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    Period 2 - Week 4 - Vocabulary Exercise 1

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    This document contains vocabulary practice materials from an intermediate English course on making connections. It includes two exercises to practice vocabulary words in context. The first passage is about transportation problems in large cities like Istanbul due to increasing population and vehicles. It discusses efforts to improve public transportation but issues with limited road capacity. The second exercise fills in blanks with words related to driving challenges, concentration, speed limits, safety campaigns, convenience, project completion, and interesting results.

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    Period 2 - Week 4 - Vocabulary Exercise 1

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    This document contains vocabulary practice materials from an intermediate English course on making connections. It includes two exercises to practice vocabulary words in context. The first passage is about transportation problems in large cities like Istanbul due to increasing population and vehicles. It discusses efforts to improve public transportation but issues with limited road capacity. The second exercise fills in blanks with words related to driving challenges, concentration, speed limits, safety campaigns, convenience, project completion, and interesting results.

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    This document contains vocabulary practice materials from an intermediate English course on making connections. It includes two exercises to practice vocabulary words in context. The first passage is about transportation problems in large cities like Istanbul due to increasing population and vehicles. It discusses efforts to improve public transportation but issues with limited road capacity. The second exercise fills in blanks with words related to driving challenges, concentration, speed limits, safety campaigns, convenience, project completion, and interesting results.

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    Period 2 - Week 4 - Vocabulary Exercise 1

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    This document contains vocabulary practice materials from an intermediate English course on making connections. It includes two exercises to practice vocabulary words in context. The first passage is about transportation problems in large cities like Istanbul due to increasing population and vehicles. It discusses efforts to improve public transportation but issues with limited road capacity. The second exercise fills in blanks with words related to driving challenges, concentration, speed limits, safety campaigns, convenience, project completion, and interesting results.

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    2018-2019 ACADEMIC YEAR – PERIOD 2

    INTERMEDIATE - MAKING CONNECTIONS 2


    VOCABULARY PRACTICE MATERIALS

    EXERCISE 1: Fill in the gaps with suitable words from the box. There are extra words.
    convinces public limits speed report
    expand urban requires links prevent

    Transportation is a serious problem in many cities. Cities that have such problems make great
    efforts to provide good (1) _____________________ transport, but extremely crowded roads
    remain an important issue. Istanbul is a good example of cities where such (2) _______________
    problems occur due to big city life requirements. These days, the population of Istanbul and number
    of vehicle owners are pushing the (3) ______________________, or its capacity. New skyscrapers
    are rising in the city center, not to mention new shopping centers and malls going up everywhere.
    However, as opposed to the development of vehicles and buildings the (4) ____________________
    of transportation development is quite low. The solution to this serious problem in Istanbul
    (5) ___________________ careful planning and new substructure. Only with careful planning and
    new substructure can this problem be solved. This has also been mentioned in a recent
    (6) _________________ by International Passenger Transportation Association. This document
    also provides some suggestions in order to help people (7) ____________________ stress-related
    problems before they occur.

    EXERCISE 2: Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words. Be careful with spelling.
    8. The road was ____________________ for even the most experienced drivers. It suddenly gets
    narrow and the turns are quite sharp. (CHALLENGE)
    9. Texting while driving is highly dangerous because you can easily lose your
    ____________________ and cause an accident. (CONCENTRATE)
    10. At Bilkent University, there is a 50 mph speed ____________________ on campus which aims
    to reduce the number of incidents. (RESTRICT)
    11. Lower speed limits are part of a new road ____________________ campaign that aims to make
    drivers feel secure. (SAFE)
    12. Most of us like the ____________________ of going to work by our private cars. It helps us to
    save time and energy. (CONVENIENT)
    13. After the ____________________ of the bridge, traffic congestion in that area is expected to
    relieve. The bridge will be finished by the end of the year according to the plan. (COMPLETE)
    14. It will be ____________________ to see what happens when the results of the election are
    announced as they might radically change the share of the seats in the parliament. (INTEREST)
    1
    ANSWER KEY

    EXERCISE 1:
    1. PUBLIC
    2. URBAN
    3. LIMITS
    4. SPEED
    5. REQUIRES
    6. REPORT
    7. PREVENT

    EXERCISE 2:
    8. CHALLENGING
    9. CONCENTRATION
    10. RESTRICTION
    11. SAFETY
    12. CONVENIENCE
    13. COMPLETION
    14. INTERESTING

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