Practice Exercise 1 – 3rd Sec

It was a very cold day in winter. I didn’t have a coat and I was .................... .

The news story about the match missed out on the injured player so there was bias by .................... .

I took many notes because the lecturer gave a lot of interesting information. The synonym for
“lecturer” here is .................... .

Egypt enters teams into many different international .................... .

My sister Marwa is never .............. and always spends a lot of time explaining my homework to me.

When you want to introduce an opposite opinion when you are writing, you can say “....................”.

At the top of a tabloid news story, there is usually .................... .

When writing a formal report, you should use .................... .

Which of the following is correctly structured?

Although we are surrounded by these mass-produced devices, this does not mean that their
use should be implemented in the future.’ This could be part of an essay about .................... .

The car broke down and I couldn’t put my finger on the cause. This means that I .................... .

In his advertisement, he left out the fact that the flat isn’t opposite the Nile to make others buy
it for a higher price. This is a bias by .................... .

You should .................... speaking English with native speakers to speak fluently.

I can’t hear you; please, .................... your voice.

You .................... your father yesterday; the problem was too serious for you to solve alone.

You have to .................... your mobile phone before you enter the meeting.

Once I .................... making the cake, I’ll give you some to taste.

You can’t rely on this information; it’s .................... .

My father always .................... us go to bed early when we have exams. We have to obey his order!

The following is a part of a/an .................... essay.
Stanley Bridge is one of the most famous architectural works in Alexandria. It is 400 metres long
and 30 metres wide. It has four towers designed in the Islamic style used in the royal palace
of Al Montazah. The Bridge was built with the aim of enlarging the Alexandria beachside and
decreasing traffic in that area.

When handling the body of an argumentative essay on the disadvantages of homeschooling,
we can use:

Read the following passage, then answer the questions:

Lotfia Elnadi was born in Cairo in 1907 to a government-official father and a devoted
mother. Her magnificent achievements have opened doors for female pilots throughout the
entire Arab world.
Not long after it opened, Lotfia Elnadi decided to join the Cairo aviation school in order to
learn to fly. Her instructor realised she had great potential and after less than seventy days
of training, she earned her pilot’s licence. Consequently, from September 1933, at the age of
26 she was officially allowed to pursue her dream of flying which, she claimed, made her feel
free. If becoming the first Arab female pilot in history was not enough, Lotfia Elnadi made
newspaper headlines again only a few months after getting her licence. She became the
second woman in the world to fly solo when she entered a race from Cairo to Alexandria.
Lotfia’s determination to achieve her dream is something many pilots admire today.
Her struggle to overcome the difficulties, such as paying for her flying lessons by working at
the airport as a receptionist, is part of a documentary about her life called Take Off From the
Sand, made in 1996. Loftia Elnadi died at the age of 95 in 2002, but her life story will continue
to inspire other Arab women to accomplish their goals.

This text talks about .................... .

The sentence which best summarises the final paragraph is “....................”.

Lotfia Elnadi’s achievements .................... .

Lotfia earned her pilot’s licence .................... .

Lotfia earned her pilot’s licence .................... .

Lotfia Elnadi made the headlines .................... .

Read the following passage, then answer the questions:
Archaeologists working at the ancient site of Thonis-Heracleion have made a remarkable
new discovery. They have found baskets filled with fruit dating back to the fourth century
BCE! Before the city disappeared under the sea in the second century BCE, hundreds of
ships had been visiting Thonis-Heracleion every day and it was Egypt’s largest port on the
Mediterranean. The city had been forgotten until it was explored by a French archaeologist,
Franck Goddio, in the year 2000 CE.
Although archaeologists had raised many large statues and metal objects from the sea at
Thonis-Heracleion before this, Goddio said that he thought the discovery of the basket was
incredible. This is because fruit does not usually last for very long at all. However, although
metal and stone statues are more valuable, everyday objects such as a fruit basket can often
teach archaeologists a lot more about people in history. For example, historians learned what
the Romans ate after finding bread dating back to 79 AD, when the volcano Vesuvius erupted
and covered the town of Herculaneum in rocks and ash.
Similarly, archaeologists learnt what people ate in Britain in around 2000 BCE after finding
a spoon that had been buried with food on it.
The basket at Thonis-Heracleion was filled with grape seeds and the fruit of a doum palm
tree. They probably survived because they had been kept in an underground room.
In the next ten years, a lot more of Thonis- Heracleion will have been discovered. In fact,
Goddio claimed that only 3% of the site had been explored so far. Consequently, archaeologists
will probably be finding many more inspiring objects in the future.

From the text, find the expression that means ‘make it possible for someone’.

What is the main idea of the passage?

The underlined word “erupted” in the second paragraph is similar in meaning to .................... .

Thonis-Heracleion .................... .

The baskets discovered in the site of Thonis-Heracleion were filled with fruit dating back to ........... .

Historians learned what the Romans ate due to finding .................... dating back to 79 AD.

According to the article, which of the following is incorrect?

The underlined word “this” in the second paragraph refers to .................... .