Use of English: The high price of low-cost airlines - Andalucía 2008

USE OF ENGLISH

THE HIGH PRICE OF LOW-COST AIRLINES

7 FIND IN THE TEXT THE WORD WHICH HAS THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION:
   “the action of taking the first step doing something” (NOUN)

• Initiative(s) (Line 12)

8 COMPLETE THE SERIES WITH ANOTHER WORD OF THE SAME SEMANTIC GROUP:

• Damage / Harm / Injure / Hurt

9 FIND IN THE TEXT A SYNONYM FOR “duty” (NOUN).

• Responsibility (Line 10)

10 WHICH WORD IS NOT AN ADJECTIVE?

• Credible / Difference / Conventional / Aggressive.

11 TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE:
     “They never gave me instructions”.

• I was never given instructions.
• Instructions were never given (to me).

12 REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED:
     “The ticket was too expensive for him to pay”. | “The ticket was not ...”.

• The ticket was not affordable to him.
• The ticket was not cheap enough for him to pay.

13 FILL IN THE GAPS WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS:

• "If he (BRING) had brought his passport, he would not have had trouble at the airport".

14 GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS:
     “Peter lost his wife’s luggage at the airport two days ago”.

• Whose luggage did Peter lose at the airport two days ago?

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