The Giver

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Homework: Listening WB page 13

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The Giver - Lois Lowry

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Homework: Listening WB page 8

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Paper 4 - Speaking

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WORKBOOK UNIT 2 - ANSWERS

Complete the activities in your workbook and check your answers with this key. Any doubts? Please make comments below.

Grammar

1 A    2 due to    3 led to    4 with the result that    5 For this reason    6 with the intention of    7 in order not to

   B    2 so    3 because of    4 means    5 make sure   6  in case

Vocabulary

1 A    2 f    3 l    4 I    5 k    6 a   7 c   8 g   9 j   10 e   11 d   12 b

   B Students`own answers

2 A Adjectives: -ful, -ical, -ive, -less, -(u)al

       Nouns: -ance, -ence, -ity, -ment

       Verbs: -(e)m, -ify, -(is)e 

  B   Adjectives: central, considerable, harmful/harmless, inclusive, instinctive, intuitive,    national, progressive, purposeful, supportive
        Nouns:  complexity, disappointment, disturbance, occurrence, reference, relevance,      responsibility, scarcity
         Verbs: broaden, classify, harden, maximize, thicken

Writing   / Part 2

1 D (Introduction) 2 C (Strengths and weaknesses of the course) 3 E (Problems with the facilities) 4 A (Accommodation and food) 5 B (Conclusion and recommendation)

Unfortunetely Unfortunately; Improvement Improvement; cantean canteen; lernt learned/learnt; inconveniance inconvenience;  opportunity opportunity; frendly friendly; confiance confidence; writting writing; submiting submitting; participents participants; publisity publicity; laboratary laboratory; programes programs (computing_ program; television: programme (UK), program (US))

Reading and Use of English / Part 3

1 relevance   2 instinctive   3 maximise   4 effectively   5 responsibility   6 undoubtedly  
7 broaden   8 objective(s)

Reading and Use of English / Part 4

1 as not to wake   2 owing to the fact (that)   3 resulted in a (rapid) rise/increase   4 has not led to him/his being   5 need/have to thicken the sauce in   6 of the bridge was due to

Paper 4: Speaking. Part 2

http://issuu.com/iccic/docs/caeissuu/6

Useful Language

What strikes me about the first picture is the fact that...

This picture reminds me of...

Judging from the photograph, the children...

The man appears to be...

From what we can see here, he must...

There are many similarities...

Both pictures depict...

Both pictures are quite similar in that they show...

When you give it a closer look it reveals...

The first picture ... whereas the other picture ...

Another important difference is...

Picture ... doesn't show ... as clearly as ...

Picture ... attempts to ... but I think picture ... does this more effectively...

All pictures are interesting, but ... gives a stronger idea of...

It's difficult to tell from a photograph but this picture could have been taken in ...

I might be wrong, but I'd say that this picture ...

I would imagine/guess that this picture comes from ...

Picture ... is by far the best to show because ...

To me, picture ... is essential for this kind of publication.

I'm surprised there is no picture showing...

A picture of ... would get the message across more effectively.

The cover would be so much better if we had a picture of ...

So let's look at the alternatives ...

The name for this escapes me at present, but it's for/it's like ...

The name for it is on the tip of my tongue ...

Source: http://sciaga.pl/tekst/75447-76-useful_phrases_for_speaking_paper_fce_cae_cpe

Homework: Listening WB page 13

1. D
2. C
3. C
4. D
5. B
6. A

The Giver - Lois Lowry

Question 1 

The setting often helps create the mood in a novel. The mood is the feelings the reader gets from a passage. Even as early in The Giver as Chapters 1-2 the reader gets a feeling that Jonas’s community is very different from the average community of today. Fill in the chart below to help you organize your feelings about Jonas’s community. 

Source: http://www.bookunitsteacher.com/reading_giver/The%20Giver%20Comprehension%20Chapters%201%20and%202.pdf
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading17/giver.htm