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Unit 97
97.4 Possible answers
1 a type of perfume or after shave 6 programme
2 the key 7 clothes or belongings
3 whisky 8 a type of toy
4 knife and fork 9 a suitcase
5 flour 10 shampoo or conditioner
97.2% Possible additions
A: How many people were at the conference?
B: Roughly 400.
A: Did you enjoy it?
B: Yes, sort of.
A: You don’t seem very sure.
B: Well, there were some good things, but it was a bit too long.
A: And did you go to John’s talk?
B: Naturally.
A: How did it go?
B: Well he was sort of nervous at the beginning, but he soon got more confident and I think it
went really well.
A: Did he have a big audience?
B: About 75.
A: That’s good, isn’t it?
B: I think John was a bit disappointed — he wanted at least a hundred.

97.3 Possible answers
1 more or less 3 sort of 5 sort of
2 abit 4 more or less/roughly 6 a bit / sort of

Unit 98
98. 1 American (because of vacation): fall
2 American (because of high school): semester
3 British (because of biscuits): sweets
4 American (because of garbage): trashcan
5 British (because of trousers): waistcoat
6 American (because of truck): highway
7 Probably American (because of apartment): elevator
8 British (because of fortnight): holiday
9 American (because of subway with this meaning): parking lot
10 British (because of trainers): wardrobe

$8.2 British American
holiday vacation
trousers pants
flat apartment
trainers sneakers
secondary school high school
biscuits cookies
rubbish garbage
main road highway
fortnight two weeks / fourteen days
underground (tube) subway

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