Figure Work

Look at these figures, amounts and dates and decide how you would say them.

1) 75,345
2) 15,368,000
3) 29%
4) 3/4
5) 25.01.2010
6) 5/8
7) 8,650,000
8) 432
9) 1/3
10) 2:3
11) 1.5.93
12) 6 2/3
13) 24,392,000
14) 6,125
15) 2.30
16) 1 1/2

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Confused Words

Choose the correct word to complete the sentence.

1) The _____ by train takes about three hours. (journey, voyage)
2) My car's very _____, it doesn't use much petrol. (economic, economical)
3) Do you think the higher price will _____ the sale of the product very much? (affect, effect)
4) If you want to buy a second-hand car, why don't you look at the _____ in the newspaper? (announcements, advertisements)
5) It's _____ to have an umbrella with you when you are in Britain. (sensible, sensitive)

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Gerund or Infinitive

Choose Gerund or Infinitive in the sentences below.

1. Is there anything in that new magazine worth _____?
a) reading; b) to read

2. Although I was in a hurry, I stopped _____ to him.
a) talking; b) to talk

3. She really must quit _____.
a) smoking; b) to smoke

4. Would you mind _____ the door?
a) closing; b) to close

5. You should remember _____ him. He'll be at home.
a) phoning; b) to phone

6. All parts of Prague seem _____ to different epochs.
a) belonging; b) to belong

7. Do you enjoy _____?
a) swimming; b) to swim

8. Why have you stopped? Go on _____.
a) reading; b) to read

9. The teacher asked some questions and went on _____ us about the climate of England.
a) telling; b) to tell

10. When we had finished _____, the waiter brought the bill.
a) eating; b) to eat

11. My elder brother entered the college and I hope _____ it too.
a) entering; b) to enter

12. My car badly needs servicing and Tom offered _____ me with it.
a) helping; b) to help

13. Avoid _____ and you will shortly feel better.
a) overeating; b) to overeat

14. I can't help _____ about that awful accident.
a) thinking; b) to think

15. The Adams want _____ for London this week.
a) leaving; b) to leave

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What's Cooking? Vocabulary Exercise

Can you answer all the questions below?

1. The cover for a pot is called a?
2. What do you do with a rolling pin?
3. What do you use a grater for?
4. Does a pot go on the top of the stove or in the oven?
5. A common expression is "pots and?"
6. What does a pot or ? have that a kettle does not have?
7. What two kettles look very different?
8. Cookies are baked on?
9. A shallow pan you use to bake a sheet cake is called?
10. Layer cakes are baked in the oven in?
11. A mixture of meat, noodles or rice, and sauce might be baked in the oven in?
12. You would cook a beef roast in the oven in a?
13. A good, heavy pan for fudge might be an?
14. Many modern cookware sets are coated on the inside, so they are called?
15. A pan you use to bake bread is called a?
16. You could cook fish on the stovetop in this pan. It is a?
17. Pancakes are cooked on a?
18. If you make a pie, you would bake it in a pan called a?
19. The container you make cake batter or cookie dough in is called a?
20. You might clean the cake batter out of the container with a?
21. When you take a hot pan out of the oven, you use what protection?

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