Planet Earth Focus 3 - U 5.1

Choose the correct answer.

1. The beach in front of our holiday home is almost completely under water at high       [tide, peak, level, sea].

2. I love exploring second-hand shops because I never know what cool things I might             [find out, come along, come across, get along].

3. This bridge is so old that they are going to have to            [strengthen, lengthen, deepen, broaden] the structure so that it doesn’t fall down.

4. When the climbers reached the mountain        [range, peak, height, bed] they put up a flag so others could see they had been there.

Choose the correct answer.

1. The storm             [turned up, stirred up, calmed down, took up] the water in the bay so that it looked brown and dirty.

2. It was such a              [rough, slow-moving, strong, fast-flowing] sea that everyone on the ship got seasick.

3. When the fisherman woke up from a nap, he realised that the                [tidal wave, strong current, calm sea, winding river] had carried his small boat far away from the beach.

4. Experts say that many types of plants and animals will           [die out, go off, move away, leave out] as the earth becomes warmer.

5. Is it true that Indonesia is        [made, formed, done, put up] of nearly 15,000 islands?

Match the sentences with the words.