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Key to Winter holidays activities 1. Rephrase the following sentences so that the negative expression comes first. You might need to make some changes.

a Rarely do you see such an... b Seldom have we met a .... c Under no circumstances should you wander... d At no time did I leave... e Not until the police came would they confess... f On nobody could she rely except him g Nowhere could the keys be found h Not only did we run into fog but it also began to rain

2. Rewrite the following sentences, replacing the clauses of time or reason with an ing form. a Seeing that she wa on the verge of tears I changed .... b Having been held up in the rush hour traffic he arrived rather late c The weather being unsettled we decided not to venture... d Having heard about the hijack on the news I phoned... e The luggage having been unloaded we all disappeared... f Not having been given the flight number it was rather difficult for me to find out... g Approaching the final bend the car skidded... h Contracts having been exchanged, you will be... i Being unwilling to offer.... j Having received his last minute instructions he ....

3. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense to express the future. a will see/gets b are to report/comes up c am driving/steps off d will give/have had e arent to go/have tidied f will have done/get g arrives/is meeting/will not need h are you doing/is coming/leaves/am trying 4. Complete the sentences by using each of the verbs twice, in two different tenses (two different meanings). Use the correct simple or continuous form in each case. has applied / have never Lockheed / has been seeing / have been depending / has been applying / has held / have seen / have been fitting / has depended have been looping / have been holding / have fitted

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5. Read the text and fill in the missing information with ONE suitable word

Advertising In its simplest sense the word 'advertising' means drawing attention to something' , or notifying or informing somebody of something. You can advertise by word of mouth, quite informally and locally and without incurring great expense. But if you want to inform a large number of people about something, you might need to advertise in the more usual sense of the word, by public announcement. If you put a notice in a local newsagent's shop, design a poster or take some space in a local newspaper, you are likely to bring the information you wish to communicate to the attention of more people than if you simply pass the word around friends and neighbours. You could go further and distribute leaflets as well, get someone to carry a placard around, even talk on local radio and arrange a publicity stunt. However, you might not be satisfied to simply convey certain facts and leave it at that. You might wish to add a bit of emphasis or even to exaggerate the facts by appealing to people's emotions. And this is of course where all the controversy about advertising in its current form arises.
Advertising as Communication by Gillian Dyer

The eldest of these, and Bilbos favourite, was young Frodo Baggins. When Bilbo was ninety-nine he adopted Frodo as his son/heir and brought him to live at Bag End. Bilbo and Frodo happened to have the same birthday, September 22nd. You had better come and live here, Frodo my lad, said Bilbo one day; and then we can celebrate our birthday parties comfortably together. Twelve more years passed. Each year the Bagginses had given very lively combined birthday-parties at Bag End.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

6. Decide whether the following expressions are use with do or make. Make: a suggestion, an offer, a profit, an excuse, an attempt, money, fun, sure, a choice, a decision, room for, the best of, use of, a complaint, a mistake, certain, a journey, an effort, an arrangement, an enquiry, the most of, a discovery.

7. Join the two sentences using relative pronouns. Remember to put comas where necessary. Toledo, which gets very cold in summer, is a very fine city to visit. You lent me a tent which was damaged a storm which you heard about on the news. The woman who lives next door bought an Old English Sheepdog that barks all night.

Generalitat de Catalunya Escola Oficial dIdiomes de Viladecans Departament dAngls Cinqu

The price of petrol, which rose only last month, is going up again. We rented a cottage from a man who has written a novel which has become a bestseller. The letters which I asked you to type for me are full of careless errors. The zoos most famous giant panda, whose name was Chi Chi, has died. The record that I told you about, which has been produced by a completely new method, will be released next week.

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