Answer Sheet for Unit 11

Section 1: Vocabulary Practice

Exercise 1: Test Yourself

1. seminar
2. to abolish
3. boss
4. to formulate
5. war
6. guidance
7. citizen
8. jargon
9. to achieve
10. to attend
11. approval
12. proposal
13. lasting
14. application
15. threat
16. to treat fairly
17. to aim
18. structural funds
19. draft
20. safety; security
21. candidate
22. legislation
23. justice
24. rules
25. gender equality
26. awareness
27. to merge
28. policies
29. elections
30. feedback
31. taxes
32. government
33. to replace
34. law
35. European dimension
36. project lifetime
37. borders
38. benefits
39. implementing
40. integration
41. outlying regions
42. to maintain
43. outline
44. deadline
45. enlargement
46. frontier-free
47. to promote
48. measures
49. founding fathers

Section 2: Listening Comprehension

Exercise 1: Multiple Choice Questions

1. Paperwork for an EU project.
2. They will assist in formulating the proposal.
3. To ask for his approval to go to the National Agency seminar.

Exercise 2: Multiple Choice Questions

1. 25 countries
2. Follow the rules.
3. They think that they will benefit from the changes the EU makes.
4. Through helping people to earn enough money and be treated fairly.
5. People's rights in the member countries of the EU.

Exercise 3: Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the Second World War.
2. It began with the creation of the Coal and Steel Community.
3. Six members
4. In 1992 with the Treaty of Maastricht.
5. 12.

Section 3: General Comprehension

Exercise 1: True/False Statements

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

Section 4: Grammar Practice

Exercise 1: Transformation

1. I live in Austria now but I used to live in Turkey.
2. Martina plays golf now but she she used to play tennis.
3. I use email now but I used to use ordinary mail.
4. Europe has peace now but it used to have a lot of wars.
5. Janet works in Brussels now but she used to work in London.
6. There are 25 countries in the EU now but there used to be 15.

Exercise 2: Transformation

1. Yes, but it didn't use to have 25 members.
2. Yes, but they didn't use to hold the conference in July.
3. Yes, but they didn't use to use the euro.
4. Yes, but they didn't use to be members of the EU.
5. Yes, but it didn't use to be a political union.
6. Yes, but they didn't use to spend their time watching TV.

Exercise 3: Transformation

1. Where did you use to live?
2. Where did he use to work?
3. What did they use to learn?
4. How much did you use to earn?
5. Where did he use to go?
6. When did they use to have it?

Exercise 4: Selections

1. Do you think your country will benefit from the EU?
2. Don't worry. You'll soon get used to it.
3. I have no idea how to do this.
4. Have you had any feedback yet?
5. Can people move freely all over Europe?
6. Why do they want to join the EU?
7. The euro was introduced in 2002.
8. Where's Hungary? - It's in Eastern Europe.
9. I'm used to it now.
10. Did you attend the conference?

Section 5: Consolidation

Exercise 1: True/False Statements

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

Exercise 2: Dictation

1. The political vision of the EU's founding fathers was to build a solidly united Europe. To achieve a European dimension, measures implementing solidarity and integration have been created in very practical areas such as the single market, agricultural policies, competition, free movement of goods, capital and services, technical standards and policies that protect the environment.

Exercise 3: Cloze

1. living
2. from
3. Every
4. the
5. as
6. at
7. in
8. where
9. of
10. from

Exercise 4: Gap Filling

1. spend
2. developed
3. involve
4. often
5. member
6. most
7. people
8. more
9. have to
10. do
11. stand
12. freely
13. from
14. safety
15. used
16. feedback
17. for
18. held
19. equality
20. policies