The document discusses large scale projects and provides examples of sentences using collocations related to projects like coming in under budget, beginning work, running over budget, and missing a target. It also discusses comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs like more difficult, more expensive, and more urgent when completing sentences.
The document discusses large scale projects and provides examples of sentences using collocations related to projects like coming in under budget, beginning work, running over budget, and missing a target. It also discusses comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs like more difficult, more expensive, and more urgent when completing sentences.
The document discusses large scale projects and provides examples of sentences using collocations related to projects like coming in under budget, beginning work, running over budget, and missing a target. It also discusses comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs like more difficult, more expensive, and more urgent when completing sentences.
The document discusses large scale projects and provides examples of sentences using collocations related to projects like coming in under budget, beginning work, running over budget, and missing a target. It also discusses comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs like more difficult, more expensive, and more urgent when completing sentences.
Listening A 3.01 Match the words and phrases in each column to make collocations from the recording. Then listen again and check your answers. 1. E 1 begin a schedule 2. D 2 run b money 3. F 3 miss c under budget 4. A 4 fall behind d over budget 5. B 5 run out of e work 6. C 6 come in f a target
B Complete the sentences with the collocations in Exercise A. Use the
correct verb form. 1 We our of producing 10,000 units a month by about 300. 1. Missed a tarjet 2 Great news! We’ve and saved the project $3,500. 2. Come in under budget 3 When are you going to on the new design? 3. Begin work 4 We by about three days last month when the factory shut down 4. Fell behind a schedule because of a technical problem, so we’re going to hand over late. 5. Run out of money 5 If we keep spending so much, we’re going to , and we may not 6. Run over budget be able to raise more. 6 Because the cost of supplies went up, we by about $1,000 – nothing serious.
C Complete the sentences with the two words in brackets.
1 The Amazon River is about one hundred metres at the deepest point and has an average of twenty to fi fty metres. (deep / depth) 1. depth/deep 2 Japan’s Yodo River has a of about seventy-fi ve kilometres while the Kamo River 2. long/lenght is only about thirty-one kilometres . (long / length) 3. width/wide 3 Germany’s Emmerich Rhine Bridge crosses the river where it’s four hundred metres , though it has a of more than half a kilometre in some places. (wide / width)
Grammar D Complete the sentences with the comparative or superlative form of the adjectives and adverbs in the box.
big clearly diffi cult easy expensive experienced
important popular quickly urgently
1. biggest 1 With a population of 17 million, Delhi is city in India.
2. is more popular than 2 Internationally, soccer is baseball. 3. is more difficult 3 Chinese has 50,000 characters, so learning them is not learning the 4. more expensive 26 letters of the English alphabet. 5. 4 The rooms cost only a few dollars per night, so the Budget Inn is hotel in 6. more experienced than town. 5 Manufacturing is industry to China’s economy. 7. 6 As he’s just fi nished university, David is Helena, so I don’t think we should 8. off er him the job. 9. more urgent 7 I fi nished my degree than I wanted to. It took me fi ve years instead of four. 10. clearliest 8 Her subject in school was art, because she loved drawing and painting, and she was good at it. 9 My job application is due tomorrow, so I need to complete it my passport 10 application, which I have to send next week. I always understood what my boss was saying because he spoke of everyone in the offi ce.
