UNIT 8

Exercise 2:
2 flower gardens
3 vegetable gardens
4 work horses
5 show horses
6 house cats
7 family dogs
8 dog house
9 strawberry jam
10 blackberry tea
11 peach pie
12 kitchen table
13 childhood memories
14 childhood dreams
15 baby sister
16 summer night

Exercise 3:
2 one two-hundred-year-old dining room table
3 eight velvet-covered dining room chairs
4 two century-old Tiffany lamps
5 one silver-plated samovar
6 one leaded crystal chandelier
7 two hundred-fifty-year-old rocking chairs
8 one hand-woven Persian carpet
9 one hand-written manuscript
10 three ivory-inlaid coffee tables
11 four hand-painted serving
12 two hand-carved mahogany beds
13 two hundred-thirty-year-old, gold-inlaid vases

Exercise 4:
2 local convenience store
3 students ethics council
4 international student activities
5 old, dilapidated houses
6 attention deficit disorder
7 Four-Year Service Award
8 Five-State Volunteerism Award

Exercise 5:
glamorous publishing world
beautiful southwest Montana
clear, blue skies
dirty, gray smog
mysterious respiratory ailment
ten-day siege
four-room apartment
dreary, cement jail cell
prized new job
feverish, forty-two-year-old body
Gigantic iron hammers
Huge, black lead weights
Two-hour rest
Unspeakably rude New York reception
First three weeks

Exercise 6
In next 10 years, I expect that my parents will be continue living in Saigon with my younger and
me. At that time, I will be 28 years old, and my brother will be 25 years old, we will have the
stable careers. I hope I can have my own family and my own beautiful children and I am able to
take care of all of them.