Answer Sheet for Unit 11

Section 1: Vocabulary Practice

Exercise 1: Test Yourself

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

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