Fourth Edition
(With Removable Key)
Fourth Edition
9780521140751 ISBN Clare West Recycling Your English. Cover. C M Y K
Clare West This book for upper-intermediate students provides extensive guidance and practice in five crucial areas: •
Grammar.
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Phrasal verbs.
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Vocabulary.
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Word study.
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Writing.
Recycling Your English
Recycling Your English
Recycling Your English
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:
With Removable Key
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77 user-friendly units and eight tests.
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Wide variety of challenging exercises.
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Regular recycling of grammar and vocabulary.
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Model compositions for writing tasks.
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Practice in all task types for FCE Papers 2 and 3.
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Recommended by Cambridge International Examinations for IGCSE English as a Second Language preparation.
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Ideal material for classroom use or self-study.
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Removable answer key.
Fourth Edition
Clare West has taught in the UK and overseas for many years and is an established author.
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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION SECTION 1 1 2 3 4 5
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GRAMMAR
Present simple and present continuous Past simple and present perfect Past simple and past continuous Past simple and past perfect RECYCLING
8 10 12 13 14
6 7 8 9 10
Conditionals Passives Supposition Question tags RECYCLING
16 18 20 21 22
11 12 13 14 15
Reported speech I wish and If only The future Future continuous and future perfect RECYCLING
24 26 28 29
16 17 18 19 20
Prepositions Comparatives and superlatives Have something done Definite and indefinite articles RECYCLING
32 34 36 37 38
21 22 23 24 25
Difficult verbs Relative pronouns Quantifiers Gerund and infinitive RECYCLING
40 42 44 46 48
26 27 28 29 30
Linking words Modal verbs Adjectives Adverbs RECYCLING
50 52 54 55 56
SECTION 2
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PHRASAL VERBS
31 Phrasal verbs with look 32 Phrasal verbs with take 33 Phrasal verbs with put
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34 Phrasal verbs with bring 35 Phrasal verbs with set, stand and run 36 RECYCLING
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37 38 39 40 41 42
65 66 67 68 69 70
Phrasal verbs with come Phrasal verbs with go Phrasal verbs with get Phrasal verbs with turn Phrasal verbs with see, give and break RECYCLING
SECTION 3
VOCABULARY
43 44 45 46 47 48
Computers and the internet Sport Books and reading Work Education RECYCLING
72 74 75 76 77 78
49 50 51 52 53 54
The environment Crime and punishment Health and fitness Travel and holidays Science and technology RECYCLING
80 81 82 83 84 85
55 56 57 58 59 60
Food and drink People and lifestyles Relationships Entertainment and the media Money and shopping RECYCLING
87 88 89 90 91 92
SECTION 4 61 62 63 64 65 66
WORD STUDY
Word building Headline language Idioms Collocations Colloquial language RECYCLING
94 96 98 100 102 104
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SECTION 5 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77
WRITING
Informal letters and emails Formal letters Replying to emails and letters Articles Reports Reviews Short stories Essays Set texts Spelling Editing and checking
106 108 110 114 116 118 120 122 124 126 128
TESTS Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4 Test 5 Test 6 Test 7 Test 8
130 132 134 136 138 140 142 144
IRREGULAR VERBS
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UNIT 1 Present simple and present continuous The present simple is used to talk about a actions done regularly or frequently, often with adverbs like never, seldom, occasionally, sometimes, often, usually and always: s $AVID USUALLY PLAYS FOOTBALL ON 3ATURDAY s 7HAT DO YOU DO IN THE EVENINGS b facts that are always or usually true: s %LEPHANTS DONT EAT MEAT s 3HE COMES FROM #AIRO 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: s %LENA IS WRITING A LETTER AT THE MOMENT 3HES WRITING TO -ARIA
A Complete the sentences, using the present simple or the present continuous.
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He always _________ chocolate after lunch. (eat) I can’t come. I _________ my mother. (help) They _________ hard enough at present. (not / study) They often _________ coffee in the evenings. (drink) Clara occasionally _________ to the theatre. (go) Yukiko _________ a bath now. (have) We _________ a cake at the moment. (make) I never _________ cigarettes. (smoke) She _________ her hair twice a week. (wash) Lisa _________ her sister’s car today. (drive) The Amazon _________ into the Atlantic. (flow) Many birds _________ south for the winter. (fly)
B Write full sentences using the information given. EXAMPLE: You / enjoy / the party? Are you enjoying the party?
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You / speak / Greek? ____________________________________________ Bill / know / Mr Jameson? _______________________________________ We / not live / in a large house. __________________________________ Alexander / not go / to the beach very often. ______________________ I / have to / attend the ceremony? ________________________________ Jane / watch / television at the moment? __________________________ Costas / not work / in a bank. ___________________________________ The children / not listen / to their mother now. ____________________ Theo / live / in New York? ________________________________________ William / study / at the moment?__________________________________ Where / you / usually spend / your holidays? _______________________ I / not earn much money at present. ______________________________
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UNIT 1
The following verbs do not normally take the continuous form: s BELIEVE BELONG CONTAIN DISLIKE DOUBT HATE IMPRESS KNOW LIKE LOVE MEAN NEED OWE OWN PREFER RESEMBLE SEEM SUPPOSE SURPRISE UNDERSTAND WANT WISH The following verbs can be used in the simple or continuous form but with different meanings: s APPEAR FEEL SEE SMELL TASTE THINK
C Complete the sentences, using the correct present tense of the verbs in brackets.
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D Complete the sentences, using the correct present tense of the verbs in brackets.
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. (wear, feel) 11 Wood _________ on water. (float) 12 ‘Why _________ you _________?’ ‘Because nobody _________ me, that’s why!’ (cry, love)
A famous actress _________ in a play at the local theatre. (appear) I’m sure she _________ tea to coffee. (prefer) His story _________ to be true. (appear) George _________ of visiting Turkey this summer. (think) Rupert says the book _________ to him. (belong) The director _________ that would be a mistake. (believe) Louisa _________ having supper late. (hate) This pasta _________ simply delicious. (taste) There _________ to be something wrong with the photocopier. (seem) Now I _________ what the teacher _________ . (understand, mean) You’d better not drink that milk. It _________ bad. (smell) Frank _________ me a lot of money! (owe)
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