Ingles 5- Actividad 9

Excercises to solve:

Grammar check 1

The language of obligation

A. Read the following text and underline the six verbs that refer to obligation.

Traveling

When you travel abroad there are certain regulations that you have to comply with; the immigration authorities in all countries require visitors to be in possessions of the necessary travel documents. This means that they need to have at least a valid passport. However, depending on the country, they don’t necessarily have to obtain a visa as well. Travelers must also be fully aware of the restrictions that apply to the goods that they are carrying. In some countries you must not import or export certain categories of goods such as plants, alcohol or cultural artifacts.

Which of the verbs that you underlined are used to do the following?

1. Talk about things that you are forced to do – must, have to, require, need to.

2. Indicate that something is not obligatory- don’t have to

3. Talk about things that you are not allowed to do- must not

B. Read the instructions for passengers and complete them with the appropriate verbs forms.

SkyWays INSTRUCTIONS FOR PASSENGERS

Airlines

Tickets

Passengers do not need a ticket when traveling on sky ways airlines if they have made their reservations online. However, in order to complete our check-in procedures, all passengers must provide check-in staff with both personal ID and their order confirmation number. Our check-in policy has been specially designed to ensure that you don’t have to spend more than 30 minutes waiting in line and all passengers are invited to register at least one hour before their scheduled flight departures.

Baggage

Skyways allows passengers 20 kilograms of checked baggage and one piece of hand luggage. If checked luggage weight exceeds the allowance, passengers will have to pay an extra charge of live euros per kilo. Hand luggage must not weight more than five kilograms and must fit into the spaces provide on the aircraft for underseat or overhead storage.

Passengers are reminded that they must be able to certify that all their bags have been packed personally and that they do not contain ant prohibited items. They are also advised that, as a result of new international security procedures, locked baggage may have to be opened by security personnel.

Special conditions.

Skyways Airlines flights may sometimes be overbooked and there is therefore a slight chance that passengers will be required to accept sears on alternative flights.

If you have any doubts about skyways travel procedures all you need to do is call our travel helpline at 0800 979 7979.

Vocabulary Builder

Adjectives and adverbs

A. Look at the list of other adjective-forming suffixes. Make the necessary changes to the words below, then add the correct suffix to form adjectives.

-able -al -an -ant -ar -ary -ate -ent -ible -ic -ive -less

1. careless

2. prime-primal

3 .persuade- persuasive

4. reasonable

5. original

6. familiar

7. different

8. republican

9. electronic

10. passionate

11. accessible

12. observant

B. Which of the adjectives from the list above can be transformed into adverbs in this way?

1. Careless – carelessly

2. Primary – primarily

3. Persuasive – persuasively

4. Reasonable – reasonably

5. Original – originally

6. Familiar – familiarly

7. Different - differently

8. Republican

9. Electronic - electronically

10. Passionate – passionately

11. Accessible

12. Observant

C. Read the following brochure and write in the correct form of the adjective or adverb.

The Boca Negra Hotel and Conference Center offers one of the region’s most (prestige) prestigious venues for corporate seminars, sales conferences, and business retreats. Ideally located in the Sierra Pasada mountains, the hotel has (panorama) panoramic views and is within easy reach of MonteBello airport. The hotel’s luxurious accommodations include 200 (space) spacious rooms equipped with the finest furnishings and (compliments) complimentary Wi-Fi internet access. A full range of (recreation) recreational facilities, including an indoor pool and fitness center, is reserved (exclusive) exclusively for hotel guests. Out stat-of-the-art conference center features multi-use meeting spaces, which can be customized to suit your (profession) professional needs. Our two main conference rooms can each (comfortable) comfortably seat 200 people and are paired with smaller meeting spaces. Both have thelatest projection equipment, and our (knowledge) knowledgeable technical team is always available to ensure that your presentations are truly (effect) effective.

Grammar Check 2

Conditionals

A. We use different conditional forms to talk about how likely situations are to occur. Look at the examples and answer the questions.

1. If she takes the 7:45 flight to Athens,

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