Unit1 Inventions
Unit1 Inventions
Unit1 Inventions
Grammar 1
Unit 1 The spirit of
invention Post simple, present perfect simple
ond present perfect continuous
Vocabulary 1
1 1 have developed
1 1 simple 2 tested
2 complex 3 have also tested
3 non-essential 4 have shown
4 essential 5 became
5 old-fashioned 6 has taken
6 modern
7 low-cost 2 1 Who developed a new way to
purify water?
8 expensive Scientists in California.
9 practical
2 Where did they test the device last
1O handy year?
2 1 cheap 5 out-of-date On the Virgin Islands.
2 complex 6 essential 3 Where else did they test the device?
3 modern 7 expensive In India.
4 superfluous 4 What did the results show?
3 1 old- 2 Hi- 3 Low- 4 im They showed that this system
5 in 6 non- can eliminate the risk of cholera,
4 Down typhoid and dysentery.
5 When did scientists first discover
1 low-tech
the purifying quality of light?
2 superfluous In the 1990s.
3 cheap
4 out-of-date 6 How long did it take to develop a
low-cost UV light device?
6 wind-up More than 15 years.
Across
3 1 already 5 for
1 low-cost
2 just 6 ever
3 complex 3 yet 7 never
5 energy 4 since
7 fashioned
8 simple 4 1 have been asking
2 have made
Reading 3 has recently launched
1 b 4 have been offering
21b 2c 3d 4a 5 have been using
6 have not been using
3 1 False:'you needn't spend years on 7 has promised
development and research or doing 8 have already introduced
expensive tests'.
2 False:'it was difficultto believethat Post simple, post perfect simple ond
no-one had thought of it before'. postperfectconUnuous
3 False:'once you've got your idea, 5 1 was, thought
you need to patent it/. 2 had been snowing, had to
4 False:'do we reallyneed automatic 3 had been watching, came
egg-warmers, or electricalcan- 4 had been working, gave
openers?' 5 saw
5 True:'people liketo be a little 6 pulled, discovered, had been
frivolouswith their Christmas
driving
presents'.
6 1 had been travelling
6 True:'you may not become rich 2 came
overnight'.
3 had been trying
4 1 Becauseit improved the driver's 4 was considering
visionduring bad weather. 5 went
2 To make sure that no-one steals it
6 had been using
from you. 7 decided
3 No. Some of them are frivolousand
8 went
don't solveany problems.
4 Student/s own answer 7 Where had TomAdams been
travelling?
5 1 ingenious 4 prototype
2 housewife 5 sit back He had been travelling in Mexico.
2 What had Adams been trying to
3 patent 6 wacky become?
He had been trying to become an
inventor.
d
WORKBOOK ANSWER KEY
3 What did he hear in a shop? He Vocabulary 2 Writing a description of an
heard a girl ask for chicle. Gerunds and intinitives object
4 What had the natives of Mexico
1 1 to find 6 to cultivate 1 The bicyclecan help us combat
been using as a chewing gum?
2 to create 7 to grow problems such as trafficcongestion
They had been using chicle.
3 providing 8 wasting and obesity. It can also help us fight
5 What had Adams been thinking of climate change.
doing? 4 Using 9 burning
5 to obtain 2 Cars have become an essential part
He had been thinking of giving it all
up. 2 1 Growingfood crops with the of everydaylifein our modernsociety.
seawater greenhouse is a lot They are certainly useful,but they are
Error correction also a seriousproblem. They crowd
cheaper.
1 Humans have been coming up with 2 The developers hope to installthe the congestedstreets of our city
great ideas for thousands of years. greenhouses in areas near the sea. centres. They pollute the air in our
2 Our history has been full of discoveries 3 The greenhouse uses electrical countryside and they produce huge
since we first learned how to make fire. quantities of harmfulgreenhouse
light to transform fresh water into
3 The discovery of the American seawater. gases.
continent was an important moment in 4 The Seawater Greenhouse is a 3
European history. concept that combines natural Cause Effect
4 A retired naval officer has recently processes of obtaining fresh water.
claimed that the Chinese were the first because consequently
to cross the Atlantic Ocean. 3 1 True:'a source of low-cost,fresh sinceas so