Listening 1 Track 39 Listen to six speakers. Are the sentences true

11 Complete the conversation by adding the missing words from the box to the phrases in bold. 
shouldn't obvious you can surely is
A: Don't you ¹agree that voting should be compulsory like it is in Australia?
B: ²But it should be up to the individual. 
A: Why? ³Anyone see that politics affect our daily lives.
B: ⁴But we just let politicians get on with governing the country?
A: So ⁵what you're saying that we as individuals have no power?
B: ⁶But isn't it that we don't?
A: Well clearly we will have to agree to disagree.

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12 Put the words into the correct order to make sentences.
1 into / science / John / really / fiction / isn't
John really isn’t into science fiction.
2 I’m / short / of / big / a / stories / fan
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3 stand / I / punctuation / of / couldn't / lack / the
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4 thing / the / writing / The / love / his / I / about / is / humor
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5 I / What / their / main/ was / characters / liked / the / about / relationship
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6 couldn't / I / into / mood / get / the / just / right
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13 Underline the mistakes using the correction code. Then write the corrections.
1 (spelling) Dad is such an embarrasment on the dance floor.
embarrassment
2 (punctuation) If you knew you were going to be late why didn't you call? _______________________________________________.
3 (word order) I feel as though I will never get this cold over.
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4 (wrong word) I thought the documentary was really interested.
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5 (verb tense) We lived in the same house since 2005.
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6 (grammar) I will never get used to drive on the left.
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