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Exercises

How would you personally expect the following things to feel?
1 The cover of a well-produced brochure. 6 The inside of a pair of sheepskin gloves.
2 The feathers in a pillow or duvet. 7 The edge of a piece of broken, rusty metal.
3 A wet bar of soap. 8 Heavy, stone-ground wholemeal flour.
4 The branches of a rose-bush. 9 The surface of a mirror.
5 A gravel pathway. 10 An old, dead log on the forest floor.
Look round your own house/flat and find:
1 something sleek to the touch 4 something furry
2 something rough underfoot 5 something smooth
3 something with a polished surface

Here are the commonest British weights with their metric equivalents. Try and answer the
questions that follow.

I weight written as approximate metric equivalent

ounce oz
28 grams 1 used for goods in shops, etc.
pounds Ib 454 grams
I stone st 6.3 kilos } used for personal weight

1 A friend tells you her new baby weighed seven pounds at birth. Is this a huge, tiny or
more or less average baby?
2 Someone tells you their cousin weighs 20 stone. What would you expect the cousin to
look like?
3 You ask someone to get you a piece of cheese at the market, enough for you personally
for a week. They ask if 8 ounces will do. What would you say?
4 Make a note (a private one if you wish!) of your approximate weight in British terms.

Quiz. Name the following.
1 A creature with a sleek coat. 4 A creature with a furry coat.
2 A slippery creature. 5 A creature with a downy coat.
3 A prickly creature.

Pair-puzzles. Each word has a letter in it that is part of a related word from the left-hand
page. Fill in the letters, as in the example.

Can you make pair-puzzles with cumbersome, lead and feather?

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