Complete the dialogue with the words from the box. Then listen and check your answers.

Here are the solutions to the questions:

REVIEW Intelligence LANGUAGE SKILLS

1. Complete the dialogue with the words from the box.

• Andy: Hi, Jamie. How is your exam revision going?
• Jamie: Don't talk about it! I don't think my nerves can take any more! What about you?
• Andy: I'm having a break. I've started to become really scattered-brained. I can't concentrate any more.
• Jamie: I know what you mean. I've been swatting up for the history exam for hours but I can't remember anything!
• Andy: Yeah, my head is so full of facts that I think my brain is going to explode!
• Jamie: I know! I hate rote-learning loads of numbers, dates and so on. I wish there was another way of testing us.
• Andy: Well, there's only a week left. Then you can spend all summer improving your knowledge of the subjects by re-reading your school books in the sun on the beach!
• Jamie: Ha, ha! I think I'd prefer to remain ignorant! OK, I prefer finishing the exams quickly, but I still don't enjoy sitting exams at all!
• Andy: Nobody does, but it's a good system for revising and reinforcing what we've learned!
• Jamie: So that's why you're taking such a long break, is it?

2. Decide if the sentences are true or false.

1. Both Andy and Jamie are tired from studying.
   • True
2. Jamie is happy with what he has studied for the history exam.
   • False
3. The weather will be warm after the exams.
   • True
4. The exams will be over in seven days.
   • True
5. Jamie likes doing exams so long as they're over quickly.
   • False
6. Andy thinks exams are a useful method of checking what you've learned.
   • True

3. Choose the correct answers.

1. Emphatic 'do' is used to:
   • b) contradict an affirmative statement
2. Do we use the auxiliary verb 'do' in a/an:
   • a) object question?
3. What is the correct reply question to this statement? "My sister's getting married."
   • b) Who to?
4. Which pronoun do we use in a question tag if the subject of the sentence is 'somebody'?
   • a) they
5. Which is the correct statement for this question tag? "... shall we?"
   • c) Let's go shopping

DICTIONARY CORNER The brain

1. Match the words with 1-6 in the diagram.

• 1: Cerebrum
• 2: Thalamus
• 3: Medulla oblongata
• 4: Spinal cord
• 5: Pituitary gland
• 6: Cranium

2. Find expressions that include the word 'brain' in your dictionary to complete the entries below.

1. The brain (noun [sing.]) responsible for organizing and thinking about something: Ann is the brain behind the business.
2. IDM to have something on the brain (informal) to think about sth all the time: He's got football on the brain.
3. brain drain (noun [sing.]) when qualified people leave one country to work in another: The country has suffered a brain drain in recent years.
4. brainwave (noun [sing.]) the idea or invention of one person: The plan was Peter's brainwave.
5. just had a brainstorm (C) (informal) a sudden good idea: I've just had a brainstorm.
6. brainy (adjective (informal)) very intelligent: She's brainy and she always passes her exams.

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