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42.4
Complete the crossword. What is the vertical word in grey?
1 competition in which people run, drive, etc.
2 the opposite of
win
3 a group of people who play together
4 a synonym for
outstanding
5 stop doing a regular activity
6 the leader of a team
7 someone who wins something
8 when you win a competition
9 the last part of a competition
10 the opposite of
winner
11 a type of sports competition
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42.5
Over to
you
Answer the questions. If possible, compare your answers with someone else.
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Have you ever taken part in a sports competition?
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Have you ever won anything?
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Have you ever been captain of a team?
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Have you ever come first, second or third in a race?
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Have you ever watched an individual or team in a final, at the game or on television?
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English Vocabulary in Use Pre-intermediate and Intermediate

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Books and films
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Books
I used to hate literature
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at school, but now I read a lot. I started off with fiction
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.
I read hundreds of novels
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, mostly thrillers
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and science fiction
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. My favourite author
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is John le Carré.
Recently, I’ve started reading quite a lot of biographies
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, and even some poetry
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. Two of my
favourite poets are Antonio Machado and Federico García Lorca. They both wrote poems in
the early 20
th
century.
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serious and important writing
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stories about the future
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stories about imaginary people and events
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someone who writes books
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fiction books
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stories of a person’s life, written by another person
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exciting stories, often about crime
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pieces of creative writing in short lines
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