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Many of your answers will depend on your own particular interests and needs. It is only possible
for the key to suggest answers in some cases.

Unit I

B 1 Some possible answers:
a) a chilly day
b) to dissuade someone from doing something
c) a popular king / to crown a king
d) up to the ears in work
e) independent of someone / an independent country
f) get married to someone
2 a) scissors - only used in plural; if you want to count scissors, you have to say, for example,
'two pairs of scissors'.
b) weather - uncountable
C) teach, taught, taught; teach someone to do something; teach someone French.
d) advice - uncountable; a piece of advice; verb = to advise (regular).
e) lose, lost, lost
f) trousers - only used in plural; if you want to count trousers you have to say, for example,
'three pairs of trousers'.
3 a) The 'b' in comb is silent, as it is in tomb and lamb too.
b) The final 'e' in catastrophe is pronounced as a syllable as it is in apostrophe. Catastrophe,
has 4 syllables. (See Index for pronunciation)
C) The stress is on the first syllable in &tograph, and on the second syllable in photographer;
it is on the third syllable in photographical. The 'rule' is that the stress in long words in
English very frequently falls on the third syllable from the end of the word.

D The picture is a good clue to help you understand tortoise. You may recognise the word shell in
shelled (as in egg shell, for example). Similarly, your knowledge of life and long together with the
context should enable you to work out what lifespan and longevity mean. The whole context of
the sentence should help you to work out the meaning of tended. Some of the underlined words
may be similar to words in your own language which can be another useful way of working out
the meaning of a word you have not seen before.
Research into language learning can help you to prepare a sensible vocabulary learning plan.
What you plan to do will, of course, depend very much on your own circumstances. You cannot
realistically aim to learn as many new words a day if you are working a full day at something else
as if you are doing a full-time English course. In general, however, 10 to 20 words a week is
probably a reasonable aim.
It does not matter where you try to learn vocabulary but it seems to be better to do a little on a
regular basis rather than a lot infrequently. Research also suggests that it is a good idea to revise
your work on a very regular basis - once a week, perhaps, but do not revise only the words that
you've learnt in that week. Look back over your work of the previous month(s).
Unit 2

1 Possible words to add: purr, scratch, tomcat, tail and whiskers
2 a) Child, tooth and ox are all words with irregular plurals (children, teeth, oxen). You could
add more examples, e.g. mouse (mice); goose (geese); foot (feet); phenomenon
(phenomena).

English Vocabulary in Use