Unit 9
LOOKING BACK
PRONUNCIATION
1. Listen and underline the unstressed words.
1. I’m looking for a job to keep me busy this summer.
2. He saw the advertisement in today’s newspaper.
3. How far is it from here to your school?
2. Underline the unstressed words and read them aloud.
1. I would like to take a year off first, and then go to university.
2. Working as a journalist, he has the opportunity to meet famous people and interview them.
3. I decided to be an apprentice to an electrician for two years, and then I will study electrical engineering at university.
VOCABULARY
Complete the sentences.
1. workforce
2. career
3. temporary
4. career advice
5. apprentice
6. options
GRAMMAR
1. Complete the sentences.
1. go on with
2. keep up with
3. come up with
4. get on with
5. ran out of
6. drop in on
7. cut down on
8. dropped out of
2. Make complex sentences.
1. If you eat too much, you may fall ill.
2. Kate is as beautiful as her mother.
3. He is not as bright as he thinks he is.
4. It rained so hard that the plane couldn’t take off.
5. Unless you run fast, you will be late for school.
6. It was such a good novel that Mary couldn’t put it down.
7. If I had one million dollars, I would travel around the world.
8. The apprentice finished the work as Mr Smith had requested.