Language

a. Listen and repeat, paying attention to the underlined words. 

1. The sky today is clear and blue.

2. The speaker talked a lot about honesty.

3. The store on that corner sells local specialities.

b. Choose A, B, C, or D to show the word in each group with a different stress pattern.

1.           A. humorous                  B. tremendous              C. numerous                   D. generous

2.           A. national                      B. animal                       C. arrival                      D. typical

3.           A. festival                        B. cultural                      C. poisonous                D. ambitious

Complete the sentences with the words and phrases from the box.

1. We should recycle various _____ products instead of throwing them away.

2. Shopping centres attract a lot of _____ during the sales season.

3. Population growth is causing destruction of wildlife _____ throughout the world.

4. Luckily, my home town rarely suffers from _____, such as floods or storms.

5. Generally, you can’t _____ over prices of goods in supermarkets.

Use the correct forms of the words in brackets to complete the sentences.

1. The tsunami in Tonga was very (destroy) ______; hundreds of houses were swept away.

2. One (advantage) ______of shopping online is that you do not know exactly what you will get.

3. Endangered species are animals in the wild that face a high risk of (extinct) ______.

4. (Addict) ______shopping is a form of behaviour that makes shoppers buy many items they don’t need.

5. When a natural disaster happens, we must listen to (instruct) ______from local authorities.