Ready for C1 p 24. If You Want to Be a Good Lover, Be a Great Hater. Verb Form Gap Fill

 

Read the following text and fill in the gaps with the verb that best fits each space using the correct verb form of the verbs below. There are TWO extra verbs you will not need. The activity begins with an example (0).

be, take, say, call, persuade, turn out, entertain, have, offer, indulge, strike, feel, look, revolt, find, date 

A new app (0) offers to help single people (1) a partner by uniting them not with others who like the same things, such as opera, vegan sausages and pedigree cats, but with people who share their dislikes.

It (2) Hater and (3) me as quite brilliant. ‘Likes’ tell you nothing about anyone. ‘Good food, great music, and lively conversation…’. ‘Laughter, red wine, and French movies…’. Ugh. The idea that a romantic life together is about sharing your stupid hobbies is deluded and childish. Love is about making something completely new out of two separate individuals, not finding activities those two individuals can do together (4) their minds off how boring and unsexy the other one (5).

My wife and I have absolutely no interests in common. None. But we do love hating things together. From the moment she (6) in my eyes, she could sense that I (7) by theatre, motorcyclists, tall people, and (8) at home. Just as I knew from the first kiss that this was a woman who (9) no time for sandals on men, skiing, supermarket own-brand loo paper, or poached fish. Indeed, it later (10) that the main thing she liked about me was that I laughed when she was rude about our friends, whereas all her previous boyfriends (11), ‘Why can’t you just be nice?’

But being nice is meaningless. Liking things is weak. Our natural human hatred of things should (12) every day. Hating is natural and fine and people want to do it. Celebrate the things you dislike every day and you (13) much better – and probably find love.

 

 

KEY

 

 

1. find/ to find 

 

 

 

 

2. ’s called  

 

 

 

 

3. strikes 

 

 

 

 

4. to take 

 

 

 

 

5. is 

 

 

 

 

6. looked 

 

 

 

 

7. was revolted 

 

 

 

 

8. entertaining 

 

 

 

 

9. had 

 

 

 

 

10. turned out 

 

 

 

 

11. had said 

 

 

 

 

 

12. be indulged 

 

 

 

 

13. ’ll feel 

 

EXTRA VERBS: date, persuade 

Ready for C1 p 24. KPop Demon Hunters Smash of the Summer. Verb Form Gap Fill

VERB FORM GAP FILL. Read the following text and fill in the gaps with the verb that best fits each space using the correct verb form affirmative or negative. There are TWO extra verbs you will not need. The activity begins with an example (0).

be,come across, occupy, defeat, release, become, stream, lead, struggle, do, harm

KPop Demon Hunters Smash of the Summer

School is out, young audiences (0) are available, and yet still, Hollywood animation is having a bad summer at the box office. In contrast to last year, when Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4 (1) two of the season’s top three, it seems entirely possible that not a single fully animated movie will hit the top 10. To make things worse, the Disney-Pixar original Elio (2) by “live-action” remakes of Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon.

With younger audiences guided toward those movies, Netflix has somehow managed to have its biggest animated movie ever: KPop Demon Hunters. This movie is about three women who form a pop group while moonlighting as, yes, demon hunters. It (3) in June – on the same weekend as Elio, no less – and it (4) a major phenomenon.

Animation seems like a safe bet. On a per-person basis, (5) a new cartoon is the most affordable option. But even after hiring film-makers from major animation studios, the streamers (6) with original material. So why did KPop Demon Hunters break through?

KPop uses bright, shifting animation inspired by comic books and anime. But though KPop Demon Hunters has some adult themes and scary monsters, it’s also aimed at young people. The movie repackages K-pop for an even-broader audience of native English speakers (something K-pop itself (7) for years at this point).

As with many superhero hits, probably the movie’s success (8) to numerous sequels and renewed enthusiasm for streaming animation. In the wake of so many sequels, KPop Demon Hunters is a reminder that kids in particular hunger for novelty, probably more so than their nostalgic adult counterparts.

KEY

0 ARE

1 OCCUPIED

2 HAS BEEN DEFEATED/WAS DEFEATED

3 WAS RELEASED

4 HAS BECOME/BECAME

5 STREAMING

6 HAVE STRUGGLED / ARE STRUGGLING

7 HAS BEEN DOING

8 WILL LEAD

Ready for C1 p 20. THE FUTURE OF HUMAN CREATIVITY. VERB FORM GAP FILL.

 Read the following text and fill in the gaps with the verb that best fits each space using the correct verb form of the verbs below. There are TWO extra verbs you will not need. The activity begins with an example (0).

affect 

confine 

arise 

grapple with

mimic 

raise 

win 

remain 

reshape 

undergo

THE FUTURE OF HUMAN CREATIVITY

Few developments in recent history (0) have reshaped the collective imagination as much as artificial intelligence. What once (1) to science fiction has now entered classrooms, studios, and boardrooms alike. Entire creative industries (2) transformation, as algorithms compose, design, and even edit faster than any human ever could. Not until the first AI-generated novel (3) a literary prize did society begin to question the nature of authorship itself. Were machines to perfect emotional imitation, what, then, (4) distinctly human about art? Some argue that true creativity lies in imperfection — in the tension between intention and error. Others insist that AI merely reflects our collective patterns and biases, nothing more. Yet, as systems move towards (5) creativity itself, that distinction grows increasingly fragile. Philosophers warn that if we fail to adapt, we may soon find ourselves spectators of our own culture. Only after humanity finds the way (6) the implications of its inventions will the balance between innovation and meaning be restored — if it ever can. In the meantime, a question (7) with renewed urgency: will creativity be something we express, or something we delegate? Whatever the outcome, future generations will inevitably inherit a world that has been altered beyond recognition.




KEY

0 HAVE RESHAPED

1 WAS CONFINED

2 HAVE UNDERGONE / ARE UNDERGOING

3 HAD WON / WON

4 WOULD REMAIN

5 MIMICKING

6 TO GRAPPLE WITH

7 ARISES