Practice

1. PHOTOCOPIABLE © Cambridge University Press 2015
Vocabulary practice
PV
Unit 3
Health
1 Choose the best answers to complete the sentences.
1 Tina didn’t go to nursery today because she had an
eye infection / eye infected.
2 The man was so overweight he suffered a stomach ache /
heart attack.
3 Dad needs to eat better because he is overweight / weighted.
4 The children ate too many sweets at the party so they had
digestion / stomach ache last night.
5 The health service / health system in the UK is becoming
overloaded as more people have an unhealthy diet.
6 A lot of the children were off school today because they
were feeling overweight / sick.
7 Non-processed food is better for the digestive system /
digested.
2 Complete the sentences with the phrases from the box.
a heart of gold from the bottom of my heart
hand on heart a hearty meal heart was broken
the heart of the matter
1 Jenny’s when Nick broke up
with her.
2 That girl has . She’s just
donated her lottery win to charity.
3 I say with that I will make a
real effort to give up smoking.
4 We need to get to to find the
cause of the problem.
5 On a cold winter’s day, like a
stew is perfect to warm you up.
6 I would like to thank you for
all your help.
3 Choose the best phrasal verbs to complete the text.
John has really 1 over
the last year. He seems to be taking life more seriously
at last. He’s 2 a little
weight, which suits him as he was very thin before.
He’s 3 some computer
skills by doing several online courses and he’s even
4 for a course at university
in September. I think I can 5
and relax a little now, he seems to have a plan.
1 a grown up b picked up c put on
2 a picked up b put on c gained on
3 a found out b got up c picked up
4 a signed up b started up c signed in
5 a sit back b kick back c put back
Quantities and capacity
4 Match the quantities 1–8 with a–h.
1 12
2 a pile of money
3 a tiny amount
4 a generous spoonful
5 a small spoonful
6 a vast population
7 20 sacks of waste
8 1 gigabyte
a a teaspoonful
b a tonne of rubbish
c a heaped teaspoonful
d £2000
e a drop
f 10 million people
g loads of memory
h a dozen
5 Choose the best answers to complete the sentences.
1 I can’t go out tonight because I’ve got .
a number of homework b a spot of homework
c a tonne of homework
2 OK. Now we need a of vanilla essence. Just a tiny bit
because it’s very strong.
a cup b drop c spoonful
3 The children are in because they disobeyed their
mother.
a drop of trouble b spot of trouble c heaps of trouble
4 Can you buy me a of flour, please?
a tonne b kilo c gigabyte
5 We need to add two of flour, mix all the ingredients
together and then bake it in the oven.
a tonnes b cups c piles
6 They cancelled the walk because they felt a of rain!
a heap b cup c spot
Idioms
6 Complete the sentences with the idioms from the box.
as fit as a fiddle as right as rain
feeling down in the dumps slept like a log
under the weather
1 I can’t believe Gran is 90 this year. She’s
– fitter than some of us!
2 Toby said he was feeling so
he wouldn’t go to the party tonight.
3 Jane is because she didn’t
pass the exam.
4 The doctor told me to take this medicine twice a
day for the next three days and then I would be
.
5 That bed is so comfortable I
last night, it was wonderful.