ASSIGNMENT
Write a summary of the points made by Dr Adams in about 120 words. (NO MORE THAN 120 WORDS!!)
6.7 Revision and exam practice Advanced grammar
Rewrite each sentence using the words on the right, but without altering the word in any way.
1 Why on earth didn’t you tell me before? Why ever didn’t you tell nie before?
2 It is fortunate that our tickets arrived in time. luckily
3 We went on waiting until midnight for the plane to take off. still
4 Someone told me my flight was cancelled when I got to the airport. arriving 5 I had never flown before which was why I was very nervous. having 6 I only want to spend the rest of my life with you. what
7 They go on holiday in the winter and in the summer too. not only
8 We didn’t realise that our hotel was right beside the airport. little
9 I propose that we should send him a letter explaining the situation. be sent
10 We were amazed about his feelings of shyness. feel
11 She always gets the right answers. never
12 We wrote several letters of complaint before we got our money back. only
ever
** When doing this kind of exercise, first identify the structure that is required, then rewrite the sentence. Concentrate on conveying the meaning as well as getting the grammar right. Don’t change more than you have to.
6.8 Road safety
A Read this article through and then answer the questions below.
Reading & summary writing
The naked truth about road safety
VICTIMS of what a BBC television documentary last year called The Greatest Epidemic of Our Time are mostly male, mostly in the prime of life, 5 number some 6.000 a year in Britain, 50,000 in the USA, and worldwide more than quarter of a million. And it’s not Aids but road accidents. Some 10 million people have been is killed on the roads this century. We’re talking about something comparable only with natural disasters, famines, disease and war. As far as the citizens of the United States are concerned, cars 15 have killed far more people than wars. Since 1913 nearly 3 million of them have been killed on the roads. This is three times as many as the number killed in all wars that the USA has ever fought, 20 including two World Wars, Korea and Vietnam. Recent aircraft disasters have concentrated our minds on air safety.
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Yet the daily slaughter on the roads is largely ignored. Our society contemplates road
