her phone number.
4. She wanted to know why I wanted it.
5 The doctor asked me if I was feeling tired.
6 I asked the doctor what was wrong with me.

Key Word Transformation

1. Jane told her mother she needed help to do her homework.
3. After he had studied for 5 years, he got a degree.
4  I couldn't see the movie because they had closed the cinema 2 days ago.
5 Jack said he was leaving the next day for a holiday.
6 He told her he would phone her.
7 He said he had lost all his money on the train.
8 The boy asked Lisa where she was born.
9 She asked him if he was going to give her the money or not.
10 The police officer told Jack he couldn't park there.
11 What are you going to do at the weekend?

Word Formation

Failure  - retirement  -  reliable  - impatient  - talkative

Fill n the blanks

1 been   2 never  3 had  4 when   5 was  6 told   7 but  8 luckily  9 stop  10 since

Revise and check File 2

Grammar
a 1 already  2 long  3 Since  4 Have  5 yet
b 1 been working  2 just made  3 more expensive  4 carefully as  5 the most
 
Vocabulary
a 1 bank  2 mortgage  3 hungry  4 awful  5 travel  6 helmet  7 railway station
b 1 filthy  2 tax  3 rush hour  4 lend  5 platform  6 inherit  7 boarding pass/card  8 tiny
c 1 off  2 out  3 for  4 back  5 by

Pronunciation
a 1 coach  2 tiny  3 charge  4 cycle  5 earn
b invest  security   luggage  pedestrian  terrified

Can you understand these text?
a 1a  2 b  3 c  4 a  5 b

My life without money

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Heidemarie Schwermer

Heidemarie Schwermer was born in 1942 in Memel (former East Prussia). During World War II, she and her family came as refugees to Germany, where she grew up. She worked as a teacher for almost 20 years, before she left her position and became a psychotherapist. She has two children and three grandchildren.

In 1994 she founded the “Give and take central” – Germany’s first exchange circle. Two years later she gave away all of her belongings in order to make an experiment where she would live without using money. Slowly but surely she has managed to step out of the existing structures and find a new way of living, free of worries and possessions.

Heidemarie has published the book Das Sterntalerexperiment – mein Leben ohne Geld (“The sterntaler experiment – my life without money”)  The book is translated into Italian, Spanish, Japanese and South Korean.

On Heidemarie’s website you can find more information on her thoughts, her life and her experience with living without money. Here you can also download her second book (in German) for free .

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