UNIT 3 REVIEW AND

MEMORY BOOSTER
Grammar
1 Complete the article with the correct form of the adjectives.
Santiago is the 1 ______________
largest (large) city in Chile. It has a population of
five million people and it’s the 2 ______________
busiest (busy) city in the country.
It has some of the 3 ______________
most beautiful (beautiful) buildings in the world, but
in the past, it was the 4 ______________
most polluted (polluted) city in Chile. Its streets
weren’t as 5 ______________
clean (clean) as they are today.
Nowadays, public transport around the city is much 6 ______________
better
(good) and the city centre isn’t as 7 ______________
noisy (noisy). Cycling is also
a lot 8 ______________
more popular (popular) these days because there are new cycle
paths and people can use electric bikes.

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2 Work in pairs. Make four sentences to compare your town or city to
Santiago. Talk about:
• size and population
• buildings and streets
• traffic and public transport
• walking and cycling

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Vocabulary
3 Match words from A with words from B to make compound nouns. Then
complete the sentences with the compound nouns.

1 There’s a __________
traffic __________
jam on the motorway. Nothing’s moving.
2 __________
Rush __________
hour starts at about seven in the morning.
3 Wait at the __________
bus __________
stop and the number 39 comes every
twenty minutes.
4 Slow down! The __________
speed __________
limit is only 30 kilometres an hour
on these roads.
5 The __________
city __________
centre is closed to cars on Sundays.

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4 Which words can follow the words in CAPITAL letters? Cross out the incorrect
word.

1 GO BY: car, foot, plane, bicycle

2 GO ON: a taxi, a ship, foot, a ferry
3 CATCH: a train, a plane, a taxi, a bus
4 DROP OFF: your shopping, your children, the underground

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5 Work in pairs. Look at the photos (a–e) and answer the questions (1–7). Give
reasons.
1 Which types of transport are
slow but reliable?
2 Which are comfortable and
convenient?
3 Which are the cheapest?
4 Which goes the furthest in a
short time?
5 Which lands at a gate?
6 Which stops at a rank?
7 Which are good for sightseeing
in a city? EXAMPLE ANSWERS
1 c and e 2 a and f 3 b and c
4 d 5 d 6 b 7 a and c

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Real life
6 Complete the conversation at a train station with these words.

A: I’d like a __________

ticket to Glasgow.
B: __________
Single or return?
A: __________,
Return please.
B: That’s twenty-one pounds fifty. Do you want a __________?
receipt
A: Yes, please. Which __________
platform is it?
B: Three.

7 Work in pairs. Write a similar conversation between two people at an

airport. Use these phrases.

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