This document contains an English language exercise with multiple activities focusing on vocabulary, grammar, and language functions. The passage discusses how long various coins have been in a location, as well as questions about duration involving people and relationships. It provides examples of dialogue using time expressions like "since" and "for". The document is a teaching tool rather than substantive content, so the summary focuses on the format and purpose rather than analyzing the document text.

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Unit12.1 Can you explain why you did something?
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2Expand these questions.
a How long / the coins / be here?
b How long / you / know Mary?
c How long / she / live there?
d How long / they / be going out together?
e How long / we / be in this queue?
f How long / your friend / study Chinese?
5Complete the dialogue with since
or for.
PAUL: We haven’t won a game (a)
when, Jim?
JIM: Well, let me see ... not (b)
a few months.
P: Right. How long have we been playing
(c) ?
J: (d) almost seventy-three
minutes now.
P: I haven’t seen such an exciting match
(e) Rovers won the last
Champions League cup!
J: (f) when have you supported
Rovers, Paul?
P: Umm ...
6 Answer the questions so they are true
for you.
How long...
a have you known your best friend?
b have you been studying English?
c have you been sitting here today?
d haven’t you eaten anything for?
e have your parents been married?
1Complete the apologies using
the information from the pictures.
a I’m sorry I haven’t seen you for weeks,
but
b Sorry I haven’t called you since last week,
but
c Sorry I haven’t e-mailed you for weeks,
but
d Sorry I haven’t been to work,
but
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I’m in love!
since
How long have the coins been here?
For twelve years.
a
3 Match these answers with the
questions in Activity 2.
1 For almost 2,000 years.
2 For six months.
3 Nearly half an hour!
4 Since she moved there three years ago.
5 Since last summer when they met on
holiday.
6 Since he was very young. His grandfather
is Chinese!
4For or since?
Circle the correct option.
a Sorry I haven’t called you for / since Saturday.
b I don’t know. I haven’t spoken to him
for / since ages.
c I’ve stopped smoking. I haven’t had a
cigarette for / since 2003.
d They have been sitting in that room
for / since hours.
e You haven’t been to my house for / since
months.
f We’ve known about that for / since the
meeting last week.
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Unit12Unit12.2 Vocabulary
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1 Match the categories to the word
groups.
a environment
b human rights
c homelessness
d crime
e history
f addiction
1 past customs traditions
2 drugs alcohol smoking
3 pollution contamination protect
4 streets housing no home
5 Oxfam Amnesty International
6 commit robbery murder
4 What is the word?
The first letter is given.
a A non-governmental organisation. N
b H is the study of our past.
c P work in politics.
d A country with lot of industry is i .
e You are h when you have
nowhere to live.
f A c is a volunteer organisation
that works to help people in need.
g H r are basic rights for
everyone, like education, housing, freedom.
3 Unscramble the words.
a rachyit begins at home.
b We can’t fafdor a new car.
c We need to protect the vennoirtemn
.
d There is a serious roshgate of
houses.
e voptery is a terrible problem
in our society.
f We must remember our tasp to
avoid the same mistakes.
2 Circle the correct word.
a Poverty / Poor is a serious social problem.
b She can’t permit / afford to buy a house.
c There are much / many wars in this world.
d There is too much / not enough happiness
in the world.
e Addictions / Additions can cause many health
problems.
f The roofless / homeless are a huge problem
in our cities.
5 Find six words from the unit.
Down
1 If you have an addiction, you are ...
2 the name of our planet
3 the opposite of honest
Across
4 to ... a crime
5 another word for areas
6 when there isn’t enough of something
3
GO.
Charity
3
5
4
2
1
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Unit12Unit12.3 Can you talk about problems and consequences?
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1 Complete these sentences with
too much or too many.
a I have things to do.
b She has money!
c I have books for this
bookcase, don’t I?
d They had hand luggage for
the small plane.
e You have got energy, but
I haven’t got enough!
f There will be guests at the
party if we don’t stop inviting people now.
2 Circle the correct option.
a Too much / many governments
abuse human rights.
b Some families don’t have
enough / too much clean water.
c Some tribal peoples are threatened
with too much / enough progress.
d People don’t have enough / have too much
health care in central Africa.
e There isn’t enough / too much food in
the refugee camp and people are dying.
f Not enough / Too many pesticides are used
in farming, which damages the environment.
3Complete these sentences with
such, such a, so or that.
a Poverty is problem that
the government doesn’t know what to do.
b He had bad time at home
that he left home with nothing.
c The amount of pesticides in the fruit
was high that it was dangerous.
d A lot of people live in bad
conditions that they become seriously ill.
e Last winter was cold that
some homeless people died in the streets.
4 Complete the dialogue with the words
below.
enough enough so so
such such that
TV REPORTER: So, Streetkids helps homeless
teenagers who haven’t got
(a) education to
find a job?
AID WORKER: Yes, and these teenagers also
have (b) a bad
relationship with their families
(c) they can’t live
at home.
TR: Right. How does the relationship with
their families get (d) bad
that they live on the streets?
AW: Well, it’s (e) a shame, but
usually it starts with something simple
like an argument. Then the teenagers
feel (f) bad that some of
them try drugs and alcohol. They don’t
get (g) fresh food, and ...
5 Complete these sentences so they are
true about you!
a I have so many
b I have such a that
c I am so that
d I haven’t got enough
too many
enough
such a
friends that I never have
time to see them all!
I have too many
things to do!
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Unit1212.4 Reading and writing
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2 Correct the false sentences.
a CSF is not a charity.
b It is not only clowns who work for CSF.
c CSF only works in war situations.
d CSF travels to different countries.
e The CSF groups in different countries always
work closely together.
f Many groups of CSF began during the 1980s.
CSF is not a normal charity.
How do many charities work?
1 Read the text and put the paragraph headings in the right place.
How did it begin? How do many charities work? How does it work?
How is Clowns Sans Frontières organised? What is its philosophy? Where and when did it begin?
a There are many charities all over the world working to help people
or improve conditions. They try to tell everyone what is happening and make money in a variety of
different ways. Not many of them work like Clowns Sans Frontières (CSF)!
b CSF is an organisation whose idea is to bring laughter and smiles to
children in countries where there is war or terrible problems. They believe that humour, love and
affection, are the best medicine.
c CSF means ‘clowns without frontiers’. They took their name from
Médicins Sans Frontières — doctors who travel all over the world to help people. In fact, CSF is made
up of groups in many countries, using the same name but working independently, and sometimes
getting together for specific events.
d It started in Croatia in 1992. Tortell Poltrona, a clown from Barcelona,
was in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, performing for children who were victims of war. He saw the
terrible effects of war on children and began to organise a group of clowns and performers.
His idea grew and many groups appeared during the 1990s — Paris in 1993, Quebec in 1994,
then San Francisco in 1995 and many other associations were formed all over the world.
e All sorts of clowns, actors, musicians, jugglers, acrobats and dancers
meet children wherever they are: in the streets, in refugee camps, in hospitals, in schools, in war
areas, anywhere that children need psychological and moral support and people are trying to return
to a normal life after a conflict or a disaster or simply because of terrible poverty.
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Unit12Unit12.5 Culture
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Hearts of the stars
1 Work in pairs. Student A reads 1 and 2. Student B reads 1 and 3.
Tell your partner about what you have read.
2Are these sentences true (T)
or false (F)?
a Diana spoke to the TV and newspapers
about Angola.
b Diana never touched an AIDS victim.
c More than six times the number of people
will have HIV in India by 2010.
3 In 1984 a BBC documentary
showed the terrible situation in
Ethiopia — there was no rain
and the people had no food. Bob Geldof, an Irish singer, organised Live Aid, an
international concert that raised more than 176 million dollars. Phil Collins, Sting, Mick
Jagger, Elton John, Madonna and many more joined in.
However, twenty years after Live Aid one billion people in Africa still have no clean water to drink and
every day thousands die of malaria. Bono is another musician who has used his fame to help others. He
is planning Live Aid 2 and also works closely with many AIDS organisations.
Britney Spears, Jude Law and Chris Martin have also worked with Bono to raise money. These well-
known singers and actors use their fame to put pressure on western governments to change their
international policies.
1 Traditionally ‘being a star’ has
meant fame and fortune for
the few. And those few have
guarded their ‘piece of
heaven’ very closely. Eccentric
behaviour has always been accepted and
nobody has ever expected generosity or
solidarity from these ‘stars’.
But what do Richard Gere, Angelina Jolie,
Bono, Sting, Madonna and Princess Diana
all have in common? All rich? Yes. All
famous? Yes. But most importantly, they
work closely with NGOs to tell the world
about the serious problems caused by
AIDS, poverty and war.
d Angelina Jolie first saw landmine victims when
filming in Cambodia.
e It is very expensive to clear land mines.
f Live Aid didn’t make much money.
g People in Africa have lots of clean drinking water.
h These people are able to help because they are
famous.
3 Many more stars dedicate their time, name and money to lots of different charities.
What can you do to help? Discuss with a partner how you can help to fight poverty
in the world. Then write your ideas.
T
2 In 1997 Princess Diana went to Angola.
There she saw the horror caused by
landmines. Diana spoke to the media
about the children she had seen with no
legs. Now, there are many international
campaigns to stop the use of landmines. Diana was
also the first ‘star’ to publicly touch an AIDS victim.
Angelina Jolie has just been made a citizen of
Cambodia, as a result of her fight against
landmines. Jolie saw the results of landmines when
she was making Tomb Raider in Cambodia. It costs
only €1.50 to make one square metre of land safe
for people to walk or play on.
In India, about four million people now have HIV,
the virus that causes AIDS. There will be about
twenty-five million people with HIV/AIDS by the
year 2010. Richard Gere’s charity works together
with the Indian people to prevent AIDS.
2
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