Reading
1 Read this extract of a short biography of Michelle Obama. Then complete the chart with information from the text.
a. Michelle Obama’s full name:b. Her daughters’ names:
c. Her parents’ names:
d. The city where she grew up:
e. Michelle’s father’s place of work:
f. Her brother’s name:
g. Two majors she studied at Princeton:
h. Year she graduated from Harvard:
i. The place where she met her husband:
2 Read the extract again. Then answer the questions.
a. How does Michelle Obama describe herself?
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b. What health problem did Michelle’s father have?
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c. Did she study in private schools in Chicago?
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d. What was Michelle’s job when she met Barack Obama?
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Vocabulary
3 Complete the chart.
Adjective / Nouna. / angry / ______
b. / ______/ annoyance
c. / calm / ______
d. / ______/ disappointment
e. / embarrassed / ______
f. / ______/ excitement
g. / ______/ generosity
h. / happy / ______
i. / intelligent / ______
j. / sad / ______
k. / ______/ satisfaction
l. / ______/ sickness
m. / surprised / ______
n. / ______/ tiredness
4 Use the adjectives and nouns from Act. 3 to complete the sentences.
a. Matt was truly ______with the birthday party. He wasn’t expecting it.
b. Emily’s ______is above average. She has the best grades in the whole school.
c. I’m so ______that I could sleep for the next 12 hours!
d. Please be ______! Shouting and crying won’t solve the problem!
e. Carina missed classes due to her ______. She had to be in hospital for a week.
f. As the old saying goes, “money doesn’t buy ______”!
g. Mr. Temple is a very ______man. He donated $10,000 to the new community center.
h. That movie was such a ______! It’s much worse than I expected…
Grammar
5 Complete the sentences with the correct passive form of the verbs in brackets. Pay attention to the time expressions.
a. Michelle Obama ______(interview) for a magazine last December.
b. J.K. Rowling’s books ______(buy) by millions of people since 1997.
c. Rosa Parks ______(arrest) for civil disobedience in 1955.
d. A new movie about Rosa Parks ______(release) soon.
e. At present, the comments section of the blog ______(close).
f. Do you think that more women ______(award) science prizes in the future?
g. At this time yesterday, scenes for the new movie ______(shoot) right here.
h. Did you know that women ______(allow – neg.) to compete in the first Olympic Games, in 1896?
i. Nowadays, girls ______(encourage) to do sports in many countries.
j. The first novel in the world, The Tale of Genjii, ______(write) by female author Murasaki Shikibu, around 1000 A.D.
6 Write these sentences in the passive form. Omit the agent when possible.
a. People celebrate International Women’s Day every year, on March 8th.
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b. In 1888, American journalist Nellie Bly completed a journey around the world in 72 days.
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c. Someone has donated $45,000 to the Girls’ Education Fund.
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d. People will organize an event to raise more money for the fund.
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e. Voters in Wyoming elected Nellie Tayloe Ross as governor in 1924.
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f. In New Zealand, the government gave women the right to vote in 1893.
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g. During World War II, women did most of the factory work in the United States.
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h. Polish scientist Marie Curie discovered radioactivity at the end of the 19th century.
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7 Complete the text with the active or passive form of the verbs in brackets. Pay attention to the verb tense.