Лексические упражнения по разделам по учебнику Starlight 7
методическая разработка по английскому языку (7 класс) на тему

Guess the word

1. A(An) ________________ is a person who looks after a building, school or a block of flats.
2. A(An) ________________ makes men’s clothes.
3. A(An) ________________ can cut, style and curl your hair.
4. A(An) ________________ works underground and extracts substances (gold, coal).
5. A(An) ________________ is a scientist who studies all living things.
6. A(An) ________________ works in an office, types letters and answers phone calls.
7. A(An) ________________ is a person in charge of a collection of books.
8. A(An) ________________ examines and treats people’s teeth and gums.
9. A(An) ________________ hosts or introduces a programme on TV.
10. A(An) ________________ studies the Earth’s atmosphere and predicts the weather.
11. A(An) ________________ paints or draws pictures, creates sculptures for a living.
12. A(An) ________________ operates on a patient.
13. A(An) ________________ is a person in a bank or a shop who receives or pays money.
14. A(An) ________________ is trained to save people from drowning in the sea or pool.

I. Complete the sentences with the phrases and words: ceremony, hustle and bustle, prosperity, lasted, marching, nickname, fairy wedding, steaming hot, groom, entrance, greeted, leapt at the chance.

1. It was such a ___________________________  day that we decided to go to the beach.
2. She isn’t used to the ___________________________ of the big city.
3. He ______________________________ of travelling to India.
4. The party _____________________ until the early hours.
5. She ___________________________ us with a big warm smile.
6. The ________________  made a spectacular __________________________ on a white horse.
7. Jaipur’s ______________________ is the pink city.
8. I want to have a _________________________, like a princess in a castle.
9. A _________________________ band passed by us at the beginning of the parade.
10. This design is a symbol of future _________________ and happiness.
11. The guests really enjoyed watching the ________________________.

1. Complete the sentences with words: embassy, cultures, the middle of nowhere, ran after, buzzing around, sacks, bushes, experiences, shared, passport, long-tail boat, grabbed.

1) I learnt so much about different ____________ and I had some crazy ________________, too.

2) I ended up in a small village in ____________________________.

3) I was sitting on the top of some ____________________ on the man’s cart.

4) Mosquitoes were _____________________ the ox.

5) My friend ____________________ his lunch with me.

6) I decided to go on a _________________ trip around the islands.

7) One monkey _______________ my bag and ran into the ___________________.

8) I _____________________ the monkey but it was too fast.

9) The bag had my _____________________ in it.

10) I had to get a new passport from my _____________________.

2. Complete the sentences with words: fading, argument, brainchild, catchy, search engines, investors, performance, complicated, headquarters, user-friendly, popularity.

1) Google was the __________________ of Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

2) Google started with an _____________________.

3) At that time ____________________ were slow and _____________________.

4) Social networking sites are growing in ___________________________.

5) The small business is looking for support from ____________________.

6) I like this computer because of its speedy _________________________.

7) The company’s new __________________________ are in New York.

8) Google has made the Internet more __________________________.

9) A new search engine needs a _________________________ name.

10) Google shows no signs of ________________________.

1. Complete the sentences with the words: pop culture, sharp, play…by ear, lyrics, ancient times, acrobatics, sensation, lanterns, high-pitched, crowds, reveals, outrageous, ribbons, emotions, social media, kaleidoscope, reigning.

1) In ______________________, actors performed the operas on the streets.

2) Temporary stages were decorated with hanging ________________ for lighting.

3) The actors came on stage in beautiful costumes with _________________ of gold and silver. It was like a ______________________ of colour.

4) The singing was quite strange – very _____________________ and ________________________.

5) Big ___________________ of people gathered to watch the opera.

6) The actors used their faces and bodies to act out the story and show their ____________________. They danced and did ___________________, too.

7) Each colour has a special meaning and ___________________ something about the character.

8) Lady Gaga is a worldwide __________________________.

9) She could ___________________ the piano ____________________.

10) Lady Gaga wears _____________________ costumes, wigs and make-up.

11) She used ___________________ sites to chat with fans.

12) The ________________ of the new song were beautiful.

13) Lady Gaga is considered to be a ___________________ icon of today’s ____________________.

1. Write the correct words: survey, marine, research, humpback, drop, survival, sets, freezing.

1) ____________________ station                                5) ___________________ whale

2) ____________________ biologist                        6) ___________________ course

3) temperatures _________________                        7) ___________________ cold

4) the sun ______________________                        8) do a ____________________

2) Write the correct words: ski-doos, continent, marine biologist, scientific, sledges, survey, rises, seals, survival course, sets, newcomers, mild, humpback whale.

1) Antarctica is the coldest and the driest _______________________ on Earth.

2) Thirty countries have ________________________ research stations there.

3) The sun __________________ in the east and _____________________ in the west.

4) In summer the weather is quite ____________________ in Antarctica.

5) The wildlife is incredible – there are ___________________ everywhere and you can even see a  ___________________________.

6) Matt works as a __________________________. Now he is doing a ____________________ and studying the penguins.

7) All the ______________________ have just come back from a week-long ___________________.

8) They travelled by ________________________ and _____________________ and they camped in the snow.

1. Complete the sentences.

1) You need an elastic rope to go __________________________________.

2) You need a board and protective clothing to go ________________________________.

3) You need an inflatable armchair and flippers to go __________________________________.

4) You need a four-wheeled motorbike and a helmet to go ________________________________.

5) You need a surfboard connected to a kite to go _________________________________.

6) You need a Chinese frying pan, a helmet and ladles to go _________________________________.

7) You need an ice axe and boots with metal spikes to go __________________________________.

8) You need an ironing board and on iron to go _____________________________________.

2. Fill in: rapids, erupts, world championship, bottom, ash, control, craze, protective, backwards, webbed gloves, melts, competitor.

1) If you want to try this new __________________, you will have to go to the mountains.

2) When the volcano ______________________ it throws out ______________________.

3) Don’t forget to put on some _____________________________ clothing.

4) Ted won the _________________________ in river bugging.

5) The river bugger lost one of his ______________________________ when he hit the rock.

6) The young quad racing ________________________ failed to show up for the event.

7) If you warm the ___________________ of your wok before competing, it _________________ the ice and you go faster.

8) If you want to ____________________ your bug, go ____________________ to go faster.

9) A river bug speeds you along a river and down __________________________.

I. Fill in: wilderness, suffered from, crawled, shelter, signal, crashed into, rescue helicopter, spotted, supplies, scare off, strength, picked … up, overhead.

1) Tom and his friend saw a large eagle flying _________________.

2) All their __________________ fell into the river when their boat overturned.

3) The lost boys made a ____________________ fire to alert rescuers.

4) Swimming is a great way to build up your physical ____________________.

5) The Alaskan ______________________ is made up of wild mountains and glaciers.

6) Father taught his son how to build a _____________________ out of leaves.

7) The pilot of the ________________________ caught sight of the raft.

8) The raft _______________________ the ice and the men fell into the cold water.

9) Neil ______________________ hypothermia.

10) He made his way towards the town, singing loudly to ____________________ bears.

11) The pilot finally ________________ Blake and ________________ him ___________.

12) The man ____________________ onto the piece of ice to get out of the cold water.

I. Fill in: frequent, confined, thumb, shoulder, ear, hearing, blurred, extended, skin, strain.

1) __________________ space                                6) _______________ loss

2) __________________ canal                                7) _______________ period

3) __________________ strain                                8) eye _________________

4) __________________ infections                        9) _______________ arthritis

5) __________________ vision                                10) ______________ breaks

II. Complete the sentences with the phrases from ex.1.

1. Watching television for too long can cause __________________________________.
2. I love to play my games console but take ___________________________to rest my fingers.
3. Repeated arm motions can cause ______________________________________________.
4. Don’t text too much; you might develop a condition called _________________________.
5. Listening to loud music can cause _____________________________________________.
6. Sue has often got _______________________________________________ on her face.
7. Earphones play the music directly into your ____________________________________.
8. Staring at a computer screen for an ____________________________ can cause eye strain.
9. One of the symptoms of eye strain is __________________________________________.
10. When you make the same motion again and again in a _______________________, the results can be serious.

I. Fill in: constricted blood vessels, travel sickness, swallow, immune system, natural remedies, rub, indigestion, blood vessels, insomnia, upset, soothe.

1) Some people tend to get ___________________________ when they are moving in a car.

2) Eating in a hurry can cause ___________________________________.

3) Arteries are _______________________________ that carry blood from the heart to the rest of the body.

4) In the past, people had to use ____________________________ to cure health problems.

5) The _______________________ is designed to defend our bodies against bacteria.

6) ________________________ the cream gently until it absorbed.

7) _________________________ is a sleep disorder in which a person can’t sleep.

8) A little baking soda added to water can help calm an _______________________ stomach.

9) Add vinegar to your bath to _____________________________ your skin.
10) Tim doesn’t like to ________________________________ cough syrup.

11) Caffeine helps open up our __________________________________________ in the brain.

I. Fill in: nick, broken, get, stuck, safety, bare, surface, dare, sigh, raise.

1) __________________ net                        6) _______________ a fine

2) __________________ hands                        7) _______________ devil

3) __________________ with relief                8) slippery ________________

4) __________________ bone                        9) get _______________

5) __________________ awareness                10) ______________ name

II. Complete the sentences with the phrases: got stuck, nickname, grip, rope, safety net, daredevil, gather, broken bones, sigh with relief, ledges, vertigo.

1. Alan can’t  ______________________ the slippery surfaces when it’s wet.
2. He hangs from balconies and crawls along _______________________.
3. He uses his bare hands – there’s no _________________ or ______________________.
4. Crowds of people _________________ to watch him when he climbs up a building.
5. The people ________________________ when Alain reaches the top of a building safely.
6. He has had several _____________________ because he has fallen 7 times.
7. Alain suffers from ______________________ so he feels dizzy when he’ s up high.
8. Alain’s ________________________ is Spiderman.
9. Nothing can stop this ______________________ who risks his life every day.
10. Once he ____________________ on the 35th floor.

I. Fill in: get, shake, odd, little by little, pump, beats, trigger, tense, sweat, miss out on.

1) __________________ like a leaf                        6) _______________ adrenalin

2) heart_____________ fast                                7) muscles _______________

3) palms __________________                         8)  ________________ a fear reaction

4) __________________ phobias                        9) face the fear ___________________

5) __________________ opportunities                        10) ______________ stung

II. Complete the sentences with the phrases: suffers from, beats, sense, shake, ridiculous, enclosed spaces, trigger, nightmare, rational, catch.

1. Alice’s heart ________________________ fast every time she gets into lift.
2. Karen began to _______________________ like a leaf when she saw a spider on her.
3. A bee stung can ______________________ an allergic reaction.
4. She tried to calm down and _______________________ her breath.
5. Animals run away when they _____________________ danger.
6. Her fear of mirrors is not __________________________ -  it’s all in her mind.
7. The whole experience was a ______________________ - we’ll never do it again.
8. Claustrophobia is a fear of _______________________________.
9. Some of the fears might sound _________________ , but to a person who suffers from them, they are real.
10. When someone ______________________ a phobia, however the danger is mostly in their minds

I. Complete the sentences with the phrases: get into routine, shorten, replaces, caffeine, resting state, cells, drops, fall asleep, lack, deeply, slow  down, immune system, awake, active, heart .

1. Until quite recently, scientists believed that sleep was a simple, _____________________________.
2. While we sleep our brain sorts through information, ______________chemicals and repairs ___________.
3. When we sleep our body temperature __________________________________.
4. _________________________  of sleep seriously affects our body, mind and _______________________.
5. When we don’t rest enough, it may __________________________ our life.
6. When we sleep our ____________________ rate and other bodily functions ________________________ but our brains stay very _____________________.
7. In stage N3, we sleep more _______________________ and it’s harder to wake up.
8. Drinks that contain _____________________ can keep you _________________________.
9. Don’t exercise before going to bed. You might find it difficult to ______________________________.
10. Try to go to sleep and wake up at the same time. This helps your body to _________________________.

I. Fill in: benches, relieve, bathing, cabin, steam, toxins, blood circulation, buckets, ladle, dried, elaborate, intense.

1) enjoy ____________________                        7) _______________ bathhouses

2) a ________________ room                        8) a small _______________

3) __________________ of water                        9) a  ________________ of hot water

4) rows of ___________________                         10) ______________________ stress

5)  bunches of______________ branches                11) improve  _____________________

6) _____________________ heat                        12) remove ______________________

II. Complete the sentences with the phrases: prevent, steam, pores, elaborate, bathing, heal, white birch.

1. Russian people enjoy ____________________________ and the banya is a very old and popular tradition.
2. The ancient Romans built ___________________________ bathhouses.
3. The ____________________ room is called the parilka.
4. The steam opens up _____________________ in the skin
5. Russian people often hit themselves with bunches of dried branches and leaves from _________________.
6. The banya can ____________________ and ___________________ a number of illnesses.

I. Complete the sentences with the phrases and words: sneeze, broke down, suffered from, cover, was stuck, plenty, usher, polluted, fault, rail, furious, deal with, restaurant critic, pressed against.

1. The train ____________________ in the tunnel and I  ________________________ there for an hour. I was late for work.
2. The air of our city is ______________________________.
3. I have to travel on transport every day and there are ______________ of things that annoy me.
4. Everybody has to hold onto a ___________________ while going on the bus.
5. There were a lot of people on the metro train and I was ________________________ the door.
6. My dad’s got an unusual job. He’s a _____________________________________.
7. It’s difficult for a restaurant to _______________________ difficult customers.
8. Have you ever _____________________________ people’s bad habits?
9. My friend talked loudly on a mobile phone in the cinema and the _________________ told him to leave. It was his ______________________ but my friend was ________________________.
10. If you ____________________________, you should _____________________ your mouth.

II. Replace the expressions in bold with the idioms: the final straw, lost my temper, felt really sorry for, gets on me nerves, laughing their heads off, my heart sank, letting off steam.

1. It always ______________________________________ (annoys me) when people talk in the cinema.
2. When the train pulled to the station and I saw the bodies pressed against the door, _________________________________ (I started to feel worried).
3. A group of teenagers didn’t stop laughing and talking in the cinema. Eventually, I __________________________________ (got angry).
4. My friends were __________________________________ (laughing a lot).
5. So, here I’m back home, _____________________________________ (releasing my anger) on my blog.
6. The man started complaining to the waiter. We ________________________________ (sympathized with) the waiter.
7. (The thing that made me feel unable to accept a situation any more) ____________________________ was when he sneezed loudly without covering his mouth.

I. Complete the sentences with the phrases and words: patient, self-confident, outgoing, host family, host, overwhelming, treat, foreign, go for it, turn up, challenging, rewarding.

1. ________________________ means sure of your own abilities.
2. A ________________________ is a group of relatives who have invited sb to live with them in their home.
3. ________________________ means affecting very strongly.
4. An ________________________ person is very friendly and enjoys meeting people and talking.
5. ________________________ means giving you satisfaction.
6. A ________________________ is a person who invited guests.
7. ________________________ means to encourage sb to do sth.
8. ________________________ means to behave towards someone in a certain way.
9. ________________________ means coming from a country that is not your own.
10. _________________________ means difficult and requiring effort.
11. _________________________ means to arrive.
12. __________________________ means calm, not getting angry easily.

I. Complete the sentences with the phrases and words: shaves, social, determination, homeless, shelter, won a scholarship, solar panels, award-winning, home-grown, reach…goals, profits.

1. Paul cares a lot about ______________________________ issues.
2. Mary lost her job and she was _______________________, living in the streets.
3. Her dad is an _____________________________________ author.
4. Sue went to university and through ________________________________ and hard work she graduated with honours.
5. He used the __________________________ from his book to build a ______________ for animals.
6. She decided to put in ______________________________ to reduce the heating costs.
7. They worked hard to ______________ their _____________________.
8. He has enough __________________________ food to last for month.
9. She ___________________________ to a top university.
10. Narayanan gives haircuts and ____________________________.

II. Replace the expressions in bold with the phrasal verbs: look after, gave up, take up, turn…around, set up, moved into, put in, hands out.

8. Liz’s parents were drug addict and couldn’t  ______________________ (care for) her and her sister.
9. Liz decided to try to ______________ her life _______________ (change).
10. Narayanan Krishnan was a chef who was about to ____________________ (start) a top job in Switzerland.
11. He ____________________ (stopped doing) his job and _____________________ (created) a charity.
12. Narayanan prepares and ___________________ (gives) meals to the homeless.
13. Mark _________________ (started living in) an old caravan in the countryside.
14. Mark __________________ (installed) solar panels for power.