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25.6 Possible answers for a British person:

1 We eat a lot of roast beef, baked potatoes and barbecued chicken in the UK. We sometimes eat fried
rice but we don’t usually eat raw fish unless we go to a Japanese restaurant.
2 I like bitter chocolate, I like spicy food, and I like the taste of garlic. I don’t like chocolate-flavoured ice

cream very much – I prefer vanilla.
3 The weather isn’t good enough in the UK to cook outside on a barbecue very often.
4 I’m not a great cook but I’m quite good at making desserts.

Unit 26

26.1 2 f 3 g 4 a 5 c 6 b 7 h 8 e

26.2 2 It was quiet. 5 There are disadvantages.
3 It’s very dirty. 6 There’s nowhere to park.

4 It was very dull/boring.
26.3 2 cultural 3 variety 4 night 5 stuck 6 value

26.4 2 exhausted 5 pollution 8 going on

3 stressed 6 hurry 9 get poverty
4 lively 7 park
26.5 Possible answers for a town in the south of England:

1 It’s quite bad from 8.00 to 9.00 in the morning, and then again from 4.30 to 6.00 pm.
2 It’s very good for a medium-sized town: lots of restaurants and bars, a few nightclubs, two or three
cinemas, two or three theatres, several concert halls, etc.

3 Yes it is. As well as cinema, theatre and concerts, we have a number of festivals: a literature festival,
a jazz festival, a food festival, and lots of cultural talks and lectures you can go to.
4 There is pollution in the town centre because it’s between two hills.
5 The crime rate isn’t bad because it is quite a rich town, and I feel safe at night.
6 Living in my town has lots of advantages. There are lots of things to do, like go to the cinema, theatre,
etc. There are plenty of shops too, and a train station. But some of the disadvantages are that there
are too many cars and traffic jams and this means there is pollution too.

Unit 27
27.1 2 grass 3 leaves 4 woods 5 plants 6 roots 7 branches 8 crops

27.2 2 countryside (also country) 4 own 6 ground/grass

3 up 5 season 7 keep
27.3 2 gate 3 tractor 4 footpath 5 field 6 valley 7 woods 8 farmhouse

27.4 2 spaces 5 surrounded 8 public 11 away
3 air 6 worst 9 hopeless
4 pick 7 get 10 much

27.5 Possible answers:

I agree with most of the ideas in the text. I also think that life in the country is probably less
stressful than in a big city, and probably healthier too. One of the disadvantages of living in the
country is that you become totally dependent on having a car.

Unit 28
28.1 2 ride 5 run 8 fares

3 get in 6 fly 9 driver
4 journey 7 missed 10 off; stop
28.2 2 van 4 lorry (also truck) 6 bicycle/bike

3 motorbike 5 coach

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