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to Worksheets and Notes for Use – Part 1
Grammar
Skills
5
be: I am, I was, I
am being, I was being, I have been, been
he/she is, he/she was, he/she is
being, he/she was being, he/she has been,
been
go:
I go, I went, I am
going, I was going, I have been/gone, been/gone
he/she goes, he/she went, he/she is
going, he/she was going, he/she has
been/gone, been/gone
do:
I do, I did, I am
doing, I was doing, I have done, done
he/she does, he/she did, he/she is
doing, he/she was doing, he/she has
done, done
have:
I have, I had, I am
having, I was having, I have had, had
he/she has, he/she had, he/she is
having, he/she was having, he/she has
had, had
see:
I see, I saw, I am seeing,
I was seeing, I have seen, seen
he/she sees, he/she saw, he/she is
seeing, he/she was seeing, he/she has
seen, seen
eat:
I eat, I ate, I am
eating, I was eating, I have eaten, eaten
he/she eats, he/she ate, he/she is
eating, he/she was eating, he/she has
eaten, eaten
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Answers will vary.
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1. aren’t I? 2.
don’t you? 3. don’t I? 4. isn’t she? 5. haven’t they? 6. do I? 7. are you?
8. isn’t it? 9. hasn’t she? 10.
hasn’t he? 11. don’t you? 12. doesn’t it? 13. isn’t it?
14. does he? 15. hasn’t it? 16. doesn’t
he? 17. aren’t we? 18. doesn’t she?
19. have you? 20. haven’t you?
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1. are you? 2.
doesn’t she? 3. has she? 4. don’t we? 5. don’t they? 6. have we?
7. aren’t I? 8. are they? 9. is he?
10. doesn’t it? 11. haven’t they? 12. didn’t they?
13. isn’t he? 14. aren’t they? 15.
has it? 16. have I? 17. do we? 18. isn’t she?
19. haven’t they? 20. haven’t I?
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1. was I? 2. were
they? 3. didn’t he? 4. hadn’t I? 5. weren’t they? 6. didn’t it?
7. had you? 8. didn’t it? 9. did I?
10. had she? 11. wasn’t I? 12. was she?
13. hadn’t it? 14. did we? 15.
wasn’t she? 16. didn’t she? 17. had I? 18. did I?
19. hadn’t he? 20. didn’t he?
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1. were you? 2. had
he? 3. hadn’t they? 4. didn’t she? 5. wasn’t it? 6. didn’t you?
7. hadn’t we? 8. didn’t they? 9.
were you? 10. wasn’t it? 11. hadn’t they? 12. had
she? 13. was he? 14. didn’t we? 15.
hadn’t you? 16. weren’t we? 17. didn’t you?
18. weren’t we? 19. hadn’t it? 20.
didn’t they?
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1. can’t I? 2.
can’t they? 3. will it? 4. mustn’t it? 5. mustn’t I? 6. won’t I? 7. can she?
8. will I? 9. mustn’t they? 10. will
he? 11. can I? 12. won’t he? 13. mustn’t you?
14. can’t he? 15. will you? 16.
mustn’t she? 17. must they? 18. can’t it? 19. won’t
you? 20. won’t they?
12
1. couldn’t I? 2.
should I? 3. couldn’t he? 4. would we? 5. shouldn’t we? 6. wouldn’t
she? 7. would I? 8. couldn’t you? 9.
couldn’t he? 10. wouldn’t it? 11. should I?
12. wouldn’t I? 13. shouldn’t she?
14. could she? 15. would she? 16. shouldn’t he?
17. would they? 18. would you? 19.
wouldn’t they? 20. couldn’t it?
13
Answers will vary.
14
Answers will vary.
15
Answers will vary.
16
1. been. 2.
completed. 3. spoken. 4. left. 5. eaten. 6. had. 7. driven. 8. sold.
9. asked. 10. seen. 11. offered. 12.
made. 13. cleaned. 14. lived. 15. heard.
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1. finished. 2. read.
3. visited. 4. used. 5. entered. 6. spent. 7. passed. 8. checked.
9. taken. 10. broken. 11. painted.
12. given. 13. hung up. 14. written. 15. got.
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Answers will vary.
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1. It’s. 2. it’s.
3. It’s. 4. It’s. 5. its. 6. It’s. 7. its. 8. its. 9. It’s. 10. it’s. 11.
itself. 12. its.
13. It’s. 14. its. 15. It’s. 16.
its. 17. it’s. 18. It’s. 19. its. 20. its.
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1. it’s. 2. its. 3.
its. 4. It’s. 5. its. 6. itself. 7. its. 8. It’s. 9. its. 10. It’s. 11. its.
12. its.
13. It’s. 14. It’s. 15. its, its,
its. 16. itself. 17. It’s. 18. it’s. 19. It’s. 20. It’s, its, its, it’s.
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common nouns: bolabod,
flomp, belinop; proper nouns: Brongbrong, Roytapo;
verbs:
jinglop, hud,
plirk, querped, jepjev; adjectives: gongly, jambry, jockling;
adverb:
goomfie; prepositions:
briosh, blop; conjunctions:
fleb, cheeble; articles:
posky, jremp. For example, no.1
could read: “The milk (common noun) is very cold
(adjective). I put it in
(preposition) the
fridge.”
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(Main verb/compound
verb shown in brackets) 1. early (woke up). 2. beautifully
(sang). 3. angrily (shouted). 4.
slowly (walked). 5. quickly (worked). 6. yesterday
(went). 7. badly (play). 8. late
(arrived). 9. soundly (was sleeping). 10. passionately
(spoke out). 11. well (played). 12.
completely (disagree). 13. honestly (tell).
14. perfectly (can hear). 15.
dangerously (drives). 16. lately (seen). 17. often (go
clubbing). 18. quietly (close). 19.
fluently (speak). 20. Suddenly (rang).
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(Main verb/compound
verb shown in brackets) 1. soon (’ll see). 2. hurriedly (leave).
3. Fortunately (found). 4. briefly
(see). 5. home (take). 6. surprisingly (has gone).
7. easily (are). 8. Stupidly
(locked). 9. patiently (explained). 10. again (went). 11. fast
(was going). 12. usually (get up).
13. very (were). 14. Sadly (be with us). 15. nicely
(play). 16. safely (use the road).
17. never (know). 18. totally (was). 19. noisily (were
eating). 20. tomorrow (’re leaving).
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Answers to the
second part of this question will vary. Examples are shown in
brackets. 1. understand (underneath). 2. afloat (awake). 3. bicycle (bilateral).
4. supermarket (superstar). 5. foreground (forehead). 6. cooperate (coexist).
7. international (interview). 8. decrease (destabilise). 9. disown (discover).
10. incomplete (incompetent). 11. overwork (overuse).12. undo (unexpected).
13. mislead (mistake). 14. return (reuse). 15. subconscious (subdivision).
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Answers to the
second part of this question will vary. Examples are shown in
brackets. 1. endless
(meaningless). 2.
explained (advised). 3. novelist (typist).
4. poetic
(tragic). 5.
improvement (achievement). 6. learner
(waiter). 7. humorous
(jealous). 8. greatness
(happiness). 9.
realise (specialise). 10. actor (sailor).
11. helpful
(hopeful). 12. soften
(enliven). 13.
electrical (comical). 14. intention
(exception). 15. accessible
(invisible).
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1. See you in
five minutes. 2.
It’s my birthday on Monday. 3. We’re going on holiday
at
the weekend. 4. I
started my English class last autumn. 5. I’m meeting her at
five
o’clock. 6. My brother was born on
the first of May
1984. 7. Are you leaving in the
morning? 8. Do you want to go to
college in
September. 10. The
concert starts at 8 pm on Sunday evening. 11. “Can
you help me tidy up, please?”
“Sorry, I’m a bit busy at the moment.” 12. I didn’t go out
on
Saturday night. Did
you? 13. Can you call me at lunchtime tomorrow? 14. We’re
going to
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1. Valentine’s Day
is in February. 2. I’m going to meet Claire at
two o’clock in
the
afternoon. 3. Sarah and Kezia are
moving house next week. 4. We bought this house
in
1998. 5. He often
misses classes on Friday afternoons. 6. On Monday there will be
a special programme about the
environment on BBC 2. 7. I’ve been really tired this
week. 8. I went shopping on
Thursday morning.
9. Betty’s going to the doctor’s in the
morning. 10. The party started at
5 pm. 11. I was
born in September. My birthday is
on
September 20th. 12. The last visitors left at
a quarter to
twelve. 13. Kasia and Billy
got engaged at
Christmas. 14. We
went out for a meal last Saturday. 15. I’ll talk to
you at
the end of the
lesson, Nigel.
Vocabulary
Skills
30
1. luxury. 2.
maturity. 3. motivation. 4. music. 5. opinion. 6. pain. 7. patience.
8. peace. 9. peculiarity. 10.
pleasantness. 11. principle. 12. reality. 13. redemption.
14. refreshment. 15. relaxation. 16.
relief. 17. riches/richness. 18. romance.
19. sadness. 20. sanity.
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1. satisfaction. 2.
sensitivity. 3. sleep/sleepiness. 4. sorrow. 5. strictness. 6. strength.
7. stupidity. 8. submissiveness. 9.
success. 10. surprise. 11. sympathy. 12. talent.
13. tiredness. 14. tolerance. 15.
unemployment. 16. warmth. 17. weakness.
18. wisdom. 19. wit. 20. worry.
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1. c) 2. j) 3. b)
4. d) 5. g) 6. a) 7. h) 8. i) 9. e) 10. f)
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1. f) 2. h) 3. b)
4. e) 5. c) 6. g) 7. a) 8. j) 9. d) 10. i)
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1. head, heels. 2.
mind. 3. eye, eye. 4. nose. 5. cheek. 6. mouth. 7. lip. 8. neck.
9. back. 10. heart. 11. chest. 12.
stomach. 13. arm, leg. 14. hand. 15. palm.
16. finger. 17. hip. 18. bottom. 19.
knees. 20. foot.
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1. body. 2. vein.
3. blood. 4. skin. 5. hair. 6. brow. 7. pupils. 8. tooth. 9. face. 10. chin.
11. throat. 12. shoulder. 13. ribs.
14. lungs. 15. belly. 16. appendix. 17. arms.
18. thumb. 19. leg. 20. toes.
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1. no smoking. 2.
enter. 3. no dogs allowed. 4. danger. 5. fire exit. 6. closed. 7. out of
order. 8. pull. 9. private. 10.
queue here. 11. way out. 12. keep out. 13. vacancies.
14. toilets. 15. pay and display.
16. push. 17. open. 18. welcome. 19. no mobile
phones. 20. please pay here.
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Note: both options
are correct: 1. It’s ten past twelve. / It’s twelve ten. 2. It’s twentyfive
to four. / It’s three thirty-five.
3. It’s ten to nine. / It’s eight fifty. 4. It’s eighteen
minutes to twelve. / It’s eleven
forty-two. 5. It’s quarter past nine. / It’s nine fifteen.
6. It’s twenty past four. / It’s
four twenty. 7. It’s quarter past seven. / It’s seven fifteen.
8. It’s ten o’clock. 9. It’s two
minutes past two. / It’s two oh two. 10. It’s quarter past
six. / It’s six fifteen. 11. It’s
ten o’clock at night. / It’s ten pm. 12. It’s seven o’clock in
the evening. / It’s seven pm. 13.
It’s twenty-five past seven. / It’s seven twenty-five.
14. It’s eighteen minutes past four.
/ It’s four eighteen. 15. It’s one o’clock in the
afternoon. / It’s one pm.
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1. college. 2.
dental surgery. 3. office. 4. home. 5. farm. 6. hospital. 7. aeroplane.
8. shop. 9. school. 10. church. 11.
garage. 12. bus. 13. theatre. 14. community.
15. restaurant. 16. building site.
17. salon. 18. studio. 19. bank. 20. other people’s
homes.
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1. foolish. 2.
ordinary. 3. strange. 4. irritable. 5. aspiring. 6. desolate. 7. envious.
8. fortunate 9. little-known. 10.
unchanging. 11. unforgettable. 12. glowing. 13. easy.
14. implausible. 15. coarse.
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1. angry. 2.
distinguished. 3. mouth-watering. 4. accessible. 5. determined. 6. sad.
7. overdue. 8. defective. 9. cheap.
10. sore. 11. excellent. 12. destitute. 13. cautious.
14. reliable. 15. misty.
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Boys’ names:
George, Tom, Tony, John, Nigel, Simon, Tim, Andrew, Paul, Jeff.
Girls’ names: Tania, Rachael,
Simone, Paula, Claire, Charlotte, Anne, Tracey,
Stephanie, Jenny.
Spelling
Skills
45
marriage,
changeable, already, conceited, knowledge; immediate, privilege, definite,
assassination, amateur; committed,
tomorrow, receive, no one, accumulate.
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withhold,
questionnaire, opposite, occasion, discussion; government, experience,
inoculate, compelled, accuracy;
recommend, pronunciation, attachment, Wednesday,
unnecessary.
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accidentally,
appreciate, accommodation, handkerchief, apparent; weather or
whether, possession, summary,
perceive, noticeable; familiar, irresistible, hypocrisy,
independent, innumerable.
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1. accommodation.
2. conceive. 3. believe. 4. irrelevant. 5. marriage. 6. necessary.
7. tomorrow. 8. whether. 9.
recommend. 10. immediate. 11. humorous.
12. achievement. 13. beginning. 14.
apparent. 15. fifteen.
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a) eighteen. b)
twenty-eight. c) five or nine. d) twenty-two. e) nineteen. f) eleven.
g) six. h) seven. i) twenty-three.
j) thirty. k) five or nine. l) twenty-four.
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a) thirteen. b)
seventeen. c) one. d) two. e) twenty. f) three. g) twenty-one. h) four.
i) ten. j) twelve. k) eight. l)
fourteen.
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Suggested answers:
1. ful. 2. an. 3. ti. 4. tic. 5. ap. 6. hea. 7. ant. 8. pu. 9. i. 10. lar.
11. en. 12. sive. 13. nal. 14.
tique. 15. un. 16. si. 17. trac. 18. real. 19. thy. 20. fre.
Words with two syllables: 1, 2, 6,
7, 13, 14, 18, 19 and 20. Words with three syllables:
3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16 and 17.
Words with four syllables: 5, 9 and 11.
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1. ly. 2. pi. 3.
ver. 4. hea. 5. sion. 6. ly. 7. times. 8. rough. 9. liev. 10. ver. 11. dis.
12. ly. 13. nal. 14. hon. 15. ant.
16. thi. 17. dent. 18. lute. 19. mor. 20. qui. Words with
two syllables: 1, 6, 7, 10 and 12.
Words with three syllables: 2, 3, 4, 8, 13, 14, 16, 19
and 20. Words with four syllables:
11, 15, 17 and 18. Words with five syllables: 5 and
9.
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1. ping. 2. so. 3.
park. 4. check. 5. ing. 6. de. 7. cher. 8. net. 9. ket. 10. trol. 11. per.
12. off. 13. ment. 14. rest. 15. la.
16. tant. 17. card. 18. duced / ceipt. 19. a. 20. to.
Words with two syllables: 3, 4, 9,
10 and 18. Words with three syllables: 5, 7, 17, 19
and 20. Words with four syllables:
1, 11, 13, 15 and 16. Words with five syllables:
6, 8, 12 and 14. Word with six
syllables: 2.
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1. THE MERRY WIVES
OF WINDSOR. 2. AS YOU LIKE IT. 3. ROMEO AND
JULIET. 4. TITUS ANDRONICUS. 5. THE
WINTER’S TALE. 6. THE MERCHANT OF
9. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. 10. HENRY V.
11. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
12. RICHARD III. 13. KING LEAR. 14.
TWELFTH NIGHT. 15. ALL’S WELL THAT
ENDS WELL.
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1. abominable. 2. admissible. 3. audible. 4. achievable. 5. believable.
6. comfortable. 7. compatible. 8. considerable. 9. debatable. 10. excitable.
11. fashionable. 12. feasible. 13. flexible. 14. forgettable. 15. gullible. 16. illegible.
17. incredible. 18. inedible. 19. inevitable. 20. infallible. 21. insensible.
22. insufferable. 23. invisible. 24. knowledgeable. 25. laughable. 26. legible.
27. memorable. 28. noticeable. 29. possible. 30. preferable. 31. questionable.
32. reliable. 33. responsible. 34. sensible. 35. suitable. 36. terrible.
37. unacceptable. 38. unsuitable. 39. visible. 40. washable.
Reading
Skills
56-57
Note: as well as
being used as reading comprehension tests, these worksheets could
also be used with learners as oral
tests. Method: read the text aloud and ask
learners to make notes from what
they hear. They should then compare their notes
with a partner or the whole group.
Read the text again and learners should check
their notes and refine them, before
comparing them again with their partner or group
when you finish reading. You could
then either ask the questions verbally or give
learners a photocopy of the
questions only. Check feedback with the whole group at
the end of the activity. You could
give learners a copy of the initial text for reference.
With lower level groups you could do
the reading and note-taking step a third time.
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1. Mike, Renault
Clio, blue. 2. Narinder, Renault Clio, blue. 3. Graham, Seat, red.
4. Barbara, Ford Focus, black. 5.
Not known, Seat, brown. 6. Rob, Ford, red.
7. Carrie,
green. 10. Tanya, Hyundai, silver.
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Adam: £17.96.
Amélie: £10.48. Julia: £16.96. Jan: £15.47. Wai Ching: £20.94.
Kevin: £17.61. Total bill (including
gratuity): £99.42. Average cost of meal: £16.57.
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Answers will vary.
59
1. hard. 2. long.
3. expensive. 4. far. 5. busy. 6. small. 7. slow. 8. hot. 9. dry. 10. loud.
11. bright. 12. noisy. 13. late. 14.
interested. 15. argumentative.
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1. Avenue. 2.
Croft. 3. Chase. 4. Churchyard. 5. Circle. 6. Circus. 7. Close. 8. Copse.
9. Crescent. 10. Court. 11. Drive.
16. Hill.
24. Row. 25. Square. 26. Street. 27.
Terrace. 28. Walk. 29. Way. 30. Yard.
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1. surgery. 2.
clothes shop. 3. bank. 4. museum. 5. train station. 6. supermarket.
7. bookshop. 8. hospital. 9. leisure
centre. 10. playing field. 11. school.
12. newsagent. 13. Mrs. Simon’s
house. 14. post office. 15. Margaret Hart’s house.
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1. A) post office,
B) school, C) bank, D) supermarket. 2. E) leisure centre,
F) newsagent. 3. G) bank, H) Park,
I) museum. 4. J) surgery, K) clothes shop.
5. L) train station, M) supermarket,
N) hospital, O)
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1. A) clothes shop,
B) bookshop. 2. C) train station, D) Mrs. Simon’s house. 3. E)
hospital, F)
train station, L) Done. 5. M)
museum, N)
65-66
Note: you could use
the following two worksheets as listening exercises.
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1. 5,663, eggs, h).
2. 4,614, high, f). 3. 38,076, Globe, j). 4. 638, beg, a). 5. 53,045,
shoes, g). 6. 5,508, boss, i). 7.
57,714, hills, d). 8. 5,317, lies, e). 9. 34, he, c).
10. 637, leg, b).
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1. 55,076, gloss,
h). 2. 7,105, soil, c). 3. 4,615, sigh, j). 4. 35,007, loose, a).
5. 53,5507, losses, i). 6. 808, Bob,
e). 7. 771, ill, g). 8. 5,338, bees, b). 9. 57,718,
bills, d). 10. 14, hi, f).
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FACTS: 1. Saturday.
2. 5 pm. 3. Two. 4.
late). GUESS:
6. We can assume
that it is the number next to her name: 7718844.
7. We can assume that it is Maths,
because Katie is meeting him after the Maths
lesson. 8. We can assume that he is,
although we don’t know for sure! 9. We can
assume that it is swimming, because
she goes to swimming club. 10. We don’t know.
Although she attends college, she
could be any age over sixteen. IMAGINE: Answers
will vary.
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1. Five pounds
ninety pence. 2. Midnight. 3. Special Rice Noodles. 4. Number
thirty-eight. It costs four pounds
fifty pence. 5. Zero one three three four two, two four
zero nine one zero two. 6. Seven
pounds forty pence. 7. For six hours. 8. Number
forty – Shrimp Rice Noodles. It
costs four pounds ten pence. 9. One pound thirty
pence. 10. Mixed Vegetable Fried
Rice. 11. Sixteen pounds eighty-five pence.
12. Forty-six pounds ten pence. 13.
One hundred and forty-eight Field Lane,
Northover, NO twenty two, one JP. 14.
Choose number forty – Shrimp Rice Noodles,
number sixty-four – Mushroom Fried
Rice, and number one hundred and ninety-one –
Sweet & Sour Sauce, at a total
cost of eight pounds eighty-five pence. 15. Thirty-eight
hours per week.