B1 U3 Extra Grammar Practice Reinforcement

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Extra

Extra grammar
grammar practice
practice: revision
reinforcement Unit 3
some, any, much, many, a lot (of), 4 Find and correct the mistakes in each sentence.
a few, a little; Countable and 1 The woman whose helped me is Turkish.
uncountable nouns; Defining and
non-defining relative clauses 2 In Brazil, which the main language is Portuguese,
around 3 million people speak German.
1 Circle the correct alternative.
1 A lot of/A lot gestures mean different things in 3 The football team, that I support, is from Japan.
different countries.
2 I’m afraid I have a little/little time to revise for the 4 Smuggling, is still illegal, was common in the UK in
exam. I might fail. the 1700s.
3 Many/A few Canadians speak French.
4 Teens spend a lot of/much money on their phones 5 2020 was the year who it became impossible to see
and tablets. your friends.
5 Do you know some/any words beginning with the
letter ‘X’? 6 My mum, that parents are Japanese and
6 Some phrasal verbs have few/a few different Argentinian, speaks five languages.
meanings – that’s why they’re so difficult to learn.
7 She can speak a little/much Arabic because she
lived in Morocco for a year. 5 Choose the best answer (A, B or C) to complete
8 There are a little/a few people in my class who can the text.
speak two languages fluently.
Recent studies say that there are now over 400 million
2 Read the text and look at the nouns in bold. Are mother-tongue speakers of English, but there are
they C (countable) or U (uncountable)? (1) more people (2) use English as a second
When you are learning a (1) language, (2) practice is language – around 500 million. However, estimates
very important. To improve (3) fluency, you should try vary because there aren’t (3) official figures.
to speak in the language every day. One way to improve
English is still the main language in countries like
(4) accuracy is to do (5) grammar (6) exercises.
(7) Students often do these for (8) homework. You Nigeria and Ghana, (4) were once ex-British
can also become more accurate by reading a lot in the colonies. People need to use English in (5) official
language you are learning. For example, you could read situations, such as in the government and education.
(9) magazines or (10) blogs. Why don’t these countries use a local language
1 2
  instead? Because it’s too difficult to choose between
3 4
  the (6) other languages (7) belong to the
5 6
  local people!
7 8
  It’s difficult to know the number of second-language
9 10 English speakers in these countries because (8)
the ex-British colonies are in poor parts of the world,
3 Complete the text with the words in the box. Use (9) people often don’t get an education. This
each word only once. means that only a small percentage of the local
population can speak English really well, but (10)
0 • ​when • ​where • ​which • ​who • ​whose
can say a few words in English.
Do you have any friends (a) can speak
nine languages? I do! Alex is a guy (b) 1 A a few B many C few
I met in Greece last summer. We met at the language 2 A who B 0 C which
school in Athens (c) we were studying. 3 A some B a little C any
4 A who B which C where
We were both in a class with a teacher (d)
5 A some B any C little
classes were fantastic. Alex learnt English, German and
6 A much B many C a few
French at school, and then he went travelling round the
7 A that B who C 0
world and learnt Russian, Polish, Arabic and Japanese
8 A a lot of B much C any
(e) he was a young man. He said it
9 A that B which C where
was curiosity (f) made him learn so
10 A any B many C much
many languages.

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