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Vocabulary Practice
Exercise 1: Test Yourself
- Chess strategy is concerned with setting up goals in the game.
- eye-level
- pawn
- A chess game may last up to several hours.
- bull
- pie
- The rook cannot move diagonally.
- Each player has sixteen pieces.
- A chessboard consists of light squares and dark squares.
- I play darts every Friday.
- Killer is a dart knock-out game.
- Each player has got eight pawns at the beginning.
- dark squares
- bishop
- You can't avoid check with castling.
- light squares
- pundit
- The knight has an L shaped style of moving.
- She won seven legs, but it was not enough to win the match.
- knock-out game
- occupied
- initial
- strategy
- The bishop is allowed to move diagonally.
- My dart got stuck in the bull.
- Bobby George is a darts pundit.
- instantly
- The centre of the target is called the bullseye.
- When you score a shanghai in the game of shanghai you win instantly.
- queen
- triple ring
- The king is the most valuable piece.
- leg
- unoccupied
- I have a pie with red and black segments.
- castling
- darts
- last
- Initial moves are often made with pawns.
- Chess tactics is concerned with gaining advantage through several moves.
- king
- rook
- tactics
- The queen combines the movements of the rook and the bishop.
- knight
- Pawns can only move forward to an unoccupied square.
- You capture your opponents piece when you move to an occupied square.
- He hit the triple ring right at the beginning.
- bullseye
- piece
- The target is placed at eye-level for a 180cm tall person.
Grammar Practice
Exercise 4: Substitution
- He said he had had no time to watch TV last week.
- He said he had gone to the cinema with his sister.
- He said the weather in the mountains had been great.
- He said he had had difficulty understanding him.
- He said he had driven from Prague to Budapest in three hours.
- He said he had cooked dinner for the whole family.