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6.3 Vocabulary and skills development
Exercise 2
Audio 6.11
1 Five thousand people visited this gallery last month.
2 Fifty thousand people visit this gallery every year.
Exercise 3
Audio 6.12
Present and past simple verbs
Regular past simple verbs can sound very similar to their present simple forms.
I walk every day. ➞ I walked every day.
They love it. ➞ They loved it.
We want it. ➞ We wanted it.
1 Regular past simple verbs end with three different sounds:
/t/: walked /d/: loved /ɪd/: wanted
2 Time expressions can help you decide if the verb is past or present.
I moved house in 2012. (past)
I walk a lot these days. (present)
Exercise 4a & b
Audio 6.13
1 cooked
2 carried
3 change
4 helped
5 wait
6 listened
7 chatted
8 dance
9 enjoyed
Exercise 5a
Audio 6.14
1 My friends cooked a great meal for me last night.
2 A lot of people at work listen to the radio these days.
3 I helped my parents a lot when I was a child.
4 We dance a lot when we go out.
5 I waited a long time for the bus last Monday.
6 I washed the car carefully, it was really dirty.
Exercise 6b
Audio 6.15
From a distance, Inhotim looks like typical Brazilian countryside, but as you get closer, you notice something a bit unusual. There are hundreds of tourists walking through the fields and gardens! This beautiful place started as a farm and for many years only farmers lived here. They worked in the fields and looked after the animals. But that all changed in the 1990s when billionaire Bernardo Paz decided to use the space for something very different. He created a 'Disneyland for art lovers'! Today, people travel from around the world and they look at the art. The spaces of Inhotim include more than 500 sculptures by Brazilian and international artists. As well as being important culturally, it is really important for the local area because Inhotim creates a lot of jobs – 1,000 people work here in the museum, gardens and restaurant. Although it is quite far from the usual tourist spots of Brazil, it is now a very successful and popular ‘outdoor museum’. In 2011, nearly a quarter of a million people visited Inhotim. Mr Paz believes there will soon be a million visitors a year.
Exercise 10a & b
Audio 6.16
S1 I visited Inhotim last week. My main reason for going was the art, and the sculptures were very interesting. The gardens were quite nice, too. However, the restaurants were really expensive. It was a bit difficult to find, too, and the journey was quite long.
S2 I travelled to Inhotim a couple of months ago. I thought the sculptures in the park were a bit boring, actually, but the gardens were really beautiful. The food was quite good at the restaurants. Oh, and the journey to the park was really long and I was very tired when I arrived.
Exercise 11
Audio 6.17
1 ... the sculptures were very interesting.
2 The gardens were quite nice, too.
3 I thought the sculptures in the park were a bit boring ...
4 ... the journey to the park was really long ...