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ADVANCED UNIT 9

9.1 Adjectives: the Arts

1 Put the letters in italics in the correctorder to complete the sentences.1 Paintings of soup tins are

volcanonitenun and not something you see every day.

2 I love modern art – it’s sothughot-

gnikovorp.3 Picasso’s Guernica painting is so

clomplegineven today. I can stare at it for hours.

4 Modern art’s just too fetafob for me.

I like conventional paintings likelandscapes.

5 The artistic design of early Disneymovies is quitemarchgin , maybe even cute.

6 The landscapes by Christian Rohlfsare kaelb and abit depressing at times.

7 I don’t know why people love Banksyso much. His art is highly

treadover inmy view.

8 The designs of Remy Macintosh havealways beenthissly and sophisticated.

Three-part multi-word verbs

2 Complete the sentences with thecorrect form of a verb.1 I’ll round to tidying

the house later, I promise.2 I’m happy to alongwith your choice of restaurant.

3 We really need to upwith a new idea for our business.

4 I’m sick of having toup with their arguing all the time.

5 My school reunion’s next week. Ican’t wait to up withmy old friends.

6 We should join that protest andup for our rights!

7 A er the full ninety minutes, theresult of the match yesterday

down to penalty kicks.8 I don’t in for pop

music. I prefer jazz.

3 Match a beginning in A with a phrase in B and an ending in C tomake sentences.

A B C 1 Richard went down on any mischief whenwe’re away.

2 Make sure you don’t get up with his word. Now he’s nottaking me to New York. 3 I’m putting on too much

weight. I need to cut up tofallen branches on theroad.

4 If you’re in the area, wouldyou would you mind looking back on

her plans to move toAustralia.

5 After that storm last night,you’ll need to watch down with

my grandmother ather flat? I want to besure she’s OK.

6 I’m so busy these days. It’sdifficult to keep away with

people who aren’t asrich as her. What asnob!

7 I wonder if my sister willactually go out for whatever she’s got.

8 My colleague’s feeling ill.I hope I don’t come down on everyone’s news.

9 The government wantsto do

throughwith

student grants. As youcan imagine, studentsaren’t happy.

10 Abru always looks in on chocolate and crisps.

1 Richard went back on his word. Now he’s not taking me to New York.

9.2 Ideas

4 Complete the interview with the phrases in the box.

brainstorm ideas come up with an original ideacoming up with novel ideas gives me the ideahit on the idea seemed like a good idea at the timethe ideas come to me toying with the idea

A: A er publishing so many books, how do you keep1 ?

B: Well, o en 2 while I’m reading anewspaper or something. I see a story or article and it3 for my next book.

A: Is that how you 4 for your latestdetective novel?

B: No. That was more diffi cult, actually. I had to sit down and5 for hours for that one. Before that,I was 6 of writing a different genrefor a change – a historical drama. I even started writing it.

A: What made you stop?B: Well, it had 7 , to try and dosomething different, but actually I found it incredibly hard. Itwas diffi cult for me to 8 that hadn’tbeen done before. So, in the end I went back to what I know andlove and the result is this book.

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5 Find and correct the mistake ineach sentence.1 We could always ask Anne.

She’s usually full ofshining ideas.2 I want to invite Salima to the

cinema, but I don’t want togive her the bad idea.

3 Is this plastic spider on mybed someone’s thought ofa joke?

4 Don’t worry. I have a cleanidea about what to do next.

5 I’ve got to nish this job andI don’t have the thinnest idea

of how to start!6 I have a thought of what Mrs

Brown’s wants in this essay,but I’m not completely sure.

9.3 Express yourself

6 Complete the sentences withone word in each gap. The rstletter of each word is given.1 Don’t mention politics or Ben

will r on forhours about it.

2 You should speak yourm if you feelso strongly about it.

3 I’m sick of hearing the sameviews and opinions. I’mc a freshperspective on life!

4 Amy really r about that new exhibition.

5 I write a blog so I can let myfeelings f !

6 The service here is terrible.I’m going to the give themanager a piece of mym .

Focus on up

7 Match the underlined phrasal verbs with their meanings a)–n).1 When are you going to clean this mess up?

2 I can’t put up with your bad cooking any longer! 3 We’ve now come up against a bit of a problem.

4 I need to brush up on the names of bones for my biology exam. 5 Marco’s trying to build his condence up at public speaking.

6 Please write your experiments up a er the lesson. 7 I think I tore your bank statement up by mistake earlier. Sorry! 8 I admire Jessica for standing up to her boss and asking for more pay.

9 Let’s divide the rest of the biscuits up between us. 10 I wonder how much of that biopic was actually true? I’ll read up on it

later and nd out.

a) review something you onceknew but have forgotten

b) tidyc) shared) toleratee) rip into pieces

8 Complete the spidergram with the phrasal verbs from Exercise 7.Are the two-part verbs separable or inseparable?

9 Complete the sentences with the correct form of phrasal verbs fromExercise 8.

1 In most restaurants, tips are equally

among the waiting staff each day.2 Writers don’t their work anymore, they just delete it from the page.

3 No matter what problems William , healways stays positive.

4 You should Harry more. He is a bully.5 Shall we some Spanish before our trip

to Mexico? 6 Francine needs to her understanding of

the text before the literature test.7 Can I borrow your lecture notes so I can them

for the essay? 8 I think I might Gaudi this evening before

we go to Barcelona.9 We’re all getting together on Saturday to help

the beach. Will you help? 10 I’m not going to your insults anymore.

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f) researchg) increaseh) refuse to be treated badly by

a person of authorityi) meet j) use notes to write a report, etc.

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Crossword

10 Use the clues to complete the crosswordwith words and phrases from Unit 9.

Across 5 escape punishment (phrasal verb) (3, 4, 4) 8 match a reason to an action (phrasal verb) (3, 4, 2) 12 unusual or interesting enough to attract

attention, e.g. art (8) 14 very different from the way people usually

think or behave (14) 15 tolerate (phrasal verb) (3, 2, 4) 16 talk about something you admire in an

excited way (4) 17 talk or complain in a loud, excited way because

you feel excited about it (4) 18 consider a thought or concept as worthy of

pursuit (3, 4, 3, 4) 19 have many useful and inventive thoughts (4, 2, 6, 5)

Down 1 come up with a new thought (3, 2, 2, 4). 2 met with approval, e.g. a lm (4-8) 3 understand how something works, become

aware of (phrasal verb) (5, 2, 2) 4 a sarcastic question asking who made the

decision to do something silly (5, 6, 4, 3, 2) 5 agree with someone or something (phrasal verb) (2, 5, 4) 6 evoking strong emotions, e.g. art (8) 7 makes you think (7-9) 9 reduce (phrasal verb) (3, 4, 2) 10 consider something or someone as inferior

(phrasal verb) (4, 4, 2) 11 say what you really think (5, 4, 4) 13 not easy to notice unless you pay close attention (6)

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