Prime Time 5/6, Writing, Arbeitsheft

47 Useful language: Expressing change 2: get – become – grow – turn – go get (+ (pro-)noun) = receive fetch For Christmas I got a new computer game. Could you get me a glass of water, please? get (+ adverb of place) = arrive We got home at five in the morning. become (+ noun) = take up the job of turn out to be After school I want to become an engineer. The dog Laika became the first “doggonaut”. turn (fast change) = go When the traffic lights turned red, he stopped immediately. She didn’t put the milk in the fridge and so it turned sour. go (+ adjective) = turn, become If I have to go on like this, I will go crazy. grow (slow change, formal) = become, get As they grew older, they spent more and more money on holidays. Match the sentence halves. 1. When I turned white when he saw the huge dog. 2. Nowadays people get an Interrail ticket from my parents. 3. Wellness resorts are becoming a fitness trainer because I think it is fun. 4. On holiday I got older, they want to be with their friends more. 5. I decided to become 16, I got a big cake for my birthday party. 6. The trip turned into sour. You shouldn’t have left it in the sun. 7. The little boy turned older, he stopped behaving like a child. 8. In autumn the leaves go there, we realised that we were a day early. 9. As children get an engineer to repair the heating. 10. When we got me a cup of tea from the kitchen. 11. The milk has turned so bored that I wanted to go home early. 12. I got a real disaster because of our guide. 13. I can’t get up. Can you get older and older. 14. As he grew into a blizzard … what a nightmare! 15. The weather turned more and more popular. 16. I don’t think we will be able to get brown and fall off. Asking rhetorical questions Respond to the statements below with rhetorical questions. Use the words given. 1. It is quite common today that people post all kinds of very private information on the internet. Why – people – do? 2. A lot of people in Australia are fond of Aboriginal culture. So why – reluctant – support programmes – Aboriginal people? 3. Many people like travelling to remote places like deserts or high mountains. Do they do it because – want – get a break – modern lifestyle? 4. Jobs which earn a lot of money seem to be highly attractive to school leavers. But should – money the only thing that counts – look for a job? 1 36  Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv