Focus 2 Unit 2

Complete the sentences with the missing words. The first letters are given.

1 John wants to d          music to his computer.

2 I’d like to buy a computer: not a laptop, but a d         computer.

3 Last week I forgot my p          and couldn’t read my emails.

4 How often do you u        your Facebook profile?

5 I don’t watch videos on my smartphone because the s        is so small.

6 Have you ever sent a text m         to the wrong person?

Complete the sentences with the following words. There are two extra words.

1 The             [boiling, average, biologist, environment, Chemistry, data, recorded, warming] temperature in Paris in July is 24^oC.

2 I’m not going outside today – it’s             [average, warming, boiling, Chemistry, recorded, biologist, date, environment] and I don’t like hot weather.

3 Because of global             [average, environment, recorded, warming, boiling, biologist, Chemistry, data], temperatures around the world are increasing.

4 Pam is not sure if she prefers to study Physics or             [recorded, warming, environment, boiling, data, Chemistry, average, biologist]

5 Is there anything else people can do to protect the             [environment, data, biologist, Chemistry, average, boiling, warming, recorded]?

6 He became a marine             [boiling, data, biologist, average, Chemistry, environment, recorded, warming] so that he could study fish.

Match the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets (Past Simple or Past Continuous).

Choose the correct option.

1) I                [used worked, used to work, used to worked] (work) in the Twin Towers.

2)                       [Did you used to left, Did you used to leave, Did you use to leave] (leave) the classroom at 4:00 pm?

3) She               [used to spend, used to spent, used spent] (spend) time in the supermarket.

4) We                       [usedn't to play, didn't use to play, didn't used to played] (not / play) outside.

5) He                      [didn't use to wrote, didn't used to write, didn't use to write] (not /write) five stories a day.

6)                     [Did she used to eat, Did she used to ate, Did she use to eat] (She / eat) three times a day?

Use of English: choose the correct option to complete the text.

At the end of 2011, six brave            [astronauts, spacecraft, chemicals] were warmly greeted by their friends and family members       [until, when, while] they got home after one and a half years. Although they spent more than eighteen months on board, they never left the Earth. Actually, they were inside a capsule near Moscow, Russia. The men were part of an             [experiment, evidence, environment] to see how the human body and mind react to long periods of isolation. They               [used to spend, have spent, spent] 500 days in conditions similar to those on a trip to Mars.            [By, During, As soon as] this time they played games, exercised, socialised and did tests. People at mission control               [have observed, observed, observe] their behaviour, as well as the effect that low gravity and less food had on them. Scientists hope that the results of this analysis will help them find a solution to problems common for space travel.