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4 The average lifetime /lifespan of a elegant is longer 1open. an email /an attachment/an avatar
4 The London skyline is er incredible site / sight to see a passwordla site/a file
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4 download an app/a podcast/ a password
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4 Choose the correct answers.

VGo Helps Students Go to School


Sometimes, students who have serious health problems are mnade (1) stay /
at home for long periods, but they can still participate in to stay
robot, which (2) controls /is controlled by them from home. classes by using a VGo
Lyndon Baty had an illness that prevented himn from being at High-school student
own VGo robot. He could see and hear school, so he had his
everything that was going on in the
classroom, and this technology also let him (3) interact / to interact with his
classmates, talk to his teacher and follow the lessons. Most importantly it made him
(4) feel / to feel less lonely and isolated. His robot, which was (5)
around the school as the Baty Bot, had no arms, so Lyndon had to knowing
get other
/ known
(6) to open / opened doors for it as it moved from classroom to
students
Another student who had a VGo robot was
classroom.
eight-year-old Lexie Kinder. She had
her mum (7) to make / make clothes for her VGo robot and (8) to dress/
dress i
in a ballet skirt! Although teachers are not always sure how other
students
(9) will receive/ will be received having a robot as a classmate, VGos
(10) are allowing /are being allowed into more and more schools these days.
Baty Bot n
the classroom

5 Read the situations. Complete the sentences using make or let, active or
passive, to express what is happening.
1. My room was very messy. My mother told me to clean it up
My mother made me clean up my room
4. | broke my neighbour's window. I had to repair it.
was made to repair my window
2. Does your sister have your permission to use your phone?
Do you 5. Iwanted to borrow the car. My parents refused.
My parents
3. The workers wanted to leave at noon, They had to stay until 5 pm.
They we’re made to stay until 5 pm

PUTTING IT TOGETHER

6 Complete the second sentence so that it has asimilar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given.
Use between two and five words, including the word given.
1 How much did vou pay for a year's subscription to the magazine? SUBSCRIBE
How much did it.. cost you to subscribe to the magazine for a year?
2 it was wrong to close the swimming pool over the sumner, SHOULD
The swinming pool should have been opened over the surnmer.

3. After thinking about it, we deciced to buy a new car. REACHED


After thinking about it, we. reached the conclusion that we should buy a new car.
4 Tom's qlasses are still broken. HAD
Tom hasn’t has his glasses fixed yet.
5. Jade is expectedi to becone a professional musician one day END
Everyone expects that Jade will end as a professional musician.
6 The boys have to clean the grafiti off the wall. MADE
are being made
The boys .the graffiti off the wall.
make
Passive Review; The Causative; let /
AYMAR:
passive.
sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets, active or
epiere the (publish) early next year. At the moment
1. The author's new novel was published
the book cover is still designed
(still / design).
heavy rain
2. The parade (cancel) yesterday because of the
was canceled weekend instead.
It is going to be holded (be going to / hold) next
was cleaned (clean).
3. When the guests arrived at the hotel, their room.
should has to do (should have / do) before they arrived.
problems which
4. Steps must has to take (must / take) to solve the
faces (face) by our oceans
surfers
5. Great white sharks was known
. e (know) to swim in these waters. Two
had been attacked (attack) so far this year.
6. Mia has supposed (suppose) to be at the office at 8 o'clock yesterday morning.
but she won’t arrive (not arrive) until 9.30!
was recently discovered .(recently / discover).
7. It says on this website that a new galaxy...
It is located (locate) about 30 billion light years away.
2 Comnplete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets, active or passive.

PUTTING GAME TECHNOLOGY TO USE


....gain) a loyal following since it
The video game Minecraft (1 )
...trelease) in 2011. In fact, over 200 million copies of the game
3) (sell) so far, and it (4). (win)
numerous awvards,
Players of Minecraft use blocks to create buildings and landscapes in an imaginary world. After
the game came out, the creators (5) (ask) to work on a project to give
young people a chance to design buildings and public areas, such as parks, in their own
neighbourhoods. The Minccraft technology (6) (consider)
Qutstanding because it (allow) people with no background in
(orhoods,
architecture to redesign their
ideas (8)
And this is not just a game, because some of the
(might / use) to make changes in their towns.
Another project, called Block by Block, (9) . (recently I launch) in
Nairobi, Kenya. Residents from one of thepoorer neighbourhoods (10).
(encourage) to use the Minecraft technology to improve their part of the city. Some of the
moncy (11) .(provide) by the company which produces Minecraft.

3 Complete the mini-dialogues with the words in brackets.


1, A: Guess what! I'm ......tomorrow! (get / a tattoo / do)
B: You should you choose a design. (get 1 Jason / help)
2. A: Iwill probably .bya wedding planner. (have / the wedding / organise)
B: That'll be expensive, but it's easier to
all the arrangements for you.
(have / sorneone else /make)
3. A: My older brother went to the hairdresser and .. ..... yesterday! (have/
all his hair / shave off)
B: Wel, make sure you a hat in the summer or hi_ head will get burnt
(get /him /wear)
4. A: Why are you ? (get / your photograph / take)
B: Ineed to apply for a new passport. I .last week (had /my old one / sted
5. A: VWhy does Mark him up at six every morning? (get / you / wake)
B: Oh, the coach for training before school eveny day, (make / him / comel

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