Grammar 10 on
Present simple and present continuous my parents’ balcony and 11 people in the
1 Each of these sentences contains a mistake. Cross street below.
out the mistake and write the correct word or 12 my friends for a
words at the end of the sentence. meal, or sometimes we 13 volleyball in
one of the city parks. Of course, there 14
1 Living in the countryside is having many 15 more
advantages. has and more crowded, for example, and the crime rate
2 16 because there are a lot of people out of
expensive places. work.
3 Winters in my city are hard because it’s
snowing a lot. Writing
4 City life becoming more and more expensive. Task 1
1 Look at the pie chart and match sentence parts
5 1–7 with a–g.
home town.
6 People generally are believing that country life its museums and galleries 16%
is healthier than city life. its friendly inhabitants. 22%
7 The city council is build lots of new apartment
blocks in the suburbs. other 10%
8
its summer arts festival. 36%
nothing to do.
2 Complete the passage with the correct form of its cafés, bars and restaurants. 16%
the verbs in the box (present simple or present
Edinburgh visitors survey: What are the city’s
continuous).
best features?
1 The chart shows a choose its museums and
2 The largest galleries as the things they
percentage, 36 like the most.
percent, b choose its friendly
3 22 percent inhabitants.
4 16 percent of c choose other things.
visitors d think that its summer arts
5 The city’s festival is the best thing
cafés, bars and about it.
be (x3) become have (x2) like live look
restaurants were e think the city’s cultural
meet play rise sit stay think watch
popular with attractions are its best
1 live in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. 6 10 percent features.
2 a small flat in the suburbs, but at the f another 16 percent of visitors.
7 Overall, the
3 with my parents in the city g what visitors to Edinburgh
majority of
centre because my mother 4 like most about the city.
visitors
5 after her until she gets better.
6 that Buenos Aires is a really lively and
7 it here a lot. City
life in general 8 lots of advantages. There
9 always so many things to see and do.
10 Unit 1
2 Now look at the chart about where tourists stay at Spelling
a holiday destination. Put the sentences below in
the correct order to make a summary. Making nouns plural
34% 1 Write the singular and plural forms of the words
from the box in the table.
boss boy foot man match
Percentage of tourists
24% party potato visitor wife
22%
Rule Singular Plural
9% 1 Add s boy boys
8%
3%
2 Add es
Other
Local hotels
houses
Guest
Youth hostel
Campsite 3 Change one
hotels
or more of the
letters
4 Change the
last letter to i
Where tourists stay at Casuarina Beach
and add es
5 Remove the
A 24 percent of tourists stay in these. last two letters
and add ves
B The youth hostel and the campsite
accommodate nine percent and eight percent of
2 These sentences contain a singular word that
tourists. should be plural. Each word follows one of the
C Overall, more visitors stay in hotels than in rules in the table above. Underline the word, then
any other kind of accommodation. write the plural form at the end of each sentence.
D The largest percentage, 34 percent, stay in the 1 There are three really good beach a few miles
town’s local hotels. from my home. beaches
E The chart gives information about the different 2 Many people grow their own peas, beans and
types of accommodation that tourists stay in tomato.
when they visit Casuarina Beach. 1 3 Everyone knows that sugar is bad for your tooth.
F
percent of tourists choosing to stay in one. 4 There are more woman in the government now
than there used to be.
G A further three percent stay in other types of 5 He told us some really funny story about the
accommodation. time he worked on a farm.
H Guest houses are the next most popular type 6
of accommodation.
7
street.
8 Bus into town run every 30 minutes during the
day.
9 There are several good hotel in my town.
10 My cat is always bringing dead mouse into my
flat.
Great places to be 11
