Solutions Advanced Unit 1

Write a sentence with a phrasal verb you know very well, don´t forget to use it in the correct form and show that you know its meaning.

Write another sentence with another phrasal verb you know very well, don´t forget to use it in the correct form and show that you know its meaning.

I've been ___________ to think of that girl's name, but I just can't remember it.

• a memory like a sieve

• jogging my memory

• racking my brains

• taking me back

This album by Jay Z really ___________ to the summer when I first heard it.

• a memory like a sieve

• jogs my memory

• racks my brain

• takes me back

Sorry, I don't remember when we agreed to meet up. Can you ___________?

• a memory like a sieve

• jog my memory

• rack my brain

• take me back

I'll never remember to get all those things in town if I don't make a list. I've got ___________.

• a memory like a sieve

• jog my memory

• rack my brain

• take me back

My mind has completely _____the memory. I can't remember the accident at all.

• evoked

• blotted out

It's good to ______ about 'the old days' sometimes, but it isn't good to live in the past.

• recollect

• reminisce

This song vaguely ____________ but I can't remember where I heard it or who sings it.

Read about four sportspeople. Match people A–D with questions 1–5. Each person can be matched

with more than one question.

Which sportsperson ...Text A?

• reluctantly agreed to compete in one race?

• was helped to recover from an illness by someone in their family?

• was different to all their teammates in some way?

• lost a member of their family at an early age?