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VOCABULARY

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CITY LIFE
Exercise 1. Complete the sentences with the words in the box. Use a dictionary if
necessary.
express handy inner-city overcrowded
remote secure well-connected winding

1. The children didn’t like the house because it was so ____________. They didn’t
have any neighbours at all.
2. The local shop was very ____________ because it was only a short walk away.
3. We go to school on the ____________ bus. It only takes twenty minutes.
4. ____________ schools don’t have enough space for sport activities because there
isn’t any spare land.
5. She was cycling down a ____________ street and didn’t see the car coming around
the bend.
6. The bus was ____________ and the driver had to ask some people to get off.
7. The new flats are very ____________. You can only enter the building using a
code.
8. With buses every ten minutes and a train station nearby, the village is small but
____________.

Exercise 2: Choose the correct adjectives to complete the sentences.


built- construction- housing- industrial- inner- never- roof- run- sky- water
Taking a ‘dérive’
Frustrated by walking the same (1) ____________-city streets every day, 1940s
Parisian artists took unplanned routes named ‘dérive’. Last week my friend and I used
an app to try it ourselves. Our normal route home from school takes us through a (2)
____________ estate with blocks of flats but the app’s route took us through a
neighbouring (3) ____________ estate. The factories there are quite (4)
____________-down but looking at the (5) ____________ tops, I noticed a beautiful
old chimney worthy of a photo. I uploaded it and immediately got some likes. In
contrast, nearby was a (6) ____________ site where a new glass fronted office block
was going up. Next, the app guided us along the (7) ____________front. I’d been

Source: Pearson Education


VOCABULARY
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there many times but never looked at it closely. I took photos of the pretty (8)
____________ line across the river. The dérive has made me appreciate this (9)
____________-up area of the city more. In fact, I might even stop complaining about
the (10) ____________-ending walk to school.

ANSWER KEY
Exercise 1.
1. remote 2. handy 3. express
4. inner-city 5. winding 6. overcrowded
7. secure 8. well-connected
Exercise 2.
1. inner 2. housing 3. industrial
4. run 5. roof 6. construction
7. water 8. Sky 9. built 10. never

Source: Pearson Education

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