2 Students’ own answers Exercise 8
3 Students’ own answers 1 Loan words from other languages; giving new meaning to
old words; making new compounds from existing words;
4 1 D 2 H 3 E 4 B 5 G 6 A adding prefixes or suffixes to words; blending two words
5 1 The main purpose of the article is to discuss the together; using abbreviations and acronyms; converting
likelihood of cloning a woolly mammoth and the nouns into verbs.
ethical problems this possibility raises. 2 Students’ own answers
2 The author believes that it is unlikely that a woolly
mammoth will be cloned in the near future.
5B Grammar and listening
6 1 b 2d 3a 4b 5d 6b 7a 8c 9a 10c
7 Students’ own answers Fast track to fluency pages 58–59
Exercise 1 $ 1•24
Unit 5 Words Audio script
TV presenter Imagine knowing so many languages that
5A Reading and vocabulary you can communicate with almost anyone in the
world. Impossible, you think? Then you’d better think
again. Sixteen-year-old New Yorker Tim Doner has
A word is born pages 56–58
already mastered an incredible twenty-three
Exercise 1 languages and is planning to learn many more. Here’s
manga: a Japanese form of comic strip (Origin: Japan) our education correspondent, Susie Green, to explain
embiggen: to make bigger (Origin: comedy, combining how he does it. Susie?
the prefix ‘em’, the adjective ‘big’, and the suffix ‘en’) Susie Well, Tim Doner is proof that you don’t need to
cyberbully: a person who bullies another person using spend your childhood in different countries or have
the internet (Origin: the noun ‘cyber’ as a prefix in order to multilingual parents to be a brilliant language learner.
show that the bullying is ‘to do with the internet’) chillax: He has never lived outside the USA, and he didn’t
chill out and relax (Origin: a mixture of the words ‘chill out’ speak in any language except English until he started
and ‘relax’) French at school when he was eight. So what exactly
americano: a black coffee (Origin: Italy) does it take to learn as many languages as Tim?
floordrobe: floor and wardrobe (Origin: a mixture of Well, you need to be fairly intelligent to match Tim’s
the words ‘floor’ and ‘wardrobe’) achievements – although he assures me that he’s no
soz: sorry (Origin: an abbreviation used in text language) genius in his other subjects at school. More
importantly, you have to put in a lot of hard work –
Exercise 2 several hours a day, in Tim’s case. You needn’t have
A concocted = invented; gaining = increasing formal language lessons, although they can be a
B aeons = a very long period of time; crop up = great help, of course. Tim has learned the basics of
appear or happen lots of languages through grammar books and
C hyperbole = exaggeration flashcard applications on his phone. After that, the
D acronym = a word formed from the first letters of critical thing is practice. // Tim usually practises
the words in a phrase or name between ten and fifteen different languages every
E sophisticated = clever and complicated day. He chats with bilingual friends at school and on
F ubiquitous = seeming to be everywhere the internet, and with random people from all over the
world in the New York streets and subways. You
Exercise 3 don’t have to have perfect grammar to hold a
1 E 2F 3A 4D 5 B conversation, but when it comes to speaking practice,
Exercise 4 you mustn’t be shy.
a add on b switch on c cheer on, go on According to Tim, you ought to follow your interests
d slip on e carry on, keep on f move on when you’re practising languages, as this helps you to
stay motivated. Tim likes world music, so he often
Exercise 5 learns the words of foreign songs. He’s fascinated by
1 turn on; a 2 thrown on; d 3 Come on; c current affairs, so he reads the news in at least eight
4 live on; e 5 urged on; c 6 cling on to; e different languages every morning. He also loves the
soap operas on American TV, but knows that he
Exercise 6 shouldn’t waste his time on them. Instead he watches
1 We use the prefix em- in front of words beginning DVDs of foreign soap operas, so he can practise his
with p (and b and ph). languages and have his soap opera fix at the same
2 It means ‘to cause something to happen’. time.
There’s really nothing that Tim does to learn languages
Exercise 7 that we can’t all do. In fact, I must stop making excuses
1 enlarge, ensure, enable 2 entrusted for my own terrible language skills and start studying!
3 enclosed, entitled 4 empower, encourage
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1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 a ought (not) to, had better (not) b must c need to d
mustn’t e don’t need to, needn’t
Exercise 4
1 shouldn’t, need to 2 must, don’t need to Exercise 2 $ 1•26
3 needn’t, had better 4 ought to, don’t have to Audio script
Exercise 6 Presenter All that sounds great for adults, but what
1 shouldn’t have, ought to have, should have about teenagers? Presumably they’re more likely to
2 needed to, had to download e-books and music from the internet than
3 didn’t have to, didn’t need to come to the library?
4 needn’t have
Exercise 7
1 In my first job, everyone had to speak good Spanish.
2 I needed to work hard to improve my language skills.
3 I didn’t have to take any exams.
4 I ought not to have given up Spanish at school. / I
ought to have continued doing Spanish at school.
5 We didn’t need to learn a modern language after the
age of fourteen.
6 I needn’t have learned Latin to a high level; it’s
never been useful to me.
7 My parents should have encouraged me to
study modern languages.
Exercise 8
Students’ own answers
5C Listening, speaking and
vocabulary
A good read pages 60–61
Exercise 1 $ 1•25
Audio script
Presenter Where can you go in a town centre that’s
warm and dry in all weathers, and allows you to stay
for hours without buying anything? The public library,
of course! For more than a century, public libraries
have been an important feature of our town centres.
But with the new technology of recent years, times are
changing for libraries. Our special guest, Jo Scott, is
Libraries Director at Yorkshire County Council, and
she’s here to explain exactly what’s happening. Jo,
thanks for joining us today. Jo It’s a pleasure.
Presenter So, could you tell us a little about how
libraries have changed in your area?
Jo Well, they’re not just places to borrow books any
more, although that’s still an important part of the
service. We’ve moved on ... evolved. We now lend
music, films and computer games as well as books.
Our visitors have free use of the internet on our
computers. We have craft clubs, where people learn a
new hobby like sewing or knitting, and we offer free
advice on financial help from the government.
The link is public libraries.
Knitting, films, computers and books are mentioned. Other
activities mentioned are free use of the internet, sewing, new
hobbies, financial advice.
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