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1 OAPs - British English for 'Old age pensioners': retired people or senior citizens; on a museum
entrance.
2 WC - 'water closet': a lavatory; Gents - gentlemen; on a door in a pub.
3 US - United States of America; POWs - prisoners of war; newspaper headline.
4 CFC - Chloro-fluoro-carbons: nasty chemicals sometimes found in sprays, which can damage
the ozone layer; on an aerosol can.
5 Dep - depart; Arr - arrive; on an airline timetable.

3 UFO (pron. U-F-0) (Unidentified flying object of any kind)
6 EAST (N = north; S = south; W = west)
8 RN (Common abbreviation for the Navy in Great Britain)
9 RIP (usually put on gravestones or in newspaper announcements of deaths)
10 BIO (as in 'bio-degradable plastic')
11 CD (compact disc)
12 AND
13 ESP (this can also mean 'English for Special Purposes' or 'extra-sensory perception', a power
some people say they have to see ghosts and spirits of the dead, or to see the future)
15 GB (each country has an abbreviation for car-plates when travelling in another country.
What is your country's abbreviation?)
17 US (United States)
19 ET (Extra-terrestrial - a loveable creature from another planet in the film called 'ET')
20 TUBE
Down
1 PERCENT
2 See 13 across
4 FRIDGES
5 ON0 (used in advertisements: eg 'Bicycle for sale: £25 0.n.o.' This means perhaps £23 or
L24 would be accepted if nobody else offers £25.)
7 AIDS
10 BN (Please note = NB)
14 PUB (pub is a short form of 'public house')
16 BT (seen on phone boxes in Britain. The abbreviated name of the British
Telecommunications company)
18 SE (NW = north-west, SW = south-west, NE = north-east)

Unit 99

1 an irresistible urge to collect things
2 a house constructed solely from natural materials
3 a female of limited intelligence but high sex appeal
4 a specially bred miniaturised form of vegetable
5 an indoor version of American football
6 a hypothetical miniaturised device capable of making its way through bodily passages and
performing various tasks
These words can be classified as follows, relating to the sections on the left-hand page:
1 collectomania (F) 3 bimbo (D) 5 arenaball (C)
2 bio-house (D) 4 mini-vegetable (B) 6 microbot (B)

1 ozone-Ieco-friendly 5 teleworking
2 Gorbymania 6 cardboard city
3 singlehood 7 couch potato
4 monoboarding (or snow-surfing) 8 sound-bites

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