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Vocabulary

1. Match the words from the first column with their synonym or definition from the second column.

|1. owner ( N) | |a) to say you are not satisfied with something |

|2. fortune (N) | |b) to notice;s ee something |

|3. arrange (V) | |c) money you pay to protect your life, car, gadgets, home etc |

|4. vehicle (N) | |d) the thought you give to something; focus |

|5. spot (V) | |e) press the accelerator pedal in a car |

|6. attract (V) | |f) a very large amount of money |

|7. attention (N) | |g) rich, wealthy |

|8. number plate (N) | |h) machine that you travel in or on |

|9. insurance (N) | |i) to organise something |

|10. resident (N) | |j) someone who legally possesses something |

|11. complain (V) | |k) to make someone interested |

|12. affluent (Adj) | |l) someone who lives in a particular place |

|13. rev (V) | |m) official sign on the front and back of a vehicle |

Reading

Find the answers to the questions in the text.

1. How much do car owners pay to have their cars transported to the UK?

2. Who often organises the transport of cars?

3. How long do the cars stay in the UK?

4. Who are the cars popular with and why?

5. Why are residents of Knightsbridge unhappy with some supercar drivers?

Speaking

Choose one of the photos below and write a short news article to go with the image. Report to your partner.

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Millionaire Boy Racers

The car owners, many of them from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait, will happily pay a small fortune - of over £20,000 for a return journey - for their metal toys to be flown around 3,000 miles, and often leave them parked up on the streets of Knightsbridge.

The Arabs often use agents to arrange their cars to be flown to the UK - and some of these guys can have two or three cars that they bring over for just one month.

The vehicles spotted in central London over the past few weeks - following the end of Ramadan - often attract the attention of tourists.

Once they arrive, some of the over-the-top autos attract the attention of the police too – because of incorrect number plates and insurance or bad parking.

Residents in affluent Knightsbridge have complained that some drivers are revving the cars and using the exclusive area as their personal racetrack.

Adapted from Source: dailymail.co.uk 14 August 2014

Skim the text and answer the questions:

1. Which country does the article take place in?

2. What does the article say about car owners and their vehicles?

My new vocabulary

With your partner discuss what you know about the cars below:

2. Put the words from the first column into gapped sentences

1. London ________ millions of tourists every year.

2. You can take out mobile phone _______ if you worry you will lose it or break it.

3. He spend a ___________ on his new car!

4. The driver ____________ the engine and drove off.

5. Pay particular __________ to new words we are looking at today.

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Speaking & Reading

ALFC 2016

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