EGC5 Quiz 1 T50

Complete the table with the correct noun or verb.

Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

Complete the sentences using the phrasal verbs in the correct tense.

pick up        look after         take off        give up       catch up         run out of         get on well with             look up             fall out with

Choose the correct verb patterns to complete the sentences below.

Example:

We’d like {b} now.

a. leaving      b. to leave    c. will leave

Complete the text with the correct forms of the verbs in Present Perfect Simple, Present Simple and Past Simple.

enjoy    work    move    be (x2)    grow write    finish    have    begin    use

Instruction: Read the article. Write true (T) or false (F).

Example: The potato crop in 1845 was better than people expected. F

The Great Famine

The year of 1845 changed the history of Ireland forever. The weather was good so people were expecting a good potato crop that year. What they didn’t know was that a new form of potato disease had been brought into Europe.

The disease first appeared in America two years earlier, then it arrived via cargo ships into France and finally reached the Isle of Wight and Ireland. It turned potatoes into a black, rotten mess, which nobody could eat. More than half of the year’s harvest was destroyed.

Irish people depended on potatoes for their survival. Most people owned very small areas of land, and they grew potatoes instead of grain because a farmer could produce three times as much food on the same plot of land. A single acre of potatoes produced enough food for a family for a year. Each family grew only what they needed as they didn’t have anywhere to store potatoes over the winter.

There was famine all over the country. People went hungry without any food to eat for days. Then in 1846, the potato crop was devastated once again. The harvest in 1847 was also very poor. Three years without potatoes led to enormous problems for Ireland.

The British government, which ruled Ireland at the time, first did very little to help the people in need. In fact, during the crisis, British landlords continued exporting food from the country simply because they could get a better price abroad. Finally, in 1847 the government decided to do something about Ireland. They set up soup kitchens to give free food to people who needed it the most. They also started work programmes to help people make money so they could buy food for their families. But it was too little, too late.

Between 1845 and 1855, more than 700,000 Irish people died. After the famine, an estimated 2 million people left the country. Some people started new lives in Britain’s industrial cities, for example Glasgow, London and Liverpool. Others went to the USA. The population of Ireland dropped by more than a quarter.

The Great Famine, as they called the hunger crisis, transformed Irish culture and had a big effect on the Gaelic language. The crisis was worst in the west of Ireland, where most Gaelic speakers lived. Families who decided to emigrate no longer had any use for Gaelic in their new countries, and future generations of Irish immigrants didn’t learn the language at all. Today, many Irish people don’t speak Gaelic at all.

But many historians believe it was also the Great Famine that led to the nationalist movements which finally brought about Ireland’s independence from Britain in 1921.

Listen to five people talking about their work. Choose the correct letter.

Example: Fiona works in {b}

a  a bank.

b  a baker’s shop.

Listen again. Match two statements from a–k to each speaker. There is one extra statement.

a   couldn’t speak the language when he/she first arrived.

b  didn’t have his/her dream come true.

c  had a stressful job after university.

d  wants to have children soon.

e  is not successful yet, but is hoping to be.

f  applied to an online advertisement.

g  is always excited about the start of the summer.

h  doesn’t like visiting restaurants very often.

i   moved to Britain from another country.

j   suffered from depression.

k  lives in a small flat.