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Unit One People Around Us
Enhance Your Language Awareness Words in Action
▆ Working with Words and Expressions 1. In the box below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the following sentences with them. Change the form where necessary. ▆ Answers: 1) crease 2) hint 3) assured 4) awaiting 5) hovering 6) scrawled 7) glistening 8) frail 9) sole 10) visible 11) engaged 12) biased 13) dreading
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14) grinning 2. In the boxes below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do you know how to use them in the proper context? Now check for yourself by doing the blank-filling exercise. Change the form where necessary. ▆ Answers: 1) for fear of 2) pulled up 3) except for 4) get by
5) make a living 6) every so often 7) in the background 8) Shut off
9) each and every 10) as it is
11) wraps … around her little finger 12) caught us …unawares
▆ Increasing Your Word Power 1. Choose the definition from Column B that best matches each phrasal verb in Column A, paying attention to the V+ Prep./Ad. collocation. ▆ Answers: 1) f 2) c 3) d 4) e 5) b 6) g
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7) h 8) a
Fill in each blank in the following sentences with a proper phrasal verb. Change the verb form where necessary. ▆ Answers: 1) let out
2) clean … up 3) come through 4) waiting on 5) picked up 6) ended up 7) headed for 8) ran through
2. The prefixes ex-, fore-, pre- mean “former, before, or in advance” while the prefix post- means “after or later than”. Study the following examples and form words by adding ex-, fore-, pre-, post- to the words given in the table and then complete each of the following sentences with a proper word you have just formed. Change the verb form where necessary. ▆ Answers: 1) foretell 2) preview 3) forerunner 4) postscript 5) postgraduate 6) precondition