Unit 3
Unit 3 Extra practice
1 Wordsnake
Find nine sports related to water.
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SWIMMING
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IN
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2 Crossword
NO
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GS
R
SU
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LK
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FT
IN
Complete this crossword with the words missing from the sentences.
1
2
F
R
3
4
E
S
L
5
H
G
6
C
7
P
8
U
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Down
1 The water in our oceans is not
fresh
water.
water each day.
2 Some women in Kenya spend hours
4 Many people in the
7 Europeans should
world have to fetch their own water from rivers.
more water, or they could run out of it one day.
Across
3 Approximately 70% of the Earth’s surface is
in water.
of five hours a day.
5 The women who carry water in Kenya walk for a(n)
6 Most Europeans use around 200
8 Many people in the world don’t have
of water per day.
water in their homes.
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Unit 3
Unit 3 Extra practice
3 Word scramble
Unscramble the words to find places with water.
pool
1LOPO
2RAMIAN
3NECOA
4ASE
5FERALWALT
6VERSORIER
7VIRRE
8KALE
9METSAR
4 Synonyms
Complete the sentences with these synonyms of the words in brackets. Use the correct form.
get
get closer to
get into
get out of
get out of
get to
get worse
1 John was lucky to
2 Most people
3 If the weather
4 The swimmer was very tired when he finally
5 They rowed as fast as they could, but they weren’t
6 It was a freezing cold day and I didn’t want to
(escape from) the dangerous current in the sea.
(receive) a lot of pleasure from swimming in the sea.
(doesn’t improve), we won’t go to the beach.
(reached) dry land.
(moving towards) the shore.
(enter) the water, but I had to.
5 Complete the sentences with these words.
alarm
deep
drown
float
iceberg
wreck
1 The passengers wore lifejackets to help them
float
2 A man fell from the boat into the
water.
3 The captain sounded the ship’s
4 Titanic sank after it hit a(n)
in the North Atlantic Ocean.
5 James Cameron visited the
of Titanic before he made the movie.
6 The boy was lucky not to
if the boat sank.
when the ship started to sink.
after he fell into the river.
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