UNIT 3

1. Grammar: The Future

Will / Be Going To
1. A: Why are you holding a piece of paper?
B: I (write)
a letter to my friends back home in Texas.

2. A: I'm about to fall asleep. I need to wake up!

B: I (get)
you a cup of coffee. That will wake you up.

3. A: I can't hear the television!

B: I (turn)
it up so you can hear it.

4. We are so excited about our trip next month to France. We

(visit)
Paris, Nice and Grenoble.

5. Sarah (come)

to the party. Oliver (be)

there as

well.
6. Ted: It is so hot in here!
Sarah: I (turn)
the air-conditioning on.

7. I think he (be)

8. After I graduate, I (attend)

the next President of the United States.

medical school and become a

doctor. I have wanted to be a doctor all my life.

9. A: Excuse me, I need to talk to someone about our hotel room. I am afraid
it is simply too small for four people.
B: That man at the service counter (help)
you.

10. As soon as the weather clears up, we (walk)

down to the

beach and go swimming.

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Put the verbs into the correct form (will, going to, simple present or present
progressive).
1.

I love London. I (probably / go)

there next year.

w ill proba

2.

Our train (leave)

at 4:47.

3.

What (wear / you)

4.

I haven't made up my mind yet. But I think I (find)

at the party tonight?

nice in my mum's wardrobe.

5.
This is my last day here. I (go)

back to England tomorrow.

6.

Hurry up! The conference (begin)

7.

My horoscope says that I (meet)

8.

Look at these big black clouds! It (rain)

9.

Here is the weather forecast. Tomorrow (be)

10.

something

in 20 minutes.
an old friend this week.
.
dry and sunny.

What does a blonde say when she sees a banana skin lying just a few
metres in front of her? - Oh dear! I (slip)
!

1. Watch out! This car _____________ (explode) any minute.

2. Can you remind me of my visit to the dentist tomorrow? _______ (I, forget,
certainly)

3. The bus is late. I have a feeling ___________ (not arrive) before 5 o'clock.

4. Look at the engine! _______________ (never, we, repair) on time!

5. Let's stop by the supermarket. _____________ (be, Coke, cheaper)

6. Jane knows maths well. ___________ (help,she) you.

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Will / Be Going To
1.
Mark: What are you doing with those scissors?
Beth: I (cut)
that picture of the ocean out of the travel
magazine.
Mark: What (you, do)
Beth: I (paint)

with it?
a watercolor of the ocean for my art class, and

I thought I could use this photograph as a model.

2.
Mark: (you, do)

me a favor, Sam?

Sam: Sure, what do you want me to do?

Mark: I (change)
the broken light bulb in the lamp above the
dining room table. I need someone to hold the ladder for me while I am up
there.
Sam: No problem, I (hold)
it for you.

3.
Gina: Where are you going?
Ted: I (go)
to the store to pick up some groceries.
Gina: What (you, get)
Ted: I (buy)

?
some milk, some bread, and some coffee.

4.
John: Wow, it's freezing out there.
Jane: I (make)
some coffee to warm us up. Do you want a
piece of pie as well?
John: Coffee sounds great! But I (have)

dinner with some friends

later, so I'd better skip the pie.

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Jane: I (go)

to dinner tonight too, but I'm having a piece of pie

anyway.
5.
Frank: I heard you're taking a Spanish class at the community college.
Tom: Yeah, I (go)
to Guatemala next spring and I thought
knowing a little Spanish would make the trip easier.
Frank: I (visit)
my brother in Marseilles next year. Maybe I
should take a French class.
Tom: I have a course catalog in the other room. I (go)

get it,

and we can see whether or not they're offering a French course next
semester.

1.

you

2. Next year
3.

you

FUTURE FORMS(will,-ing,going to)

complete the sentences
(close) the door for me, please ?
(be) wonderful for oranges.
(join) the tennis club, as you told me ?

4. I can't see you tomorrow. I

5.Yes, I think I

(have) on of those sea food pizzas.

6. You look horrible. I think you

7. Yesterday my son said: 'I'
8. You

(meet) somebody very important.

(be) ill.
(be) an astronaut when I get old'.

(pass) your exams if you don't study.

9. That car is going too fast I think it

(crash)

Simple Present / Simple Future

1.
Michael: After you (leave)

work, will you please drop by the

grocery store and pick up some milk and bread?

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Marie: No problem, I (pick)

up the groceries and be home by 6

o'clock.
Michael: Great. You will probably get home before I (do)

2.
Ari: By the time we (get)

to the movie theater, the tickets are

going to be sold out.

Sarah: Don't worry. I told Jane we might be arriving just before the movie
(start)
. She (buy)
our tickets and meet us in the
lobby.
Ari: That place is huge! We (find, never)
lobby.
Sarah: Calm down, we (meet)

3.
Terry: If the weather (be)

her in that crowded

each other near the entrance.

good tomorrow, maybe we should go

to the beach.
Jennifer: I have a better idea. If it (be)
beach; and if it (rain)

nice out, we'll go to the

, we'll see a movie.

Terry: I guess we will have to wait until we (get)

up in the

morning to find out what we are going to do.

4.
Max: What are you going to do tomorrow after work?
Sean: I (meet)
some friends at the cafe across the street. Would
you like to come along?
Max: No thanks! My brother is coming to town and I (pick)

him up

from the airport at 7 o'clock.

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Sean: We (be, probably)

at the cafe until 9 o'clock. Why don't you

join us after you (pick)

him up.

Max: Sounds good. We (see)

5.
Lucy: I (call)

you around 8 o'clock.

you as soon as I arrive in Dublin.

Dwain: If I am not there when you (call)

, make sure to leave a

message.
Lucy: I will. And please don't forget to water my plants and feed the cat.
Dwain: I promise I (take)
care of everything while you are in
Ireland.
2. Vocabulary: household chores
Household Chores
Click on (A) for Audio. HACIENDO CLIC + CONTROL TE ENLAZA CON LA
PRONUNCIACIN

In the kitchen (A)

sweep the floor (A)
vacuum the
floor (A)
mop the floor (A)
scrub the floor (A)
set the table (A)
clear the table (A)
wipe off the
table (A)
put the food
away (A)
wash the dishes (A)
rinse the dishes (A)
dry/wipe the
dishes (A)
clean the sink (A)

Other rooms (A)

Outside (A)

answer the
phone/door (A)

check the
mail(box) (A)

get the
phone/door (A)

hang out the

clothes (A)

open the
door/window (A)

sweep the
porch (A)

close/shut the
door (A)
wash the
windows (A)
pick up the
toys (A)
clean up your
room (A)
clean up this
mess (A)

cut the grass (A)

mow the
lawn (A)
water the
flowers (A)
turn on the
sprinklers (A)
trim the
hedges (A)
weed the
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take out the
garbage/trash (A)

make the bed (A)

move the
furniture (A)
dust the
shelves (A)
clean the tub (A)
do the
laundry (A)

garden (A)
fix the roof (A)
shovel the
snow (A)
scrape the
windshield (A)
wax the car (A)

TOPIC: Housework and household chores 1

Choose the best response to complete each of the following sentences:

1. My mother asked me to do the

2. My father asked me to

(dishes/plates).

(make/do) my bed.

3. My brother asked me to

(wet/water) the plants.

4. My grandmother asked me to

(cleanse/clean) the litter box.

5. My roommate asked me to do the

6. My wife asked me to

(clothes/laundry).

(mow/cut) the lawn.

7. My boyfriend asked me to

(vaccuum/vacate) the living room.

8. My mother asked me to

(scrub/scrape) the toilet.

9. My parents asked me to

(tidy/tighten) up my room.

10. My grandfather asked me to

(take/make) out the trash.

AQU TIENES UN LISTENING SOBRE EL TEMA

http://www.esl-lab.com/vocab/v-chores.htm

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3. Reading: multiple choice
Plastic Bags

Twelve years ago, oceanographer Captain Charlie Moore was skippering his
yacht the Alguita in the North Pacific. He sailed into a mass of floating
plastic rubbish which took him and his crew a week to cross. This floating
rubbish dump is now called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and doubles the
size of the USA.
The United Nations says there are now 18,000 pieces of plastic in every
square kilometre of sea everywhere in the world. A walk along any beach
will give you some idea of the seriousness of plastic pollution.

The trouble is, when we throw out plastic with the trash, the plastic doesnt
go away. Plastic does not biodegrade. It photo degrades into smaller and
smaller particles which then enter the food chain. Plastics contain cancercausing chemicals such as vinyl chloride which travel along the food chain in
increasing concentrations and end up in our fish and chips, along with
hormone disruptors such as bisphenol A. Scientists try to tell us that we are
killing ourselves as well as other animals. At least 200 species are, as I
speak, being killed by plastic. Whales, dolphins, turtles and albatross
confuse floating plastic, especially shopping bags and six pack rings, with
jellyfish. A dead Minke whale, washed up on a Normandy beach, was found
to have eaten plastic bags from supermarkets and had died a dreadful
death.

8% of all the worlds oil production is for plastic. According to the United
States Environmental Protection Agency, companies manufacture 5 billion
plastic bags a year. Of all the plastic produced annually, half is for packaging
which gets thrown out with the trash a few minutes after purchase. And 10%
of all rubbish is plastic bags which take from 400 to 1000 years to degrade.
Less than one per cent of plastic bags are recycled and only 4% of all other
plastic waste, the reason being it is simply too expensive to do.

The same lobbies that work against electric vehicles and renewable
energies, put governments under pressure not to act against plastic
pollution. This is because plastic represents 8% of all the worlds oil
production. These lobbies, acting on behalf of oil companies, represent an
unsustainable approach to profit. To paraphrase the Cree Indian prophecy,
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only when we have wiped everything out will we realise that money cannot
be eaten.

Some countries have rebelled and banned plastic bags. And the first was
brave Bangladesh. Then China took the same decision and, according to
CNN Asia, saves itself 37 million barrels of oil a year. Botswana, Canada,
Israel, Kenya, Rwanda, Singapore and South Africa have also banned plastic
bags. Notice how many of the worlds richest countries are not on this list.
Its an absolute disgrace.

Alright, then. If we cant use plastic bags, how do we carry home the
shopping? Take a back pack or a folding shopping trolley. Change
supermarket to one that provides biodegradable bags, made from potato
starch for example. Use consumer power.

Personally speaking, what I need to find now, is a supermarket that sells

biodegradable bin liners, otherwise I still end up using plastic. I recently
spent a week in New Zealand on honeymoon and saw that everyone was
using special paper bin liners. I wish we did something similar here in Spain.

Think globally, act locally. A small Australian town is now one step ahead of
the rest of the world. The inhabitants of Bundanoon in New South Wales
have banned plastic bottles from the town. We need to follow their example
and eliminate plastic from our lives, take care of the earth and vote for
people we think will do the same.

1. The writer says that we can get an idea of how much plastic rubbish
there is in the oceans

A.

by looking at the sea.

B.

by taking a walk along any beach.

C.

by travelling across the USA.

D.

by sailing across the Pacific.

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2. The reader learns that toxic chemicals get into our food

A.

? when plastic becomes small enough to enter our food

chain.

B.

because other animals are being killed by plastic.

C.

because plastic does not biodegrade.

D.

from plastic bags from supermarkets.

3. In the last sentence of the third paragraph, what does 'it' refer to?

A.

plastic waste

B.

plastic bags

C.

recycling

D.

money

4. Which of the following best explains the Cree Indian prophecy?

A.

Money isn't food.

B.

Oil companies are polluting the earth.

C.

People are greedy.

D.

If we destroy our environment, we will destroy ourselves.

5. In the fifth paragraph the writer is angry because

A.
B.

? not many of the world's richest countries have banned

plastic bags.
?

Most of the countries are African.

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C.

countries aren't saving enough oil.

D.

not many countries have banned plastic bags.

6. What does the reader learn about New Zealand?

A.

The writer was on holiday there.

B.

The supermarkets don't have plastic bags.

C.

It is a nuclear free country.

D.

People use biodegradable bags for the rubbish.

7. In the final paragraph the writer advises us to

A.

take individual action.

B.

visit Australia.

C.

stop buying plastic bottles.

D.

stop voting.

Reading Comprehension
Cool Britannia
Cool Britannia is a term used in some media to describe the
contemporary culture of the United Kingdom, coined in the mid-1990s
and closely associated with the "New Labour" government of Tony
Blair. It is a pun on the title of the patriotic song "Rule Britannia".
The phrase "Cool Britannia" was first used in 1967 as a song title by
the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, but there is no connection between
that usage and the modern coining of the term. This seems to have
arisen from the description of London in Newsweek in late 1996 as
"coolest capital city on the planet." The phrase was coined shortly
after and widely used in the media and in advertising. The election of
Blair's government in 1997 on a platform of modernisation and with
Blair as a relatively young Prime Minister gave the idea fresh
currency. (There is a strong parallel between this and the catchphrase "Swinging London" during the early years of Harold Wilson's
Labour government.)

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To the extent that it had any real meaning, "Cool Britannia" referred
to the transient fashionable London scene, 1990s bands such as Blur,
Oasis, and later The Spice Girls, fashion designers and magazines. By
1998 The Economist was commenting that "many people are already
sick of the phrase," and by 2000 it was being used mainly in a
mocking or ironic way.
Similar terms for Wales and Scotland, "Cool Cymru" and "Cool
Caledonia" respectively, were coined but had next to no currency
whatsoever and to this day most people have never heard of them.
"Cool Britannia" was also a registered trade mark for one of Ben &
Jerry's ice-creams (vanilla with strawberries and chocolate-covered
shortbread), designed for the British market.

Questions about the text

1. The term was invented in the
1990s.
True.

False.

We don't know.

2. London was described as the

coolest city on the planet by
Newsweek in 1996.

3. Tony Blair introduced this phrase.

True.

False.

We don't know.

4. Many people got tired of this

phrase.
True.

True.
False.
False.
We don't know.
We don't know.
5. Similar names were introduced in
Wales and Scotland with a great

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success.

6. The phrase is also used as an icecream flavour in the UK.

True.
True.
False.
False.
We don't know.
We don't know.

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4. Writing: an informal letter

En la parte de writing del FCE, la segunda de las tareas puede consistir en la

elaboracin de una carta informal.
16.
AQU
17.
http://www.writing-lovers.com/informal_letter.html
18.
puedes ver varios ejemplos de muestra. Presta mucha atencin a la
distribucin de los prrafos y a pequeos detalles que, en principio, pueden parecer
menos importantes: saludos, despedidas, puntuacin, etc.
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20.
5. Use of English: open cloze
21.
En este ejercicio, que habitualmente es el segundo de la parte Use Of
English, hay que rellenar los huecos de un texto con la palabra adecuada.
22.
Ojo! No confundas este ejercicio con el de word formation. Aqu no se
trata de derivar palabras a partir de un trmino dado, sino simplemente de
rellenar huecos con pronombres, conjunciones, verbos modales, preposiciones y
verbos auxiliares.

23.
Read the following article and complete each gap with ONE
word:

Why Dogs Bark

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27.

25.
Thousands of years

By Fubrus

, humans began the process of domesticating the

dog and shaping what "being a dog" really means. Through careful selection and
breeding, an astonishing variety of dog breeds
been created. Desirable traits
have been selected for in various breeds that are of a benefit

humans. There

are some traits, however, that quickly become undesirable when expressed too
frequently. Barking is
example of a natural behaviour that is encouraged in
terms of guarding behaviour, but becomes a problem when the behaviour is
produced in excess. A recent health insurance investigation revealed
the
sound of a continually barking dog was cited as the most disruptive and stress
inducing noise
humans.

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30.
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Why Do Dogs Bark?

Barking, in addition to whining, howling and growling, is a dog's natural

means
communication. Barking is characterized by a series of short, sharp
sounds, that tend

vary little in tone or pitch. A dog's bark

signify territorial

protection, exertion of dominance, or expression of some need. Typically, barking is

"a means of communication triggered by a state

excitement." Being a natural

trait, barking is not considered a behavioural problem, until it is produced

excess.

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35.

Causes of Problem Barking

Problem barking has a variety of origins. Genetics does influence a dog's

tendency to bark. Certain breeds belonging
the terrier family are prone to more
frequent barking

breeds such as Greyhounds or Basenjis. Generally, however,

excess barking can exist in any breed of dog. The key to solving the problem of
inappropriate barking is to determine what external stimulus
triggering the
behaviour.

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37.

Improper confinement can be a major cause of problem barkers. Improper

confinement can include leaving a dog alone in
locked room, or in a dog crate
(a tool used for housebreaking and other behavioural modifications).
improper confinements can include restricted tethering outdoors, or even an
enclosed yard without proper shelter from the elements. Such confinement can
cause frustration
a dog and cause it to bark excessively. Closely
associated

improper confinement is lack of exercise as a cause of excess

barking. When a dog is not provided with adequate exercise, accumulated

energy
released through barking.

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Environmental sounds can

trigger barking. These sounds include such

things as the barking of other dogs, the sound of passing cars, strange voices,
thunder, and mechanical noises such
the ringing of the phone. Noises can
initiate barking at different times of the day. A dog may not bark at accustomed
sounds
the day, but at night may be incited to a volley of barking, much to
the chagrin of the neighbours, by the slightest of noises. Other causes of problem
barking can include separation anxiety, or the temperament
the dog: an overaggressive animal may bark

the smallest provocation. A strongly territorial dog

may bark at any stranger, invited or uninvited, entering

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Solutions to Excess Barking

property.

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Excess barking can be a serious behavioural problem and can mean the
termination of the relationship
your dog or the dog itself if left untreated. The
following text includes information on how to solve your dog's problem barking
recommended by a vet.

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The first step in solving problem barking, is to determine

your dog is

barking in response to inadequate shelter or improper confinement. If this is the

case, the dog must be provided with a comfortable amount
space or supplied
with a doghouse if outdoor shelter is inadequate. Increasing the amount of exercise
given
your dog may also help.

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In the event your dog is barking

response to environmental noises, or

the barking is simply due to its temperament, behavioural modification methods

should be used. These methods can include reconditioning using a verbal
reprimand
as "No!", and leash correction. It should be noted however, that
you should never yell

your dog, as loud noises may encourage your pet to bark

more. Also keep in mind the punishment should be applied while the barking is
occurring,
order for your dog to associate the unwanted behaviour with the
punishment. Also remember to reward your dog

it stops barking.

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Indirect intervention methods can also be applied. These techniques can

range from spraying your dog with water while it is barking,
using noise
producing devices such as "Dog Stop" or "Barker Breaker," which emit loud
high frequency sounds that interrupt barking. These devices can be controlled by
the owner, or triggered
the dog's barking. In the event your dog is resistant
to

behavioural modifications, more drastic action can be taken in the form of

bark activated shock collars.

device is particularly effective when barking

occurs in the owner's absence. Shock collars, however, are recommended only after
other control measures
failed. A final resort, when all other behavioural
modification methods have been tried, and particularly when the dog's life is

question, is a vocal cordectomy (debarking). This surgical procedure involves

removal of all or part of
vocal cords.

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The key to solving the problem of excess barking in your dog begins with

understanding of what is causing this behaviour. Once you have determined a

cause,
have a greater chance of choosing the most effective solution (e.g.,
more exercise) or behavioural modification. Modifying such an instinctive and
natural behaviour
barking can be difficult, and may require considerable
patience, time, and hard work. Solutions, however, are possible, and worth
effort.

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6. Listening: sentence completion
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Tienes que completar la letra de una cancin de la que se han eliminado los
adjetivos y los adverbios. Tiene autocorreccin y ayuda (hint)
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http://mojamatura.net/images/stories/mojamatura-20/TomJones_CaptivatingEyes.htm
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