28 ene 2013

Sunny Side Up 5


Section A
  1. Glossy, embroidered, gleaming; 2. Impeccably, turned-out, young, smoothed, spotless; 3. Leathery, sunburnt, open-necked, large, work-hardened, carefully, best; 4. Heavy, burning, drifting.
Section B
  1. With; 2. Up; 3. In, for
Section D
  1. To plot something
  2. Totally full / crowded with people

Sunny Side Up 4


Section A
1. last, breath-taking; 2. particularly, brilliant; 3. rickety, rough; 4. strong, sweet;
5. bushy, fleshy-leafed; 6. dazzling, silky; 7. flickering, strong, deep-etched, old;
8. frozen, resplendent, dazzlingly, battery-powered; 9. gingerly, uneven;
10. vast, rhyming, hilarious, scurrilous.
Section B
  1. out, in; 2. out; 3. to; 4. on; 5. to; 6. on; 7. on, from; 8. of, into, up, around.

Section D
  1. To do something just for fun, for no real reason
  2.  with no or very little light
  3. to be very deep in the ground
  4. a situation that is dangerous or difficult to escape from
  5. to be very popular and fashionable
  6. something is very / utterly frightening

21 dic 2012

Reading Test

Dear advanced students,
Here is the promised copy of the text you wanted to have:


Sunny Side Up 3

Here are the answers to chapter 3:


Chapter 3
Section A
1. Better-off, intellectual, larger, main; 2. roguish; 3. inimitable, sun-warmed;
4. amiable, octogenarian; 5. worm-eaten, old, outrageous;
6. black, beady, pronounced; 7. unsuspecting / obliging; 8. juicy
9. outside, strange, threatening, sheltered
Section B
1. at, of; 2. in; 3. to, at; 4. in; 5. down, on; 6. to; 7. on; 8. on; 9. for; 10. for
Section D
1. a difficult or unpleasant experience.
2. without much flesh; thin and fit
3. to make someone love you
4. to have a mind and body full of life and energy; to be lively
5. a person that you can easily persuade to do something, especially to give you money
6. to make no progress or have no success
7. to be forgotten because it happened such a long time ago
8. not to use too much of something