21 1. Find the following phrases in the text and pick five to make sentences: Paragraph 1: more than; along with France: at the start of; die of; lead to; stand for; rid…of; substitute…with USA: make up; have a say/ have one’s say; split from; remind… of Indonesia: date back to; have a link with ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Choose from the above phrases to fill in the blanks, making changes if necessary. 1. I can’t help you, for I don’t ______________ in the plan. 2. The project aims to _________ this area _________ poverty. 3. At that time girls were not supposed to go to school, so girl students only _____________ 5% of the student numbers. 4. The history of human beings may _____________ the Ice Age. 5. You can ___________ beef ___________ chicken if you don’t like red meat. 6. There is evidence proving that skin cancer _______________ exposure to the sun. 7. He was feeling blue for so long because his pet dog ______________ an unknown disease. 8. Red represents the color of sugar while white ______________ rice on the Indonesian flag.
3. Write a paragraph to describe the Olympic flag, using the sentence patterns we have found in the reading passage. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
