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Exercise 1
2. refused
3. agreed
4. promised
5. reminded
6. advised
7. invited
8. denied
9. admitted
10.regretted
11.suggested
12.accused
Exercise 2
Exercise 1
1 up 2 without 3 up 4 out 5 up
Exercise 2
1 WAR 2 your best 3 profit 4 business with 5 allowances for 6 a good impression
Exercise 3
FRIDAY 17.04.
READING
Exercise 1
Papua New Guinea: 830 languages; Reasons: 1 climate 2 tribal groups use language to mark
territories.
The world: 7,000; Reasons: 1 political 2 geographical 3
Exercise 2
2T 3F 4NG 5T 6F 7NG 8F
LISTENING
PART 1
No Country for Old Men: She still doesn't know what Tommy Lee Jones said in the last scene
because of his accent.
A Polish-English phonetics class: She took this class at university and learnt a lot about mistakes
she was making.
Sounding posh: People said she sounded posh when she first came to England because of her
pronunciation. She didn't think they were complimenting her.
Strong regional or foreign accents: These can be hard for her to understand.
PART 2
- She assumes they want to be mean and point out that her English is not that good.
- She learnt it yesterday when she was reading a description of the film The Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Her emails in Polish are direct and straight to the point, whereas her English emails are more
polite.
- Her partner's family, who are from a small Scottish village, used these expressions. Bairn means
child and doon the brae means down the hill.