FOCUS REVIEW 1 (Focus 2)

VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

1. Complete the sentences with personality adjectives.

Shona never smiles and is always depressed. She’s a really              [generous, mean, responsible, outgoing, cheerful, selfish, sensible, hard-working, lazy, miserable] person.

Tim looks after his younger brother when their parents are out. He’s so              [generous, mean, responsible, outgoing, cheerful, selfish, sensible, hard-working, lazy, miserable] .

Zina is such a              [generous, mean, responsible, outgoing, cheerful, selfish, sensible, hard-working, lazy, miserable] girl. She cares only about herself.

Neil’s never made a silly decision. He’s such a              [generous, mean, responsible, outgoing, cheerful, selfish, sensible, hard-working, lazy, miserable] boy.

My grandparents often give me money for the cinema or CDs. They‘re so              [generous, mean, responsible, outgoing, cheerful, selfish, sensible, hard-working, lazy, miserable] .

Has Marion always been so l              [generous, mean, responsible, outgoing, cheerful, selfish, sensible, hard-working, lazy, miserable] ? She always stays in bed until midday!

2. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in capitals.

My brothers are very        . They play sports every day! ACT

Gino makes new friends easily. He’s so               . COMMUNICATE

Carla is sometimes           , so I don’t believe in her stories. HONEST

Volunteers work in different conditions, so they must be           to changing situations. ADAPT

Leslie is such an             girl. She comes up with stories and writes songs. IMAGINE

A lot of people decided to help this poor family after that           TV programme. INSPIRE

3. Complete the questions with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

     you ever     any problems with your smartphone? (have)

What      your new friend           ? (look like)

Who          my tablet? It’s not on my desk. (use)

   your grandparents      listening to heavy metal? (like)

What    Amy          at the moment? Is it a TV show? (watch)

Who             your dog when you’re on holiday? (look after)

4. Use the prompts to write sentences.

My sister / avoid / buy / second-hand clothes.

you / ever / refuse / help / your friend?

We / not need / wear / a school uniform.

They / not afford / buy / a new laptop.

I / always / want / dance / in a folk group.

you / spend / a long time / study / when you get home from school?

USE OF ENGLISH

5. Choose the correct answer.

Johann is            [so shy, such shy, such a shy] boy that he has never been to a school party

                    [Who helps Mary, Who is helping Mary, Who does help Mary]with the project today?

X: I don’t enjoy shopping for clothes.

Y:              [Me too., Me neither., Not me.]

Sally is                     [such an adventurous, such adventurous, so adventurous]. She’s been to Thailand twice.

X: My older sister is a charity worker.

Y:           [Is she?, Does she?, Has she?]

6. Choose the answer that is closest in meaning to the underlined words.

Agnes is so friendly and sociable.

What is she like?

Jasper can’t stand buying unimportant things.

Their grandmother is so caring.

Drake is crazy about sports cars.

LISTENING

7. Listen to a conversation with Tony, who has taken part in an experiment. Then complete the summary with the missing information. Do not use more than three words in each gap. Listen to the recording twice.

Today’s guest of the weekly programme is Tony Miller, who studies            in Zurich. Tony volunteered to help a team of                       to do a unique experiment. In the experiment, fifty participants received an amount of money and were divided into two groups. People in Group 1 could only spend the money on themselves, while people in Group 2 – on any                    . During the experiment, the researchers observed those parts of participants'        which are responsible for making decisions and feelings. Before, during and after the experiment, the participants from both groups were asked how happy they were. The results of the experiment show that when people do not share what they have with others, they feel                 generous people.

READING

Preparation task

Match the definitions with the vocabulary.

Reading text:

Read an article about how people at different ages use computers and smartphones to practise and improve your reading skills.

Digital habits across generations

Today's grandparents are joining their grandchildren on social media, but the different generations' online habits couldn't be more different. In the UK the over-55s are joining Facebook in increasing numbers, meaning that they will soon be the site's second biggest user group, with 3.5 million users aged 55–64 and 2.9 million over-65s.

Sheila, aged 59, says, 'I joined to see what my grandchildren are doing, as my daughter posts videos and photos of them. It's a much better way to see what they're doing than waiting for letters and photos in the post. That's how we did it when I was a child, but I think I'm lucky I get to see so much more of their lives than my grandparents did.'

Ironically, Sheila's grandchildren are less likely to use Facebook themselves. Children under 17 in the UK are leaving the site – only 2.2 million users are under 17 – but they're not going far from their smartphones. Chloe, aged 15, even sleeps with her phone. 'It's my alarm clock so I have to,' she says. 'I look at it before I go to sleep and as soon as I wake up.'

Unlike her grandmother's generation, Chloe's age group is spending so much time on their phones at home that they are missing out on spending time with their friends in real life. Sheila, on the other hand, has made contact with old friends from school she hasn't heard from in forty years. 'We use Facebook to arrange to meet all over the country,' she says. 'It's changed my social life completely.'

Teenagers might have their parents to thank for their smartphone and social media addiction as their parents were the early adopters of the smartphone. Peter, 38 and father of two teenagers, reports that he used to be on his phone or laptop constantly. 'I was always connected and I felt like I was always working,' he says. 'How could I tell my kids to get off their phones if I was always in front of a screen myself?' So, in the evenings and at weekends, he takes his SIM card out of his smartphone and puts it into an old-style mobile phone that can only make calls and send text messages. 'I'm not completely cut off from the world in case of emergencies, but the important thing is I'm setting a better example to my kids and spending more quality time with them.'

Is it only a matter of time until the generation above and below Peter catches up with the new trend for a less digital life?

Are the sentences true or false?

1. More people aged 55 or more use Facebook than people aged 65 or more.       [True, False]

2. Grandparents typically use Facebook less than their grandchildren.       [True, False]

3. Sheila feels grateful to social media.       [True, False]

4. Peter found his own smartphone use affected how he felt about how much his children used their phones.       [True, False]

5. Peter has changed how much he uses his phone during the working day.       [True, False]

6. Peter feels that the changes make him a better parent.       [True, False]

Write the phrases in the correct group.