Outcomes Intermediate Unit 8

1. 1.1 Choose the correct option:

• We tend eat out three or four times a month.

• We tend to eat out three or four times a month.

• We are tend to eat out three or four times a month.

• We are tending to eat out three or four times a month.

Answer explanation

"tend to": Used to describe a habitual or general behavior. It is placed before the main verb ("eat") to indicate a tendency.

1. 1.2 Choose the correct option:

• Usually Amy cooks organic food at the weekend.

• Amy cooks organic food at the weekend usually.

• Amy cooks usually organic food at the weekend.

• Amy usually cooks organic food at the weekend.

Answer explanation

"usually": An adverb of frequency. It is positioned before the main verb ("cooks") to describe how often something happens.

1. 1.3 Choose the correct option:

• We not tend to go to restaurants very often.

• We tend not to / don’t tend to go to restaurants very often.

• We don’t tend go to restaurants very often.

• We tend not go to restaurants very often.

Answer explanation

tend not to" / "don’t tend to": Negative form of "tend to," used to describe a lack of habit or tendency. It is placed before the main verb ("go").

1. 1.4 Choose the correct option:

• Some of the restaurants don’t normally open on Mondays.

• Some of the restaurants don’t open normally on Mondays.

• Some of the restaurants normally don’t open on Mondays.

• Normally some of the restaurants don’t open on Mondays.

Answer explanation

"normally": An adverb of frequency, placed before the main verb ("open") to indicate typical behavior.

1. 1.5 Choose the correct option:

• Restaurants in this area offer, generally speaking, good value

  for money.

• Restaurants in this area offer good value

  for money, generally speaking.

• Restaurants in this area, generally speaking, offer good value

  for money.

• Generally speaking, restaurants in this area offer good value

  for money.

Answer explanation

"Generally speaking": A phrase used at the beginning to make a general statement, followed by the main clause.

1. 1.6 Choose the correct option:

• Spicy food doesn't tend to be popular with

  younger people.

• Spicy food isn't tend to be popular with

  younger people.

• Spicy food isn't tend to popular with

  younger people.

• Spicy food doesn't tend to popular with

  younger people.

Answer explanation

Similar to sentence 3, "tends not to" or "doesn’t tend to" is used to indicate a lack of popularity, positioned before the verb ("be").

2.1 Put the words in order to make second conditional sentences, starting with "if":

If / we / more organic food / used / the environment / protect / we’d

Answer explanation

If we used more organic food, we’d protect the environment.

• "used" is past simple, and "we’d protect" follows the second conditional format.

2.2 Put the words in order to make second conditional sentences, starting with "John":

John / eat / vegetables / would / only / the rest of his

family / meat / so much / if / didn’t / like

Answer explanation

John would only eat vegetables if the rest of his family didn’t like meat so much.

• Structure: "would only eat" ("would" + base verb) + "if" + "didn’t like" (past simple).

• Explanation: Describes a hypothetical condition where John’s eating habits depend on his family’s preferences.

2.3 Put the words in order to make second conditional sentences, starting with "If":

If / a / were / good / I / cook / open / a / restaurant /

would / I

Answer explanation

If I were a good cook, I would open a restaurant.

• Structure: "If" + "were" (past simple) + "I would open" ("would" + base verb).

• Explanation: Imagines a hypothetical scenario where being a good cook would lead to opening a restaurant.

2.4 Put the words in order to make second conditional sentences, starting with "If":

If / you / I / were / wouldn’t / eat / that / I / cake

Answer explanation

If I were you, I wouldn’t eat that cake.

• Structure: "If" + "were" (past simple) + "I wouldn’t eat" ("wouldn’t" + base verb).

• Explanation: Hypothetical advice imagining being in someone else’s position.