Focus 4 Unit 1

Complete the sentences with the missing words. Some letters are given.

1 I used to study French but I’ve had a long break so I’m taking lessons to s _ _ _ _ e _         my skills.

2 David has a p _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ h _ _              memory. He only has to see something once and he remembers it.

3 Mr Brown is quite l _ _ i _ _ _         . I’m sure he won’t mind if you hand in your homework tomorrow.

4 The house next to ours was s _ _ _ _ _        by lightning. There was a big fire but no one was hurt.

5 Julia is extremely b _ _ i _ _.        She never has to work very hard to get good grades.

Complete the sentences with one word in each gap.

When I was a teenager, my parents were always complaining about how long I slept. They          even let me sleep in at the weekends because they wanted me to maintain a steady sleeping routine! I      to get very angry at them for waking me up too early but then, slowly, I got used to it. Nowadays I      normally get up around sunrise and I really enjoy it. A good friend of mine    always complaining she can get nothing done at the weekends because the day is short. Well, no wonder, she never gets up before noon! I didn’t     to appreciate my parents’ strict rules about sleep but I am now grateful to them.

Match the verbs in A with the nouns in B. Then complete the sentences. You may need to change the form of the verbs. There is one extra verb.

0 Can you jog my memory what the homework is?

1 He’s going to       his              on Ancient Greece.

2 I don’t               to study for the exam, it’s an easy subject.

3 I’ve        my         but I can’t remember what her name is.

4 After three hours of trying to find a solution, Jenny                 and solved the problem.

5 It was at least five minutes before I                         when the ball hit me on the head.