Vocabulary & Grammar Module 2
Pre-Intermediate
VOCABULARY
5. Can you please me the phone?
A. Choose a, b or c.
I need to make a call.
1. I’m really for our holidays this summer. I 6. Some animals food for the winter.
can’t wait.
7. I don’t like the of peppers. I
a. excited b. bored c. exciting
never eat them.
2. This lemonade needs sugar. It’s .
a. salty b. sour c. spicy GRAMMAR
3. He had a(n) accident.
D. Complete the sentences with the Past
a. impossible b. entire c. severe
Progressive of the verbs in the box.
4. She was stung by a of bees.
a. swarm b. group c. bite feel study put rain
5. The cat was ; it ran away when it saw us.
a. frightening b. frightened c. upset 1. It all day yesterday.
6. We were watching TV when the lights 2. I for my exam at 10 o’clock
went out. last night.
a. luckily b. fortunately c. suddenly 3. She dizzy, so she sat down.
B. Write the words in the box in the correct 4. As she the flowers in the
category. vase, she saw the broken chair.
scuba diving bitter fresh amazed E. Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or
storm surprised sweet bored the Past Progressive of the verbs in brackets.
lightning cycling degrees hiking
1. As soon as I (finish)
exercising, I (feel) dizzy.
FEELINGS WEATHER
2. We (have) dinner when the
lights (go) out.
3. While he (return) home, he
(see) two men outside his house.
4. While I (walk) through
FOOD SPORTS
the market, the shop owners
(talk) to me.
F. Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or
the Present Perfect of the verbs in brackets.
C. Complete the sentences with the words in the box. 1. I (never / leave) my country
before.
description sunburn store broke into 2. Last summer I (go) to the
hand taste fainted
desert. It (be) fascinating.
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1. J osh went to the beach and came home with 3. A: Where is Mary?
terrible . B: She (go) to New York to
2. The police asked me to give them a visit an old friend.
of the burglar. 4. He (already / check) his
3. Someone my friend’s car and emails, but there is still no answer.
took the radio. 5. I (not finish) my homework
4. When Maria saw the snake, she . yet.
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Reading Module 2
Pre-Intermediate
A. Discuss.
1. Have you ever heard of any unusual or extreme sports?
2. Have you ever tried an unusual or extreme sport? If yes, what was it? How did it make you feel? If not, would
you like to? Why?/Why not?
UNUSUAL SPORTS
KITESURFING
Are you looking for a
new water sport? Then
try kitesurfing. It is
another extreme sport
that lots of people
love. It started at the
end of the 1990s
and it soon became
MAN VS HORSE MARATHON popular on almost all
Do you think you know everything about the famous beaches
marathons? Well, think again. In Wales, there around the world.
is a famous race called the Man vs Horse Kitesurfing is like kiting and surfing together.
Marathon. It started in 1980 and it takes People stand on a board and hold a kite bar.
place in the countryside. In this race, people When they hit the first wave, their body flies
compete against horses. The course is about about 40 feet into the air and then they crash
22 miles long and the competitors have to into the water. It is a lot of fun, but it is also
go over steep hills, across rivers and through dangerous. To do this sport, people have to
forests. It is easy for a man to go through a spend a lot of time training and practising. They
thick forest, but a horse has to go around the also have to learn how to avoid accidents and
forest. The aim is for the man to beat the first what to do if an accident happens.
horse and competitors have to be very strong
Vocabulary
to do it. People can race on foot or ride a
marathon: a 42 km long race
bicycle. In 2004, a man racing on foot won the
countryside: an area far from towns or cities
race for the first time. He trained hard to take
board: a long, narrow piece of wood used for surfing
part in the marathon and he won a big prize.
wave: a raised line of water in the sea
B. Read the text and answer the questions. Choose a, b or c.
1. The aim of the Man vs Horse Marathon is for the 3. Kitesurfing takes place
man a. on popular beaches.
a. to run through a thick forest. b. in Wales.
b. to beat the first horse. c. in the countryside.
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c. to win a prize.
4. Kitesurfing
2. In the Man vs Horse Marathon competitors a. is not popular because it is dangerous.
a. have to be very strong. b. has been popular since the end of the 1990s.
b. have to learn how to avoid accidents. c. is easy.
c. can’t ride a bicycle.
5. Both sports
a. are dangerous.
b. started in 1980.
12 c. are difficult.