2. Vocabulary Plus. Word- building: prefixes.

Ex. 9a, p. 70

1. You have unrealistic expectations of life.

2. Your behavior is unpredictable and sometimes illogical.
3. You are dissatisfied with how your life has turned out.
4. You aren’t very keen on unfamiliar situations.
5. You are impatient with people who don’t understand technology.
6. You think you are immoral.
7. You are unwilling to change your mind about your opinions.
8. You misbehave to get people’s attention.
9. You sometimes feel insecure in groups and misinterpret what people say to you.
10. How much money you have is irrelevant. You’re just happy not to be unhealthy.

Ex. 10a, p. 70

1. A) the generation who were born before the pre-war?

B) the period of prehistory before written records?

2. a) the generation born after the post-war?

b) a university course taken after you postgraduate from your initial course?

3. a) the overtime you spend working in your job in addition to your normal working hours?
b) people who are forced to overwork too much or too hard?

4. a) someone who isn’t the minimum underage to see an X-certificate film?

b) someone who doesn’t have enough underqualifications to get a job?

Ex. 1a, p. 153

1. Very small – micro

2. Very big – mega
3. Many – multi
4. Between – inter
5. Two – bi
6. Across – trans

1b

Bilingual, bicycle, bimonthly.

Multilingual, multinational, multimedia, multitask, multi-storey.
Microchip, microwave, microphone, microscope.
Megaphone, megacity, megabyte.
Translate, transport, transit.
International, interval, interview.

1c
1. I left my car in one of those huge multi-storey car parks and now I can’t find it.
2. It’s a long opera but there are two intervals. We can take a break and have a coffee then.
 3. I’ve never really been to Hong Kong, only in the airport when I was in transit on my way to Beijing.
4. The crowd was so noisy, I had to use a megaphone to make my voice loud enough.
5. He didn’t get the job because he was late for the interview.
6. No, it’s too small. You can only see it under a microscope.
7. Our newsletter only goes out bimonthly. It’s January now, so the next one is in March.
8. People who grow up in a multilingual environment and up understanding three or more languages.

Ex. 2, p. 71
1. The websites holds a letter you write and sends it to you on a date you pick.
2. Good idea, because then we can compare ourselves. What we were and what we became.
What we have changed in ourselves, what we have lost. In my opinion, it would be very
interesting to read such a letter.

Ex. 3a, p. 71
1. She wrote about studies, relationship and family.
2. The letter is romantic. It is generally optimistic.
3b
1. I envisage myself at Oxford Uni, sitting under a tree and wearing something floaty.
2. I know, I’m romantic. I hope that hasn’t changed.
3. I hope, I’ll have someone.
4. I think I’ll have three children with long brown hair and green eyes.
5. I want to write everything I can down, but I’m running out of time.
6. Don’t change too much, and be happy with who you are.
3c
1. Laura now sees her sixteen-year-old self as shallow, unrealistic.
2. She feels very happy, ecstatic at the way her life has turned out.

4.Grammar. Future Perfect and Continuous.

Ex. 4a, p. 71
1 – a, 2 – b.
Ex. 4b
1. Have, past participle
2. Be, -ing form.
Ex. 4c
1. In ten years’ time, I expect I’ll own a flat.
2. I’ll have finished the report by 12 and certainly no later than that.
Ex. 5a, p. 71
1. By the end of the day, do you think you’ll have received more than fifty emails?
2. At 9p.m. tonight, will you be watching TV? If so, what?
3. Do you think you’ll have fallen asleep by midnight tonight?
4. This time next year, will you still be studying English and will you have passed any English exams?
5. Do you expect you will still like the same kind of music a few years from now?
6. In twenty years’ time, will you be living in the same town, do you think?
Ex. 6.2a 139
1. At nine, I’ll be watching the film.
By eleven, the film will have finished.
 2. At midnight she’ll probably be waiting her luggage.
By the time we wake up tomorrow, she’ll have arrived.
3. In ten minutes from now, he’ll have eaten over sixty hotdogs.
Tonight in his sleep, he’ll be dreaming about hotdogs!
4. By this time tomorrow, I’ll have decided.
This time next week, I’ll be wishing I had decided differently.
Ex. 6.2b
1. Will you be seeing Frank today?
Yes, could you tell him I probably won’t have finished the report until tomorrow.
2. Just think – this time tomorrow you’ll have finished all your exams.
And you’ll be celebrating with your friends.
3. Will you be using your computer at lunchtime today?
I might still be using it when you get back. The technicians might not have fixed mine by then.