Starter unit Unit 1 Your interests - readers.sk

WORKbOOK 1 Answer key
6 John F. Kennedy and
Abraham Lincoln weren’t
French presidents. They were
American presidents.
3 1 Were you bored at the party?
2 When was the football
match?
3 Where were your friends last
night?
4 Were they tired this morning?
5 What was your grandmother’s
name?
4 1 In 1900 there were some
shops.
2 In 1900 there wasn’t a
supermarket.
3 In 1900 there weren’t any cars.
4 In 1900 there wasn’t a cinema.
5 In 1900 there was a factory.
5 Students’ own answers.
Vocabulary (page 50)
1 1 cross; crossed
2 name; named
3 discover; discovered
4 prefer; preferred
5 like; liked
6 invent; invented
7 live; lived
8 change; changed
9 listen; listened
10 travel; travelled
2 1 lived 5 named
2 discovered 6 travelled
3 changed 7 listened
4 liked
3 1 invented 4 travelled
2 lived 5 changed
3 discovered 6 preferred
4 1 travelled 4 listened
2 invented 5 liked
3 lived 6 preferred
Language focus (page 51)
1 2 lived 5 didn’t live
3 visited 6 didn’t visit
4 didn’t travel
2 1 Pelé didn’t play tennis.
He played football.
2 Queen Victoria didn’t live in
Poland. She lived in the UK.
3 Marconi didn’t invent the TV.
8 ENGLISH PLUS 1 Workbook answer key
He invented the radio.
4 In 1890 people didn’t travel by
plane. They travelled by train.
5 The Romans didn’t invade
America. They invaded France.
6 Neil Armstrong didn’t explore
Antarctica. He explored the
moon.
3 1 She visited her grandparents
two months ago.
2 Columbus arrived home in
1493.
3 You lived in Mexico last year.
4 James travelled to Morocco a
year ago.
5 I stayed in a hotel yesterday.
6 Jane watched that film last
night.
7 People used horses in
the 19th century.
4 Students’ own answers.
Reading (page 52)
1 b
2 1 A 2 E 3 D 4 B
3 1 false 4 false
2 false 5 true
3 true 6 true
4 1 Marie Curie’s parents were
both school teachers.
2 She changed her surname in
1895 when she married
Pierre Curie.
3 Marie Curie and her husband
discovered radium.
4 She started teaching at the
Sorbonne University.
5 She was ill because she
worked with radioactive
radium.
6 She died in 1934.
5 2 first name; surname
3 brand name
4 middle name
Writing (page 53)
1 1 in 4 the 1960s
2 century 5 today
3 ago
2 1 two hundred years
2 fifty years ago
3 1967
4 1970s
5 Today
3 1 in the west of England
2 was bigger than most other
Roman villas in the UK
3 lived there for about three
hundred years
4 in 1864
5 opened Chedworth to the
public
6 beautiful Roman baths and
mosaics
7 10,000 children visit every year
4 Students’ own answers.
Progress review (page 54)
1 1 chef 5 artist
2 actor 6 inventor
3 king 7 mechanic
4 musician 8 nurse
2 1 first name
2 middle names
3 nickname
4 surname
5 brand name
3 1 Was 5 were
2 was 6 weren’t
3 Were 7 were
4 wasn’t 8 wasn’t
4 1 crossed 4 invented
2 discovered 5 changed
3 invaded 6 travelled
(page 55)
5 1 In 1600 people didn’t travel by
train.
2 Cleopatra lived in Egypt two
thousand years ago.
3 Marconi didn’t invent the
internet.
4 The astronaut Yuri Gagarin
visited space in 1961.
5 Ferdinand Magellan didn’t
discover Australia.
6 Travellers stopped using
horses a hundred years ago.
6 1 c 3 b 5 f
2 a 4 e 6 d
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