UNIT 6.

ENVIRONMENT
GRAMMAR: EXTRAPOSITION

HOMEWORK (‘EXPOSITIVAS’)
- WEEK 1 (4 FEBRUARY)
Part 1

LISTENING & READING ACTIVITIES

• CLASS REVIEW
– Watch the following video again and go over the
vocabulary questions in the next slide

– Listening: Worst drought in 30 years hits South

Africa - BBC News
hit
 Unlock Reading and Writing Skills
• READING 2 (Page 111 & ff):
– Check your answers to exercises 3, 4 & 5 (answer
key included in following slides)
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5
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4
3
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4 6

3
2
5
Additional Vocabulary activity:
Match meanings and words from the text (Unlock Reading and Writing Skills page 111):

1. to use s.o or sth to provide the money or food that you a) Cattle
need to live
2. To cause s.o or sth to die
b) Cost-
3. Good value for the money paid
effective
4. High level of knowledge c) Crop
5. Prevent s.o doing sth easily d) Expertise
6. To try to persuade a politician, government or
e) Hamper
influential group that sth should (not) happen or that a
certain law should be changed f) harvest
7. The total amount collected of a plant grown in large g) Kill off
amounts
8. Cows and bulls kept for their milk or meat
h) Live off
9. To pick and collect plants to eat; or animals or water. i) To lobby
Additional Vocabulary activity: KEY

1. to use s.o or sth

to provide the money or food that you need
a) Cattle 1-h Live off
to live b) Cost- 2-g Kill off
2. To cause s.o or sth to die effective 3-c Cost-
3. Good value for the money paid c) Crop effective
4. High level of knowledge
d) Expertise 4-d Expertise
5. Prevent s.o doing sth easily
e) Hamper 5-e Hamper
6. To try to persuade a politician, government or
influential group that sth should (not) happen f) harvest 6-f To lobby
or that a certain law should be changed 7-g Crop
7. The total amount collected of a plant grown in
g) Kill off
8-a Cattle
large amounts h) Live off
9-i Harvest
8. Cows and bulls kept for their milk or meat i) To lobby
9. To pick and collect plants to eat; or animals or
water.
Part 2

GRAMMAR ACTIVITIES
 Extraposition (It is illegal to…)
• Introductory it is used: (A)
– To place long or complex elements at the end:
• It is illegal to drive without a licence.
– To focus attention on something by putting it at
the end:
• It is a miracle that he wasn’t hurt (Information
principle).
• It is + adjective/noun + that-clause/to-
infinitive clause/wh-clause/-ing clause as
subject: (A)
• It is clear why he didn’t resign.
• It is useless asking Sophie to help.
 Extraposition (It is illegal to…)
• Other combinations:
– When you have a headache, it helps to lie down.
– It shocked him to see her looking so ill.
– It takes a lot of effort to play the flute.
– It seems that she has lost her memory.
– It suddenly hit me that Sarah wanted to borrow money.
– It is said that he is a good person.
• Extraposition is NOT an alternative to a noun as
subject:
– Their success was unexpected.
– Not: It was unexpected their success.
Exercises (class review)
KEY
2. It was unsettling how he stared straight at me.
3. √
4. It is an advantage in the job to be a qualified driver.
5. √.
6. It is highly unusual to put carpet on walls.
7. √
8. It is hard finding a good plumber … (or It is hard to find …).
 Additional exercises
1
 KEY
Answerkey
2. … it astonished me to discover (that) she was also a successful novelist.
3. … it hurts/has hurt (me) to pedal my bicycle.
4. … it struck me (that) he was jealous
5. … it concerned/upset me to hear (that) he was offended.
6. … it didn’t bother him (that) everyone could see in
7. …it upset / concerned me (that) she hadn’t even told me when she was
going away
8. … it doesn’t do to criticise them too much
9. … it scared me to see (that) they were carrying knives
10. … it pays to plan the journey ahead