Page 234 - English Vocabulary In Use upper intermediet and advance

Unit 4 1

Probable answers:
1 bowls (the bowls have a weight on one side which gives them a bias as they roll)
2 hang-gliding ('at the top' = at the top of the hill from which the hang-glider is launched)
3 motor-racing
4 riding (most people get a very sore seatllegs when they first try it)
5 windsurfing (being able to stay upright on the water)
6 snookerlpoollbilliardsldarts, but could, of course, apply to a number of other sports too (golf,
shooting, etc.) (Snooker, pool and billiards are similar games but have different rules.)
Equipment: 1 arrows 2 shuttlecock 3 ball 4 ball 5 dartboard
Clothing:
1 Archers usually wear special gloves, and probably a cap to shade their eyes.
2 Usually sweat-shirt and shorts or tennis-skirt, with tennis-style shoes, possibly sweat-bands
too.
3 Hockey-players usually wear shorts or a short tennis-skirt, but also protective gloves, shin-
pads and possibly a safety-helmet.
4 Baseball players often wear caps, plus protective clothing (special gloves, shin-pads, etc.).
5 No special clothes, since the game is usually played informally in pubs and clubs.

1 broken 2beateddefeated 3win 4takeup 5holds 6scored

1 a long jumper 4 a discusljavelin thrower 7 a footballer or a football player
2 a jockey 5 a gymnast 8 a pole-vaulter
3 a racing driver 6 a hockey player

1 tennis, squash etc.
2 could be golf (golf-course) or horse-racing (racecourse)
3 usually boxing or wrestling
4 used for football, rugby and cricket
5 ice-skating
6 ten-pin bowling or skittles (a traditional British game similar to ten-pin but with only nine pins)
7 a track where you ski

Unit 42

Probable answers:
1 Sculpture (The verb stand is often associated with statues; it could also be architecture, if
'Peace' is interpreted as the name of a building or huge monument.)
2 Cinema (Animated films are often associated with Walt Disney, e.g. the Mickey Mouse
cartoons, but are also a serious art form.)
3 Dance (Movement and rhythm are the clues.)
4 Poetry (Rhyme - having the same sounds at the ends of consecutive lines - is often thought of
as a necessary quality of good poetry.)
5 Painting (Oil-based and water-based paints are the two most popular types of paint used by
artists.)
6 Architecture (We talk of the design of a building.)
7 Drama textslplays in written form.
8 Perhaps a novel, but it could be any book divided into chapters, e.g. an academic textbook.
9 A play at the theatre (Plays are divided into acts - major divisions, and scenes - smaller
divisions.)

English Vocabulary in Use 229