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3 Wellingtons is the most likely word, since they are rubber boots designed to keep the water out.
Boots are any kind of high-sided footwear. Bootees suggests a kind of ankle-length shoe, fairly
lightweight, usually with fur inside for cold weather, often referring to what babies wear.
4 Dinghy would be a good word here (see 2 above), though sailing boat would also fit, as it's
quite general.
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5.4 1 education 2passport 3length 4liberty 5 revision 6 brother

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Unit 7

1 kip - to sleep / have a sleep
2 a pal - a friend; nowadays, mate is perhaps the most common informal word for 'friend' in
British English
3 a chap - a man; chap does have associations of being a middle-class word and perhaps not used
so much by young people
4 cheerio - goodbye; bye and ta-ta (pron: /ta tu:/) are also common, ta-ta being the most
informal
5 swot - study hard, e.g. for an exam; you can call someone a swot too
6 ta - thank you, or (slightly less formal) thanks
7 brainy - clever / intelligent; intelligent is the most formal.

Suggested changes:
JIM: Annie, can you lend me five quid?
ANNIE: What for?
JIM: Well, I've got to go and see my mum and dad, and my bike's not working, so 1'11 have to
take/get a taxi.
ANNIE: Can't you phone/ring/call them and say you can't come?
JIM: Well, I could, except I want to go because they always have lots of food, and the fridge at our
flat (or 'our place', which is a common way of talking about your housetflat) is empty, as usual.
ANNIE: Can't you get the / go by tube?
JIM: Erm.. .
ANNIE: Anyway, the answer's no.
For the sake of practice, we have created here a dialogue that probably has more of a
concentration of informal words than would occur in reality. Don't forget the advice given at the
beginning of the unit about using too much informal language.

1 A teenage boy would probably say a date (or 'Fancy going out?'), not an appointment in this
situation; appointment is for business contexts; too formal.
2 Offspring, if the parent used it, would be heard as humorous, certainly not the normal word for
this situation; children or kids (informal) would be the normal words. Offspring would be
suitable for legal contexts, religious language and serious history books/biographies; too
formal.
3 As with 2, this would be heard as humorous/mock-serious. Most people would say 'I never
drink' or 'I never touch alcohol' in this situation. Alcoholic beverages is very formal/legalistic
and you might see it on, e.g. a notice prohibiting drinking in a particular place or the sale of
drink at particular times; too formal.

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