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Exercises

Which of the words listed opposite are also used in your language?
Is your own language represented on the opposite page? If so, can you add any words to the
lists opposite? If not, do you know of any words English has borrowed from your language?
(There are almost sure to be some.) Do the words mean exactly the same in English as in
your language? Are they pronounced in the same way?

Look at all the words opposite and complete the following networks.

Make two or three other networks to help you to learn the words on the opposite page.

Match the adjectives on the left with the noun they are most likely to be associated with, on
the right.
1 right-wing kindergarten
2 prima casino
3 strawberry duvet
4 ice vendetta
5 Chinese ballerina
6 long-sleeved embargo
7 total cuisine
8 long-standing floe
9 noisy yoghurt
10 cosy coup
11 all-night caftan

What verbs collocate, in other words, are frequently used with the following nouns?
Example: study algebra
1 karate 4 embargo 7 coup 10 cruise
2 kayak 5 guerrilla 8 confetti 11 sauna
3 mufti 6 cul de sac 9 siesta 12 seminar

Give three nouns likely to follow macho and avant-garde.

Have some words or expressions been borrowed from English into your own language? Give
some examples. Have they kept exactly the same meaningas they have in ~n~lish!

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