OBJECTS AND ACTIONS (CHECK YOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR IELTS)

CHECK YOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR IELTS

OBJECTS AND ACTIONS

A.       The words in the box describe the actions of he things in 1-37. Match each action with the thing it describes.

evaporate	explode	change	melt	fade	bounce	crumble	trickle
rise	sink	ring	contract	crack	escape	stretch	wobble
congeal	burn	spill	smoulder	erupt	spin	revolve	set
flow	slide	rotate	spread	erode	meander	turn	subside
freeze	grow	expand	vibrate	float

1	The planet Earth moving round on its axis.	____________
2	A washing machine in its final stage of wash.	____________
3	The moon moving around the Earth.	____________
4	The CD-ROM tray on a computer base unit.	____________
5	A house slowly sinking into soft ground.	____________
6	Water slowly being converted into vapour.	____________
7	Cooking fat becoming solid on an unwashed plate.	____________
8	Traffic moving smoothly along a motorway.	____________
9	Water changing from a liquid to a solid because of the cold.	____________
10	Glass changing from a solid to a liquid in very high heat.	____________
11	A loose wheel on a car.	____________
12	Gas coming out of a faulty valve.	____________
13	A rubber ball hitting the ground and going back into the air.	____________
14	Loose windows in a window frame when a large vehicle passes nearby.	____________
15	The population of a town becoming bigger.	____________
16	A T-shirt which has been washed so often it has lost its colour.	____________
17	The sun coming up in the morning.	____________
18	The sun going down in the evening.	____________
19	A wheel on a slow-moving train.	____________
20	Traffic lights going from red to amber to green.	____________
21	Cliffs being slowly destroyed by the sea.	____________
22	Documents being laid out on a table.	____________
23	A wide river winding through the country side.	____________
24	The sun turning people on a beach bright red.	____________
25	An incense stick in the entrance to a temple.	____________
26	A lump of dry earth being rubbed between somebody’s fingers.	____________
27	Cold metal as it gets hotter.	____________
28	Hot metal as it gets cooler.	____________
29	A piece of elastic being pulled so that it becomes longer.	____________
30	A window being hit by a stone so that a long, thin break is formed.	____________
31	Coffee falling out of a cup by mistake.	____________
32	A bomb suddenly blowing up.	____________
33	An alarm clock suddenly going off.	____________
34	A boat going to the bottom of a river.	____________
35	Dead fish lying on the surface of a polluted lake.	____________
36	A volcano throwing out lave and ash.	____________
37	Orders for a new product arriving at a company very slowly.	____________

B.        Several of the words in the box above can have more than one meaning. Use your dictionary to check which ones, then complete these sentences below with an appropriate word. You will need to change the form of some of the words.

1	The queues for the embassy were so long they ____________ all the way down the street.
2	“What do you think you’re doing?” he ____________ angrily.
3	The government decided that the best economic course would be to let the dollar ____________
4	Prices have been ____________ steadily all year.
5	The light from the torch began to ____________ as the batteries ran out.
6	The twig ____________ loudly as he stood on it.
7	After the rainstorms passed, the floodwaters gradually ____________.
8	The discussion ____________ around the problem of student accommodation.
9	The doctor ____________ his broken arm.
10	The car ____________ out of control on the icy road.

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