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First Certificate Language Practice

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Look carefully at each linę. Some lines are correct, but some have a word which shoułd not be there.Tick each correct linę. If a linę has a word which should not be there, write the word in the space.

KEY POINTS

Losing Your Memory

Imagine it that one day you woke up and    ...'.t.

discovered that you had completely lost your

memory. How would you have feel exactly?    1)......

I have thought about this recently after I was    2)......

involved in a traffic accident. I woke up in    3)......

hospital, and said to myself ‘It’s the time I    4)......

got up and have went to school!’ I soon realised    5)

my mistake. A nurse came in and asked to me    6)......

what my name was. I thought about it for a    7)......

moment and then said, ‘I would wish I knew!’    8)......

Then I tried to get up. Td rather prefer    9)......

you didn’t do that/ said the nurse. 'Don’t worry,    10)......

you’11 have it your memory back soon/    11)

‘I wish you hadn’t have said that,’ I replied.    12)......

‘Now I am really worried! ’ If I hadn’t looked    13)

in my wallet, I wouldn’t have been known my    14)......

own name! Unfortunately my memory soon came    15)......

back, and I realised I had a maths test the next day!

1    Past tense forms are used in imaginary (hypothetical) situations after It’s time and I’d rather when followed by a person.

It’s time we left.

2    Wishes about the present use a past tense form, and wishes about the past use a past perfect form.

3    Wishes with would refer either to annoying habits, or to possible futurę changes.

4    Wish and hope cannot be used in the same way. Wishes can be for impossible things, but hopes only for possible things.

With a person: I hope you have a good time.

I hope you won ’t be late.

Wish cannot be used in this way.

With the infinitive: I hope to seeyou next week.

Wish with the infinitive means want (a polite meaning).

I wish to seeyou next week.    \

Notę also the formal expressions:

We wish you a happy New Year/every happiness/luck.

Unit 9 Passive voice

Expianations

Uses

1    Transitive and intransitive

Only verbs with an object (transitive) can be madę passive.

They sent the letter.    The letter was sent.

They arrived late.    (Cannot be madę passive.)

Verbs with both direct and indirect objects can be madę passive in two ways: They sent me the letter. Iwas sent the letter.

The letter was sent to me.

2    Like and love

Some verbs which are transitive cannot be madę passive in some uses.

I like this place. (A passive form of this sentence would not be acceptable.)

3    Contexts

By placing the object at the beginning of the sentence, the passive can change the focus of interest in a sentence.

United were beaten by Arsenał (We are morę interested in United)

The passive is used in a variety of contexts.

Impersonal statements.    Students areaskednot to smoke.

When the agent is unknown.    My bike has been stolen!

(This avoids using someone or they.)

When the agent is obvious.    Mr Jones will be arrested.

How something was done.    The box was opened with a knife.

Reporting verbs

1    The passive is often used with say, believe, understand, know and similar verbs used in reporting to avoid an impersonal they orpeople.

People say that John Wilson lives in New York.

John Wilson is said to live in New York.

2    The past tense and continuous verbs can also be reported in this way.

John Wilson is said to be travelling in Africa.

John Wilson is said to have arrived in Australia.

To have or get something clone

1    Causative have describes services done for us by someone else.

Lastyear I had new tilesput on the roof.

2    The same construction can describe misfortunes which happen to us, caused by an unspecified person.

Peter had his car stolen last week.

And then he had his leg brokenplaying football.

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