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Unit 60

60.1 2 in 3 on 4 have 5 for 6 same

60.2 2 by 3 until 4 since 5 for 6 during 7 for 8 in 9 since

60.3 2 a long time ago / ages ago 4 recently/lately 6 for the time being

3 the other day 5 for ages
60.4 2 fortnight 4 1963; 50 6 10

3 19; 20 5 7 7 1960s
60.5 Possible answers (from a Spanish man):

1 I’ve been in my present job for a year.
2 It takes me half an hour to get to work.
3 A typical working day for me lasts about seven hours. I work from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm, then I have a
long lunch break (siesta) and work again from 5 pm to 8 pm.
4 I’ve been studying English since 2009, but I stopped for three years during 2011–2014.
5 I haven’t spoken English since 11 o’clock this morning.
6 I saw my cousin Rafa the other day.
7 Nowadays I don’t go to the gym as much as I used to.
8 One day I hope to be a very successful architect.

Unit 61
61.1 2 two and a half

3 two thousand, three hundred and forty-five
4 nought point two five
5 one million, two hundred and fifty thousand
6 ten point nought/oh four
7 forty-seven per cent
8 the tenth of September (OR September the tenth)
9 nine four oh/zero, double three eight

10 minus five degrees Celsius (OR five degrees below zero)
11 in nineteen ninety-six
12 twenty twelve (OR two thousand and twelve)
61.2 2 twenty thousand 5 the thirty-first of August / August the thirty-first

3 the seventh of June / June the seventh 6 seven two three, six oh/zero nine
4 two hundred and twenty
61.3 2 majority 3 minority 4 calculator 5 up; work 6 stuck

61.4 2 seventy-two 3 sixty 4 five 5 three 6 fifteen

61.5 Possible answers:

1 Nineteen eighty eight 4 June the sixth
2 One metre eighty 5 About eighty thousand
3 My building is number twenty-one, 6 I think it’s about thirty-seven degrees.

and I live in flat three.

Unit 62

62.1 2 it’s (quite) shallow. 5 it’s huge/enormous.
3 it’s (quite) narrow. 6 it’s tiny.
4 he’s (quite) tall.

62.2 2 What’s the depth of the lake? 6 What’s her height?
3 How high is the mountain? 7 How long/wide is the pitch?

4 What’s the height of the mountain? 8 What’s the length/width of the pitch?
5 How tall is she?

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