4 atheneum - Review Units 2 & 3

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Texting your way to the top is quite ... good book but it's a bit heavy-going in some ways.

A lot of the information is from ... recent research that's been done and that makes it rather hard to read at times.

We all write ... texts

but I'm not sure they're so important as to justify ... whole book

but I'm not sure they're so important as to justify a whole book on ... subject.

It might have been better to make it into a chapter in a book on ... good business communication.

Another thing is, who's going to read it? If you are ... kind of person who ends a relationship by sending a text,

you certainly wouldn't be reading ... book like this.

I suppose you might find it useful if you had just moved to ... English-speaking country

and didn't really know what ... conventions were about this sort of thing there but it's quite expensive at 50 euros.

Talking to yourself actually helps improve cognitive performance. If you don't believe me, ask a primary school teacher. They will know children ... are given a task and talk themselves through it.

Other children will just do their work in silence, ... on the surface appears to show greater concentration.

But ask the school teacher if they know which ones perform better in tests and appear to 'get' things more quickly. They'll tell you, it is the children ... verbal reasoning skills are more developed because they talk themselves through a task.

Now, evidence from research ... was carried out in the USA bears this theory out.

Researchers tested the ability of people to find objects in pictures. Those ... talked to themselves were able to find the objects more quickly.

We really must learn to use less water.
VITAL
It is ........ to use less water.

Elderly people sometimes deeply mistrust techonology.
HAVE
Elderly people sometimes ........ technology.

The council are the ones that should do something about graffiti.
THAT
It's ............ something about graffiti.

Very few people make an effort to recycle their rubbish, which I find astonishing.
HOW
It's .......... make an effort to recylce their rubbish.

He knows a lot of colloquial English.
EXCELLENT
He ....... of colloquial English.