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Exercises

26.1 Which of the example words do these pictures illustrate?

26.2 Match the adjectives with the nouns in the box. Some adjectives go with more than one
noun.
electric cooker / guitar
1 electric 3 beautiful 5 sunny 7 useful 9 useless
2 fast 4 sandy 6 hard 8 endless

worker cooker beach weather car idea
book swimmer guitar smile picture fun

26.3 Match these books with their subjects — sociology, psychology, economics or politics.
1 The Role of the President in the US Congress
2 British Society in the 1950s
3 Banking Today
4 Why People Smile

26.4 Are there suffixes in your language? Write a translation or an explanation for the suffixes
in the table.

26.5 What do you think these words and phrases mean? Use the information about prefixes and
suffixes in the table to help you.
1 zoology the stvdy of animals 6 painless

7 badly
2 a traveller
8 a tin opener
3 slowly
9 mathematics
4 hopeful
5 rainy
10 a footballer
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