Build up Your Vocabulary for IELTS-Key Word:Safety

Key Word:Safety

Verb+Safety

1. Use the correct form of these verbs:

1. Army officers told the journalists it was such a dangerous area that they could not______their safety.
2. The refugees walked for nearly a week until they______safety.
3. Railway companies have dismissed fears that staff cuts will______safety. They say they are not putting profit before people’s lives.
4. These new measures are designed to______safety in our schools.

Expressions with Prepositions

2. Complete the sentences with these expressions:

1. In the crowded streets of the city centre it is difficult to find a place where children can play______.
2. The boat sank about a hundred metres from the shore, but we all managed to swim______.
3. The police are concerned______a three-year-old boy who has been missing for two days.
4. In the safari park you can watch the lions______your car.
5. Smoking and the use of mobile phones are not permitted on board this plane______.

Safety+Noun

3. Complete the sentences below with these nouns:

1. Farmers need to take safety______and wear protective clothing when spraying pesticides onto their crops.
2. The area in the park near where the children play has been fenced off for safety______.
3. This hall does not conform to safety______. That’s why we can’t let the public use it.
4. Very stringent safety checks are carried out on all our planes. That’s why this airline has such an excellent safety______.
5. Our engineers have incorporated all the latest safety______into the design of this car.
6. As the plane prepared for take-off, the cabin crew demonstrated the safety______.

Noun+Preposition+Safety

4. Cross out the wrong preposition in these sentences:

1. There is growing concern about/on the safety of mobile phones.
2. German cars have a reputation on/for safety and reliability.
3. In the interests of/in safety, smoking is forbidden in the cinema.
4. This latest accident has raised doubts in/about the safety of the aircraft.
5. The firemen led the women out of the burning building to a place of/in safety.
6. With no thought to/of her own safety, she dived into the river to save the drowning child.

Answer Key

Ex 1:

1. guarantee
2. reached
3. compromise
4. improve

Ex 2:

1. in safety
2. to safety
3. for the safety of
4. from the safety of
5. for your own safety

Ex 3:

1. precautions
2. reasons
3. regulations
4. record
5. features
6. procedures

Ex 4:

1. concern about
2. reputation for
3. interests of
4. doubts about
5. place of
6. thought of

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