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Fourth Edition
ISBN 978-0-521-14075-1Fourth Edition
(With Removable Key)
This book for upper-intermediate students provides extensive guidance and practice in fi ve crucial areas:
• Grammar. • Phrasal verbs. • Vocabulary. • Word study. • Writing.
It can be used to supplement any upper-intermediate coursebook and is suitable for students preparing for the Cambridge FCE or IGCSE in English as a Second Language examinations.
Key features include:
• 77 user-friendly units and eight tests. • Wide variety of challenging exercises.
• Regular recycling of grammar and vocabulary. • Model compositions for writing tasks.
• Practice in all task types for FCE Papers 2 and 3.
• Recommended by Cambridge International Examinations
for IGCSE English as a Second Language preparation. • Ideal material for classroom use or self-study.
• Removable answer key.
Clare West has taught in the UK and overseas for many years and
is an established author.
Clare West
Recycling Your English, with removable Key 978-0-521-14075-1 Recycling Elementary English 978-0-521-14078-2 Recycling Elementary English, with Key 978-0-521-14079-9 Recycling Intermediate English, with removable Key 978-0-521-14076-8 Recycling Advanced English, with removable Key 978-0-521-14073-7
Recycling
Your
English
Clare West
Fourth
Edition
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 6
SECTION 1 GRAMMAR
1 Present simple and present continuous 8 2 Past simple and present perfect 10 3 Past simple and past continuous 12 4 Past simple and past perfect 13 5 RECYCLING 14 6 Conditionals 16 7 Passives 18 8 Supposition 20 9 Question tags 21 10 RECYCLING 22 11 Reported speech 24 12 I wish and If only 26 13 The future 28 14 Future continuous and future perfect 29 15 RECYCLING 30 16 Prepositions 32 17 Comparatives and superlatives 34 18 Have something done 36 19 Definite and indefinite articles 37 20 RECYCLING 38 21 Difficult verbs 40 22 Relative pronouns 42 23 Quantifiers 44 24 Gerund and infinitive 46 25 RECYCLING 48 26 Linking words 50 27 Modal verbs 52 28 Adjectives 54 29 Adverbs 55 30 RECYCLING 56
SECTION 2 PHRASAL VERBS
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34 Phrasal verbs with bring 61 35 Phrasal verbs with set, stand and run 62 36 RECYCLING 63 37 Phrasal verbs with come 65 38 Phrasal verbs with go 66 39 Phrasal verbs with get 67 40 Phrasal verbs with turn 68 41 Phrasal verbs with see, give and break 69 42 RECYCLING 70
SECTION 3 VOCABULARY
43 Computers and the internet 72
44 Sport 74
45 Books and reading 75
46 Work 76
47 Education 77 48 RECYCLING 78 49 The environment 80 50 Crime and punishment 81 51 Health and fitness 82 52 Travel and holidays 83 53 Science and technology 84 54 RECYCLING 85 55 Food and drink 87 56 People and lifestyles 88 57 Relationships 89 58 Entertainment and the media 90 59 Money and shopping 91 60 RECYCLING 92
SECTION 4 WORD STUDY
61 Word building 94 62 Headline language 96 63 Idioms 98 64 Collocations 100 65 Colloquial language 102 66 RECYCLING 104
SECTION 5 WRITING
67 Informal letters and emails 106 68 Formal letters 108 69 Replying to emails and letters 110 70 Articles 114 71 Reports 116 72 Reviews 118 73 Short stories 120 74 Essays 122 75 Set texts 124 76 Spelling 126 77 Editing and checking 128
TESTS Test 1 130 Test 2 132 Test 3 134 Test 4 136 Test 5 138 Test 6 140 Test 7 142 Test 8 144 IRREGULAR VERBS 146 KEY (removable) 147 Clare West Table of Contents More information
UNIT 1
1 He always _________ chocolate after lunch. (eat) 2 I can’t come. I _________ my mother. (help)
3 They _________ hard enough at present. (not / study) 4 They often _________ coffee in the evenings. (drink) 5 Clara occasionally _________ to the theatre. (go) 6 Yukiko _________ a bath now. (have)
7 We _________ a cake at the moment. (make) 8 I never _________ cigarettes. (smoke) 9 She _________ her hair twice a week. (wash) 10 Lisa _________ her sister’s car today. (drive) 11 The Amazon _________ into the Atlantic. (flow) 12 Many birds _________ south for the winter. (fly)
1 You / speak / Greek? ____________________________________________ 2 Bill / know / Mr Jameson? _______________________________________ 3 We / not live / in a large house. __________________________________ 4 Alexander / not go / to the beach very often. ______________________ 5 I / have to / attend the ceremony? ________________________________ 6 Jane / watch / television at the moment? __________________________ 7 Costas / not work / in a bank. ___________________________________ 8 The children / not listen / to their mother now. ____________________ 9 Theo / live / in New York? ________________________________________ 10 William / study / at the moment?__________________________________ 11 Where / you / usually spend / your holidays? _______________________ 12 I / not earn much money at present. ______________________________
A Complete the sentences,
using the present simple or the present continuous.
B Write full sentences using
the information given. EXAMPLE: You / enjoy / the
party? Are you enjoying
the party?
Present simple and present continuous
The present simple is used to talk abouta actions done regularly or frequently, often with adverbs like never, seldom, occasionally, sometimes, often, usually and always:
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b facts that are always or usually true:
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The present continuous is used to talk about things that are happening now, at the
moment of speaking, often with adverbs like now, at the moment, at present,
today, this week, etc:
C Complete the sentences,
using the correct present tense of the verbs in brackets.
D Complete the sentences,
using the correct present tense of the verbs in brackets.
1 A famous actress _________ in a play at the local theatre. (appear) 2 I’m sure she _________ tea to coffee. (prefer)
3 His story _________ to be true. (appear)
4 George _________ of visiting Turkey this summer. (think) 5 Rupert says the book _________ to him. (belong)
6 The director _________ that would be a mistake. (believe) 7 Louisa _________ having supper late. (hate)
8 This pasta _________ simply delicious. (taste)
9 There _________ to be something wrong with the photocopier. (seem) 10 Now I _________ what the teacher _________ . (understand, mean) 11 You’d better not drink that milk. It _________ bad. (smell)
12 Frank _________ me a lot of money! (owe)
1 He usually _________ very hard, but he _________ at all today because it’s a holiday. (work, not / work)
2 Look! That man _________ out of the bank! And he _________ a large bag full of money! (run, carry)
3 I don’t mind babysitting for you. Your baby never _________. (cry) 4 Every time he _________ a photo, his hand _________, and his photos
never _________ good. (take, shake, look)
5 ‘Can you come out for a drink with us later?’ ‘Sorry, I _________ Liza with her work, and it’ll take us hours to finish it.’ (help)
6 She usually _________ a BMW, but today she _________ her husband’s Volvo. (drive)
7 ‘Where do you live?’ ‘Normally I _________ in Paris with my parents, but at the moment I _________ in London, so I _________ with an English family.’ (live, study, live)
8 I know you _________ because you _________ out of the window! (not / listen, look)
9 Julia _________ five languages fluently, and at the moment she _________ as a translator. (speak, work)
10 I _________ three pullovers in winter because I always _________ cold.
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NIT1
The following verbs do not normally take the continuous form:
s
NEED WISH
The following verbs can be used in the simple or continuous form but with different meanings:
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