PRACTICE UNIT 1.

( REINFORCEMENT)
Vocabulary
1 Choose the correct answer.
1. Taste this ice cream. The flavour / diet / vitamin is amazing.
2. Get a good nights sleep or you wont have the fat / calcium / strength to run in
the race tomorrow.
3. Fruit and vegetables are extremely nutritious / unfit / exhausted.
4. If you want to be healthy, you should eat crisps / protein / fast food.
5. Youll ruin your fat / iron / appetite for dinner if you eat sweets now.
2 Match the words in A to the definitions in B.
A
B
1. recover
a.
weighing more than you should
2. overweight
b.
the desire to eat
3. appetite
c.
get better
4. nutritious
d.
extremely tired
5. diet
e.
the type of food a person eats
6. unfit
f.
good for you to eat
7. physical strength
g.
not in good shape
8. exhausted
h.
the bodys ability to do things
3 Complete the sentences with words from Exercise 2.
1. Fruit and vegetables are more than sweets and cakes.
2. I hope that you will quickly from your operation.
3. Wendy should stop eating so much. Shes .
4. I stayed up all night studying for an exam. Im .
5. Our dog is always looking for something to eat. Hes got an enormous
.
6. Tim never exercises or plays sport. Thats why hes so .
7. Its important to eat a healthy .
8. I cant lift this heavy box. Ive got no .
4 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets. Use
the prefixes multi-, under-,
over-, pre-, un-, dis-, im- or in-.
1. After he fell, he was in terrible (comfort).
2. Its (possible) to eat that whole thing. Its huge!
3. What is this? It smells awful and looks (edible).
4. Its (healthy) to eat sweets.
5. The (packaged) vegetables have been washed.
6. Many doctors recommend that their patients take a
(vitamin) every day.
7. Michelle is (weight). She needs to start eating more.

8. Harry, youve got to stop eating so much. Youre (weight).

Choose the sentence that is closer in meaning to the original sentence.
1. I prefer very spicy food.
a. I like food with a strong flavour.
b. I like fast food.
2. A nutritious diet includes food with plenty of vitamins, iron, calcium and protein.
a. A good diet is a balanced diet.
b. A good diet helps you lose weight.
3. Since last week, I havent been hungry enough for anything more than a light
meal.
a. Ive lost my appetite.
b. Ive had a quick recovery.
4. Linda misses a lot of school because she is in poor health.
a. Linda is watching her weight.
b. Linda is unfit and is often ill.
6 Match A to B to form sentences.
A
1. Ken is ill. I hope he has a
2. My aunt cant work because she is in
3. To be healthy, eat a
4. Thats too much food. Id prefer a
5. Dress warmly. You dont want to
6. Eat small meals and you wont

B
a. balanced diet.
b. quick recovery.
c. catch a cold.
d. poor health.
e. light meal.
f. gain weight.

Grammar
1 Choose the correct answer.
1. When you woke up this morning, I already made / had already made / have
already made breakfast.
2. Had the food / Has the food / Will the food have already burned by the time you
arrived?
3. In ten years time, everyone has forgotten / had forgotten / will have forgotten
about his book.
4. He had been / has been / will have been in poor health for years before he
became a vegetarian.
5. I hadnt had / havent had / wont have had a good appetite ever since my last
illness.
6. We have finished / will have finished / had finished our preparations by the time
the cooking competition begins.
2 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the Present Perfect
Simple, Past Perfect Simple or
Future Perfect Simple.
1. Im trying to change my diet. I (not have) any fast

food for at least a month.

2. you (finish) baking
the birthday cake before the guests arrive?
3. He wont be at school tomorrow because he (catch)
a terrible cold.
4. By the time I got to the restaurant, it (already
close).
5. You (not lose) enough weight to fit into those
trousers by next week.
6. they (hear) about the
film before you told them about it?
7. By the time you called, I (already recover) from the
accident.
8. He looks terrible. How long he
(be) in poor health?
3 Choose the correct answer.
1. I have been trying / had been trying to save money, but I havent succeeded.
2. He has been working / had been working for hours, and the house is finally
clean.
3. She hadnt been eating / hasnt been eating well for a long time before she
became ill.
4. They finished writing the cookbook last month. They had been working / have
been working on it for a year.
5. You are unfit because you havent been exercising / hadnt been exercising.
4 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the Present Perfect
Continuous or Past Perfect Continuous.
1. Hes an expert in art history. He (work) in a
museum for ten years and he loves his job.
2. Shes upset because she (not get) good marks at
school.
3. Dan (not plan) to eat the whole cake, but it was so
delicious, he couldnt stop.
4. Im worried about Shelly. She (catch) one cold after
another.
5. By the time he came home, the children (sleep) for
hours.
6. We (work) all day, but were stopping now.
5 Complete the questions in the dialogue with the correct perfect tense. Pay
attention to the words in bold.
Dan: 1.
all morning?
Ellen: Ive been watching cooking programmes on TV.
Dan: 2.
?

Ellen: Ive been interested in cooking since last year. I went to a doctor and he told
me that my diet was terrible.
Dan: 3.
before you went to the doctor?
Ellen: No, I hadnt been feeling ill, but I was exhausted all the time.
Dan: 4.
?
Ellen: I had been eating a lot of fast food.
Dan: 5.
lately?
Ellen: Lately, Ive been eating more home-cooked meals and salads.
Dan: 6.
?
Ellen: My mum and I have been preparing these meals together.
MORE PRACTICE .UNIT 1
Vocabulary
1 Complete the sentences with the words below.
unfit protein nutritious diet recover strength appetite exhausted
1. Sweets and chips arent .
2. He eats a lot because hes got a big .
3. Youre . Why dont you start running?
4. When you arent feeling well, a nutritious diet will help you
.
5. If you dont go to sleep, youll be .
6. A vegetarian doesnt include meat.
7. Cheese, eggs and meat are good sources of .
8. Hercules had the of ten men.
2 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets. Use
the prefixes un-, dis-, im-,
in-, multi-, under-, over- or pre-.
1. Its (polite) to talk with food in your mouth.
2. Would you like to buy this (purpose) cleaning spray? You
can use it on anything in your home.
3. Im sorry, your answer is (correct). Would you like to try
again?
4. My father takes the (ground) train to work every day.
5. I stayed (night) at my friends house.
6. Could you please (lock) the door for me? I forgot my keys.
7. I (agree) with you. I like the other one better.
8. In order to reserve your tickets, you must (pay).
3
1.
2.
3.

Choose the correct word to form a collocation.

lose recovery / weight / health
balanced diet / vitamin / strength
watch your weight / flavour / appetite

4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

light iron / recovery / meal

quick recovery / appetite / weight
catch health / a diet / a cold
poor calcium / health / strength
gain vitamins / iron / weight

4 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the collocations from
Exercise 3.
1. Leanne because she went swimming in the middle of the
winter.
2. My grandmother got so thin that her doctors put her on a high fat diet so she
would .
3. Susan when she was ill.
4. I dont like eating a lot at night. Lets order a .
5. Mr Jones is very old and is in . He rarely gets out of bed.
6. A consists of all the food groups.
7. You should if you dont want to get fat.
8. Paul was ill, but he made a .
Grammar
1 Choose the correct answer.
1. I to Paris many times, but this trip is the most exciting.
a. have been
c. will have been
b. had been
d. was
2. Tim couldnt do the homework because he his books the day before.
a. have lost
c. didnt lose
b. had lost
d. will have lost
3. They had read the book before they the film.
a. saw
c. will have seen
b. had seen
d. has seen
4. By the time you read this letter, I the country.
a. had left
c. will have left
b. have left
d. left
5. He cooking before he got the job.
a. hasnt studied
c. hadnt studied
b. wont have studied
d. didnt study
2 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the Present Perfect
Simple, Past Perfect Simple or Future Perfect Simple.
1. I (already move) out of the city when you arrived in 2001.
2. John (not read) the book by next week.
3. The dogs (not eat) yet. Can you feed them?
4. The film starts in an hour. they
(finish) their homework by then?
5. How much money the children already

 (spend) on sweets?
3 Complete the sentences with the words in brackets. Use the Present Perfect
Simple or Present Perfect Continuous.
1. Why did you go to the doctor?
Because
. (my leg / hurt / all week)
2. Do you like Martin?
I dont know. I
. (just meet / him)
3. Did you go out with Janis yesterday?
No, I
. (not see / her / for a week)
4. Why is his electricity bill so high?
Because he
. (use / the air conditioner / 24 hours a day)
4 Complete the sentences with the verbs below. Use the affirmative or negative
of the Present Perfect
Continuous or Past Perfect Continuous.
swim do shop cook
1. I hope youre hungry. I all day!
2. Robert well at school before his parents hired a tutor.
3. We for hours when we decided to give up. We werent
going to find the jacket we wanted.
4. Your hair is wet. you ?

Choose the correct answer.

1.
2.
3.
4.

So youre finally here! I waited / have been waiting / had waited for you since ten oclock.
Why wont you have come / didnt you come / havent you come to Sams party last night?
Im not hungry. I will have had / have had / have been having dinner.
Dan left the football team because he has been suffering / had been suffering / has suffered from poor
health.
Hes feeling better now and may return.
5. By this time next year, they will have travelled / have travelled / have been travelling to India.

Complete the passage with the verbs in brackets. Use the correct perfect tense or the Past Simple.
There may
be more than one correct answer.
For years, doctors (1) (tell) young people to stop eating fast food. Scientists
(2) (discover) a long time ago that fast food contains too much fat and salt. Because of
that, schools everywhere (3) (recently change) their lunch menus to make them healthier.
But for UK teenager Ashley Clarke, its a different story. Ashley (4) (faint) several times a
day for years before doctors discovered that he had a rare medical condition. What was the solution to Ashleys
problem? To his amazement, doctors (5) (prescribe) a diet of junk food! They (6)
(tell) Ashley that he needed the extra salt in food like hamburgers and crisps to keep his
blood pressure up. Before this recommendation, Ashley (7) (be) on a healthy, nutritious
diet. But ever since then, he (8) (enjoy) the food

Complete the passage with the words below.

caught a cold recover exhausted balanced meals strength nutritious iron lose your appetite vitamin
Do you find that no matter how much you sleep, youre often (1) ? Do you frequently
miss school because you have (2) and it takes you a long time to (3)

 from every illness? It could be that your diet isnt (4) enough.
In a recent study, it was discovered that more than half the young people in the UK werent eating (5)
. They rarely consumed green vegetables or fruit, so they didnt get enough
(6) C. In addition, more than 13 per cent of the teenagers in the UK had very low
levels of (7) in their blood because they didnt eat enough red meat or meat substitutes.
This causes anemia, which makes you (8) so you eat even less nutritious food. The end
result is that you wont have the (9) to do everyday activities, like walking up the stairs
to your next lesson.