Match sentence halves

Exercise 7. The sentences describe some of the advantages and disadvantages of being rich and famous. In each sentence, underline a word or phrase that is used to link the ideas together.

1. Rich people may not have to worry about paying their bills every month. However, wealth brings other worries of its own.

2. The rich have different financial problems from the rest of us: whereas most of us worry about not having enough money, rich people may worry about what to do with all their money.

3. Although being famous means you often get special treatment, you lose a lor of your privacy.

4. It is much more difficult to know who to trust if you are very rich or very famous. What is more, other people may not know how to react towards you. For this reason, many famous people find it difficult to make true friends.

5. Despite all their achievements, many successful people still feel very insecure.

Exercise 8. Match the linking words above with the explanations:

1. To link arguments for and against HOWEVER

2. To give more reasons for your argument…

3. To explain the consequences of something…

4. To compare two different situations…

1. Choose the right variant. If I knew his address, ________________.

a) I wrote to him

b) I would write to him

c) I will be written to him

d) I will wrote to him

2. Choose the right variant. I __________ late, if I hadn’t overslept.

a) wouldn’t has been

b) would had been

c) would haves been

d) wouldn’t have been

3. Choose the right variant. When asked to select his favourite building Sir Norman Foster ____a Jumbo jet.

a) fixed

b) chose

c) dealt

d) wished

4. Choose the right variant. Foster _____in the vertical city, an architect’s dream that began a hundred years ago and is still resting to be fully realized.

a) hopes

b) believes

c) relies

d) depends