UNIT 11 REVIEW AND

MEMORY BOOSTER
Grammar
1 Rewrite the direct speech as reported speech.
1 ‘I want to fly in space.’
He said he _____________________________________________.
wanted to fly in space
2 ‘I’m driving home.’
She said she ____________________________________________.
was driving home
3 ‘We visited the pyramid in Giza.’
They said they __________________________________________.
’d visited the pyramid in Giza
4 ‘He’s gone to the museum.’
You said he ____________________________________________.
’d gone to the museum
5 ‘One day I’ll go on holiday to Rome.’
Matt said one day he ____________________________________.
’d go on holiday to Rome

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2 Complete the sentences with say or tell.
1 I _________
told him to hurry up!
2 Did she _________
say what time she was coming?
3 Don’t _________
tell me the answer. I’ll work it out.
4 Who _________
said we’d find the tomb here?
5 Did the archaeologist _________
say who built this house?
6 Sarah _________
said she’d be a bit late.

3 Work in pairs. Tell your partner:

• something about the story of this bottle
• something the news reader on the TV or radio said this morning.
• something your English teacher told you.
EXAMPLE ANSWER
A fishing captain found the one-hundred year old bottle in his net. It was part of
an experiment. Scientists wanted to learn about the movement of water so they
threw 1,900 bottles (with a message) into the sea. It’s the oldest message in a
bottle ever found.

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Vocabulary
4 Choose the correct option.

In 2010, everyone was talking 1 on / about a new video game called Angry
Birds. Everyone was playing 2 in it / it on their mobile phones because –
unlike other types of video games – you didn’t have to spend much money
3 at / on the app and you could take it 4 with / on you everywhere. For a few
months, it was the most popular video game in the world. There were even
Angry Birds toys and clothes, TV shows and adverts. There is even an Angry
Bird park in Finland where you can play 5 for / against other people using
large Angry Birds.

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5 Complete the text with these words.

The Inca civilisation was the largest civilisation of South America in the 13th
and 14th century. Today, you can visit the huge pyramids that the Incas built,
and 1 _______________
archaeologists are still finding objects such as 2 _______________
pots
for cooking or 3 _______________
paintings showing pictures from their past. For
example, the small 4 _______________
statue on the left of the photo is a llama. It
was found in the 5 _______________
tomb of an important person from an
ancient Inca city.

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Real life
6 Match the beginnings of the sentences (1–7) with the endings (a–g).
c 1 Good morning everyone ________ a you a bit about the city of Pisa.
e 2 Today I’d like to talk ________ b of my talk.
a 3 Let me begin by telling ________ c and thank you for coming.
f 4 So, that’s everything I wanted to d are there any questions?
________ e about my visit to Italy.
g 5 Now, let’s look ________ f say about Pisa.
b 6 That’s the end ________ g at my next stop which was the
d7 But before I finish, ________ city of Florence.

7 Work in pairs. Look at the sentence beginnings (1–7) in Exercise 6. Complete

the sentences to make your own presentation.
Students’ own answers

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