Intermedio 2 - Reading pp. 96 & 97

Here are the answers:

b 6 things Americans do that drive Brits crazy
2G   3I   5F   6C

6 things Brits do that drive Americans crazy
1 A    3H     4D    5B

c Text 1
1 compliment     2 awesome    3 turkey    4 get    5 creepy

Text 2
6 nod   7 fortnight   8 weird    9 inaccurate   10 would rather

Avanzado 2 - exam tracks

Here's the track of the headings task (you should only listen to it once) and this is the track of the fill-in-the-blanks task (you can listen to it twice).

Avanzado 2 - Participle clauses and Review Unit 7 - Answer keys

Here is the answer to the exercise on participle clauses:

Looking through a newspaper one day, he saw a cottage for sale in a picturesque rural area. Situated in a small village near the church, it had a conservatory and a large garden containing fruit trees: it seemed perfect. Not known for his decisiveness, Charlie surprised everyone by putting down a deposit on it the very next day. Having seen it once, he immediately made up his mind to buy it.

Having moved into the cottage, he soon realized it was not the peaceful rural idyll he had expected. Chiming every hour on the hour, the church bells kept him awake at night. Also, the village being in an area of outstanding beauty, coachloads of tourists arrived every weekend disturbing the peace and quiet. Worst of all, objecting to the presence of outsiders in the village, the locals were unfriendly towards him. Having lived there for six months, Charlie decided to move back to the city.

 

and here are the answers to the review section of unit 7:

1 1 A popular television actor convicted of dangerous driving
2 John Hope, known to television viewers as 'Pricey'
3 leaving a trail of destruction
4 Hope, said to be depressed
5 causing extensive damage to the property
6 suffering from multiple fractures
7 when arrested by police
8 shouting
9 (When) Passing sentence
10 Having heard the evidence
11 Speaking to journalists after the trial, Hope's Lawyer announced

2 1 orderly 2 rowdy 3 disruptive, lenient 4 best, foul, serious

3 1C 2 D 3C 4B 5 A

4 The following words can be omitted:  A Would you   B I    A Is there     B I've got,     It     A Have you B I'm     A It     B     I     A Is there     B Have you     A Are     B I was

5 1, 8, 10, 4, 7, 2, 9, 3, 5, 11, 6

Avanzado 2 - Hint fiction - audio

Here's the link to the radio programme on hint fiction.

Intermedio 2 - have something done - class examples

Here are the examples we worked on in class last week.

Avanzado 2 - Review Unit 8 - Answer key

Here are the answers:

1 1 nature; light   2 streak; high    3 attitude; easy    4 sense; loud     5 lack; short     6 type; hard     7 tendency; late     8 nature; wide

2 1 terms     2 family    3 relations/links     4 breakups     5 rapport     6 links/ relations

3 1 five days' holiday/ a five-day holiday; end of March
2 company's chief executive/ chief executive of the company; man of great integrity; corruption scandal; source of shock
3 referee's decision/ decision of the referee; last night's cup final; outbreak of violence
4 diamond wedding ring; coffee mug; kitchen cupboards/ cupboards in the kitchen
5 look of surprise; people's faces/ the faces of people; women's clothes, fancy dress party

4 1 for one thing    2 on top of   3 Mind you    4 Actually   5 After all   6 Anyway   7 ironically     8 At least   9 To be honest    10 Surely    11 mean    12 Besides    13 fact    14 Ultimately

Intermedio 2 - Reading page 71 - Answer key

Here are the answers to exercises c and d.

C: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6

D: 1b   2c    3b    4a

If you want to answer exercise E, you can do it in the comments section.