Vocabulary and grammar: Fat America

Vinsight Adverbs

1Choose the correct adverbs. 

• 1SurprisinglyExtremely, for such a small car, it goes from zero to 100 km/h very worryinglyquickly. The seats are very good quality and rapidlyreally comfortable.

• 2The Government need to act rapidlycomfortably to prevent the situation becoming extremelyquickly dangerous.

• 3WorryinglyClearly, the computers which we bought very cheaplysurprisingly have proven to be incrediblysimilarly slow and crash all the time.

Vinsight Adverbs

2Match sentences 1–3 in exercise 1 to places you would read them a–c. 

• aa newspaper report

• ban email from an IT teacher

• ca magazine review

Vinsight Adverbs

3Choose the correct answers. 

• 1Surprisingly, the study showed that people who ate chocolate more often were found to be thinnerless often were found to be thinner.

• 2Worryingly, many young people say that they expect to find work when they leave schooldon't expect to find work when they leave school.

• 3Cyclists are always in greater danger than car drivers on the roads. Similarly, motorcyclists are more likely to be killed in accidents than car driversless likely to be killed in accidents than car drivers.

• 4Clearly, the fact that the company uses teenagers to test their games shows that they aren't sure who will be their biggest customersthey think that young people will be their biggest customers.

Present perfect continuous

4Complete the sentences using the present perfect continuous form of the verbs in the box. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

MOVE
• look
• talk
• play
• shop
• wash
• fix
• lie
• throw

• 1John is wet because he  the dog.

• 2Zoe is extremely tired because she  tennis all afternoon.

• 3Billy and Adam are red because they  in the sun all afternoon.

• 4My eyes are hurting because I  at a computer screen all day.

• 5Martin's hands are really cold because he  snowballs in the park.

• 6Mike's clothes are dirty because he  his bike.

• 7We don't have any money left because we  all morning.

• 8I  to Olivia, so I've got lots of interesting news!

 Present perfect simple and present perfect continuous

5Complete the newspaper article with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the present perfect simple or present perfect continuous. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

The number of people suffering from high blood sugar ¹ (rise) for many years, and 

²

 

(double) since 1980. Diabetes ³ (now / become) the world's greatest health problem. One in five men in the US have diabetes, but the numbers have grown even more rapidly in Asian and Arab countries, with Saudi Arabia now one of the highest. These increases are in Type 2 diabetes, and doctors ⁴ (know) for a long time that this is directly connected with diet and exercise. Most patients have Type 2 diabetes because they 

⁵ 

(eat) badly for many years, and more and more young people ⁶ (show) signs of the disease in recent times.

Doctors 

⁷

 

(always /think) that once a patient ⁸ (develop) diabetes, they will have it for life. However, a group at Newcastle University in the UK ⁹ (do) research into Type 2 diabetes since 2009, and 

¹⁰

 

(just / produce) some surprising results. The researchers made diabetes patients go on a very strict diet for six weeks, and 

¹¹ (discover) that their diabetes disappeared completely as a result. Those patients who

 

¹² (follow) a healthy diet ever since 

¹³

 

(continue) to remain free of the disease.

6 CHALLENGE! Write about some of your hobbies and activities. Say how long you have been doing them (present perfect continuous + for or since), and talk about some of your results or achievements (present perfect simple). I've been learning karate for the last two years. I've received my white, yellow and orange belts.

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