Progress check

 Read 1–14 and evaluate your learning in Unit 3. Give yourself a mark from 1 to 3. How can you improve?

1 I can't do this.    2 I have some problems with this.    3 I can do this well.

A  Happiness

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 1Name three things people can do for long-lasting happiness.

I can understand a text about feeling good.

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• 2Where can you usually find the topic sentence in a paragraph?

I can identify main ideas in paragraphs.

123

• 3Which idiom is about happiness?

  ■ feel down in the mouth   ■ be over the moon   ■ feel blue

I can use idioms to talk about happiness and sadness.

123

• 4Name three adjectives that have the noun suffix –ness.

I can use noun suffixes.

123

B  Healthy bodies, healthy minds?

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 5What is the difference between these sentences?

  a  I’ve been to Rome.    b  I went to Rome last year.

I can use the past simple and present perfect tenses.

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• 6Which tense do we use for events in the past that have a connection with the present?

I can talk about past events with a connection with the present.

123

C  Be a good sport!

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 7Which value describes someone who

  a depends on themselves, and not other people?

  b has one aim and is determined to achieve it?

I can talk about how sport shows people’s values.

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• 8What are the main advantages of team sports? What are the main advantages of individual sports?

I can understand a discussion about different types of sport.

123

• 9Give a way of reacting to good news and one way of reacting to bad news.

I can react to news appropriately.

123

D  Fat America

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 10Give three reasons why American teenagers today are more overweight than teenagers in the 1970s.

I can understand a text about obesity in the USA.

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• 11Which adverbs describe the way we do something?

  ■ comfortably  ■ extremely  ■ quickly  ■ incredibly  ■ worryingly

I know the difference between types of adverbs.

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• 12 Complete the sentence with the correct forms of the verbs.

  I ..................... (watch) this football match for three hours now and

  no one ..................... (score) a goal yet.

I can use the present perfect and the present perfect continuous.

123

E  A personal letter

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 13Which two phrases can you use to express a reason? Which two phrases can you use to express a purpose?

I can express reason and purpose.

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• 14Which adverb or prepositional phrase could you use to show that

  a you are saying what you really think?

  b something is clear?

I can express my attitude to ideas and topics appropriately

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