Answer Sheet for Unit 9

Index:

Section 1: Vocabulary Practice

Exercise 1: Test Yourself

  1. to claim
  2. residential home
  3. to fund
  4. caring
  5. maintenance
  6. foster home
  7. to assess
  8. to apply for
  9. contributory
  10. claim
  11. allowance
  12. pension scheme
  13. support
  14. rate
  15. application
  16. welfare
  17. community
  18. wages
  19. to qualify
  20. asylum seeker
  21. unemployment
  22. awarded
  23. rights
  24. retirement
  25. adoption
  26. salary
  27. lone parent
  28. recreation
  29. visual impairment
  30. social worker
  31. health
  32. voluntary work
  33. migrant
  34. means test
  35. benefit
  36. scheme
  37. to award
  38. disadvantaged
  39. social services
  40. entitled
  41. day centre
  42. nurse
  43. disability
  44. orphan
  45. insurance
  46. widow
  47. child support
  48. counselling
  49. dependants
  50. rehabilitation

Section 2: Listening Comprehension

Exercise 1: Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Out of work.
  2. He has been working.
  3. Two months.
  4. Yes.
  5. No.
  6. Unemployment benefits

Exercise 2: Multiple Choice Questions

  1. She is a lone parent.
  2. He has been sent to prison.
  3. Jacky has a baby boy.
  4. Child support and a prison allowance.
  5. Assess her situation

Exercise 3: Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Blind and visually impaired people.
  2. An eye test and a means test.
  3. Is a fixed personal rate and an amount for dependants.
  4. A pass for free travel on all kinds of public transport.
  5. A supplementary income maintenance payment.

Exercise 4: Multiple Choice Questions

  1. 134.80 euros per week.
  2. 16.80 euros
  3. Goes up.
  4. Yes.

Exercise 5: Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Living with her daughter.
  2. She has accepted a new job in a different part of the country.
  3. Annie's pension and the money from the sale of the house

Section 3: General Comprehension

Exercise 1: True/False Statements

  1. TRUE
  2. TRUE
  3. TRUE
  4. FALSE
  5. TRUE
  6. TRUE
  7. TRUE
  8. FALSE
  9. TRUE

Section 4: Grammar Practice

Exercise 1: Transformation

  1. When did you apply?
  2. When did she go?
  3. When did she have it?
  4. When did you receive it?
  5. When did she get it?
  6. When did he take it?

Exercise 2: Transformation

  1. Where did you find it?
  2. Where did she go?
  3. Where did she have it?
  4. Where did you lose it?
  5. Where did he get it?
  6. Where did he take it?

Exercise 3: Transformation

  1. Yes, I applied last week.
  2. Yes, she went last week.
  3. Yes, she had it last week.
  4. Yes, I received it last week.
  5. Yes, she got one last week.
  6. Yes, he took it last week.

Exercise 4: Transformation

  1. Yes, I've already received it.
  2. Yes, I've already filled it in.
  3. Yes, I've already been.
  4. Yes, she's already gone.
  5. Yes, he's already found it.
  6. Yes, I've already finished.

Exercise 5: Transformation

  1. No, I haven't received it yet.
  2. No, I haven't filled it in yet.
  3. No, I haven't been yet.
  4. No, she hasn't gone yet.
  5. No, he hasn't found it yet.
  6. No, I haven't finished yet.

Exercise 6: Selections

  1. A lot of people asked for asylum in Britain last year.
  2. Where did you take your test?
  3. Has her husband died yet?
  4. I've already sent the application form.
  5. I've been out of work for six months now.
  6. I thought you received an increase last month.

Section 5: Consolidation

Exercise 1: True/False Statements

  1. TRUE
  2. FALSE
  3. TRUE
  4. TRUE
  5. TRUE
  6. TRUE
  7. TRUE
  8. FALSE
  9. TRUE
  10. TRUE

Exercise 2: Dictation

  1. Payments made under the social insurance system are funded by contributions from employers and employees. Any deficit is met by State subsidy. Entitlement to social insurance benefits depends on the person claiming (the claimant) having paid a certain number of contributions in a specific period of time. On the other hand, social assistance payments do not depend on contributions made by the claimant, and are paid for by State funding.

Exercise 3: Cloze

  1. The
  2. for
  3. into
  4. are
  5. of
  6. such
  7. means
  8. under
  9. Any
  10. other

Exercise 4: Gap Filling

  1. claim
  2. fill in
  3. care for
  4. yet
  5. made up
  6. for
  7. low
  8. contributions
  9. subsidy
  10. free
  11. wages and salary
  12. lone
  13. job
  14. assess
  15. last
  16. mean
  17. looking
  18. divided
  19. down
  20. low
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