Упражнения по английскому языку Dealing with unfamiliar words (apartment, fancy, magnetic, permission, rotate, admire, constant, discard, layer, pollute, visible) (10 класс)

Dealing with unfamiliar words

Exercise 1.

Replace the underlined words with the correct form in the box. You may need to make other changes.

apartment fancy magnetic permission rotate

1) My father explained to us how the earth moves in a circle around a fixed central point once every 24 hours.

2) I played with a toy that attracts iron or steel objects towards it which was really fun.

3) My mother didn’t buy us expensive and fashionable clothes when we were children.

4) Most parents won’t allow their children to go out late at night.

5) They moved from one set of rooms on the floor of a building to another all through her childhood.

Exercise 2.

Complete the text with the correct form of the words in the box.

admire constant discard layer pollute visible

The Glass Castle is a book with many (1) __________ at times documentary, at times heartbreaking autobiography, sad but often extremely funny. In it Jeannette Walls relates the story of her childhood, and life on the road with her penniless parents. They are attracted to life a long way from the cities, where the streets are (2) __________ with the rubbish that has been (3) __________ by people who have so many things they do not know what to do with. In contrast, Jeannette’s family has nothing. But a(n) (4) __________ theme of the book is the love that Jeannette has for her parents. In particular it is about the difficult relationship she has with her father. At one point he promises his daughter he will build her a “glass castle” which will be (5) __________ for miles around – one of the many promises he fails to keep. But in spite of everything she continues to (6) __________ him.