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Unit European Citizens

Answer Key

I. Writing
Activity 4 a Key
John IS playing the guitar on the bank of the river. The guitar IS quite old. It
ISNT raining, so the young man ISNT holding a coloured umbrella.
They ARE happy because their business IS very successful. ARE they sad?
They ARENT sad. They ARE laughing out loud.
Jane IS a famous librarian. IS she in a university? No, she ISNT in a university.
She IS young and talented at working with people and books.
Tom says: I AM 35 years old and I AM from London. AM I a native English?
No, I AM NOT. But I AM very good at expressing myself in English.
Ann ISNT old and ugly, but young and pretty. Her long hair IS curly and little
fair. IS she wearing a blue dress? No, she ISNT. Her dress IS pink.
The player IS on the field. IS he playing football? No, he ISNT. He IS wearing
white clothes and blue helmet. He IS playing his favourite game.
The man thinks: AM I drinking hot tea or coffee? I AM NOT drinking tea.
Coffee IS the best in the morning. A big cup IS always welcome. Its taste and
flavour ARE unforgettable. ARE you drinking a cup of coffee right now?
Activity 5 Key
a) The young man is riding his modern bike in the deep forest practicing
extreme sports.
b) The two happy children are playing one-to-one basketball in the school yard
every day.
c) That tall man is practicing yoga on the rocky mountain every sunny mornig.
d) The funny woman is resting up in a tree and enjoying a glass of red wine.
e) Four old friends are having lots of fun at a picnic in the biggest park in town.
f) Two young and beautiful women are walking home on the empty street in the
late afternoon.
g) A middle-aged man is jogging in the deserted park very early in the sunny
morning.
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II. Listening
Activity 1 Text
Ozer is a middle-aged doctor from Istanbul. He works in a hospital where he
takes care of many pacients. He is married and he has 2 children: a boy of 12
and a girl of 10. He works long hours and night sifts too, but he always spends
the weekend with his family. His children want to play with their father in the
park or to go together at the cinema and in the malls. Ozer sometimes goes in a
trip with his family to Kusadasi seaside resort, where they have a summer
house. They love to spend time together.

Rodolfo is a young student from Barcelona who still lives with his parents in a
flat near Plaza Catalunya. He studies business administration at university
although his mother wanted him to become a doctor and his father hoped he
would follow journalism. In his free time, Rodolfo likes going out with his friends,
especially in summer. They go to the beach and swim in the blue Mediterranean
sea and at night they go to clubs where they dance and have fun till morning.

Maria Grazia is a teacher from Arezzo who works with secondary school
students from her hometown. She is rather tall and quite fit because she goes to
the gym twice a week after work. She has long black curly hair which she keeps
sometimes in a bun. When she was young, her hair was fair and she kept it
short, but with age she changed her look. Maria Grazia likes going to the beauty
saloons where she has her hair cut, dyed or dressed for parties.

Otilia is a student from Ploiesti who studies petrol engineering at the university
from her home city and her intention is to work in the petrol industry after
graduation. In her free time, Otilia likes volunteering and doing different social
activities. She usually spends her time with children from hospital helping them
smile and forget for a while about their illness. In the past she volunteered
helping old people with their shopping lists and in the future she hopes to go to
Africa for half a year and be a volunteer for the Red Cross International.
Listening Activity 1 Key
1 - b; 2 - c; 3 - a; 4 - c.
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Listening
Activity 2 Text
During the Grundtvig project meeting held in Ploiesti, Romania, teachers and
students from Italy, Spain and Turkey visited their Romanian partner institution
and they all worked together taking part in the activities organised. In the first
day they visited the school where the host students presented a complex show
with traditional music and dances. Next day they went into a trip to Bucharest,
the capital city of Romania, where they visited the Parliament which is the
second biggest administrative building in the world. After that they went to the
mountain where they visited the Draculas castle and took part in the annual fair
organised by Transylvanian shepherds in autumn. There, teachers and students
ate traditional food and listened to traditional music while communicating with
people around and exchanging opinions about their cultures and traditions. On
Monday, back to school, European teachers held English lessons with the
Romanian and guest students and in the afternoon all students involved in the
project worked in teams and created PPT materials about the culture and
traditions in their own countries, then they delivered the presentations in front of
a large audience. The next day they went to the mountains, took the cable car
to 2,300 m high and hiked on the Bucegi plateau to the Cross from Caraiman
and back. Before going home, they visited also the Ialomicioara cave, which is
one of the most spectacular caves from my country. Next day everybody visited
the Slanic salt mine where they could admire the 54 m-high cave cut by people
in the salt mountain. Back to school students were involved in practical activities
and, among other things, they prepared different types of pizza specific to their
countries and learned how to make cocktails from fruit juices with different
densities. At the closing ceremony of the project meeting, the guest teachers
and students received certificates of attendance and had the farewell dinner
together. It was one of the greatest experiences they have ever had.
Listening Activity 2 Key
a four; b show; c shepherds; d culture and traditions; e cable car; f
pizza and cocktails; g - attendance

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Listening
Activity 3 Text
People from Turkey have different customs and traditions. They like drinking
black tea all day long and no matter the occasion along with smoking nargile.
You can easily be invited to have a tea in their house due to their well-known
hospitality. Their food is very tasty especially the kebabs which are of many
kinds and prepared in different ways. You can find only in Turkey the finest
baklava with pistachio and the most aromatic Turkish delight both being
known as traditional Turkish desserts. They are very friendly people and making
friends has never been difficult for them. They like socialising while drinking tea
and watching Turkish soap operas. Many of them like football too and they are
fans of their local football teams. They also like negociating prices in bazaars.

People from Catalonia are very friendly and they like making friends from all
over the world. They love their holidays and they make the most of their free
time. Their favourite past time is going out with their friends, either to watch
football matches (everybody supports FC Barcelona especially when this team
plays against their rival Real Madrid), or to have dinner and spend the night in a
club dancing and socialising. They are famous all over the world for their fiestas
when they bring huge puppets on the streets in processions and build human
towers even with 12 floors after serious training which lasts all year round.
Proud men, women, children, young and old - the whole community take part in
building human towers and it represents a great achievement for all of them.

People from Italy are very famous for their taste in wine and for their high
quality Tuscan wine known all over the world. But more famous than wine there
is the Italian pizza which is prepared in different ways and with a wide range of
ingredients. Moreover, pasta are as famous as pizza and some are homemade
pasta which adds flavour to the final product. Pasta, spagetti, tortelini, fussili are
only a few of the types of pasta Italians know to prepare deliciously. They are
also known for the leather products they manufacture and also for their clothes,
the Italian brands being the most famous in the world. Also the Italian perfumes
and body care products are sold in all countries and everybody wants to use
them.
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People from Romania have lots of traditions and a very rich culture which they
continue to preserve for the next generations and to present to foreigners
coming to visit their country. The beautiful traditional clothes are worn by people
when dancing and singing and it should be mentioned that each region of the
country has unique traditional clothes with certain patterns, handmade sewing
and specific colours representing symbols. Furthermore, they have specific and
unique traditions related to Christmas and Easter (such as caroling on
Christmas and dyeing boiled eggs in red or painting them in many colours on
Easter). Their traditional food (sarmale with mamaliga) and homemade
alcoholic drinks (palinka) are famous among the tourists who want to try
everything when they visit Romania.
Listening Activity 3 Key
a T; b T; c F; d F; e T; f - T; g F; h T.

III. Reading
Activity 1 Key
1 c; 2 b; 3 a; 4 c; 5 c.
Reading Activity 2 Key
1 B; 2 A; 3 C; 4 A; 5 B; 6 C; 7 A; 8 A.

Tags: verb TO BE, expressions THERE IS/ THERE ARE, adjectives,

introducing people, describing people.

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