Some activities to revise UNIT 2

                                                       UNIT 2

Vocabulary

  1  Choose the correct answers.

       1.  Firefighters rescue / damage / pollute people from fires.

       2.  It’s important to recycle / plant / clean up newspapers and bottles.

       3.  We destroy / clean up / throw out our rubbish twice a week.

       4.  I want to plant / collect / rescue all the cans in this room.

       5.  On Clean Up Day, people damage / pick up / pollute rubbish. 

Grammar

  2  Write questions with the words below. Use the Past Continuous.

       1.  what / the boys / collect / at the beach

                                                                                                                                                  

       2.  the girls / plant / flowers / in the forest

                                                                                                                                                  

       3.  who / the people / talk to / outside the building

                                                                                                                                                  

       4.  what / Dylan / do / last night / at 7 o’clock                                                                                                                                                 

  3  Complete the sentences with the words below. Use the Past Simple or Past Continuous and when or while.

       1.  It started to rain ......................................................................................................................

            the children / swim / in the sea

       2.  We stopped talking ................................................................................................................

            the teacher / come / into the room

       3.  The students were cleaning up the park ................................................................................

            their parents / plant / flowers

       4.  I was walking to school ...........................................................................................................

            I / fall / in the snow

  4  Complete the passage with the verbs in brackets. Use the Past Simple or Past Continuous.

The Exxon Valdez was a large ship and it ¹……………………………… (transport) oil to many countries. On 24th March 1989, while the ship ²……………………………… (travel) from Alaska
to Los Angeles, it ³……………………………… (hit) Bligh Reef. This damaged the ship and a lot
of the oil ⁴……………………………… (go) into the sea. Many birds ⁵……………………………… (hunt) for food in the sea when the accident ⁶……………………………… (happen). About 250,000 birds ⁷……………………………… (die) and the oil killed thousands of fish, whales and other sea animals, too. It ⁸……………………………… (take) more than $4 billion, three years and thousands of workers to clean up the area.

                                            ANSWERS

VOCABULARY

1     1.  rescue              3.  throw out          5.  pick up
       2.  recycle             4.  collect

GRAMMAR

2     1.  What were the boys collecting at the beach?
       2.  Were the girls planting flowers in the forest?
       3.  Who were the people talking to outside the building?
       4.  What was Dylan doing last night at 7 o’clock?

3    1.  It started to rain while the children were swimming in the sea.
       2.  We stopped talking when the teacher came into the room.
       3.  The students were cleaning up the park while their parents were planting flowers.
       4.  I was walking to school when I fell in the snow.

4     1.  transported         3.  hit                5.  were hunting        7.  died
       2.  was travelling      4.  went            6.  happened           8.  took