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Vocabulary and grammar 8 C (mini-lectures I wouldn't have to spend too much
time)
review 9 mobile phone(s)

10 digital recorder(s)
Unit 1
0 2 affect 3 trouble 4 effect(s) 5 problems Reading
6 effect
0 1 A Daddy's gone out. I Daddy's going out. 1 My father's
@ 2 percentage 3 percent 4 percentage; percent
gone out. I My father went out
2 False (Australia, not the United States) 3 True
B I'm going for a walk.
4 False (second highest, not third)
C I've eaten my biscuit I all the biscuits. 1
€) 2 more quickly 3 best 4 most complicated
The biscuit's all gone.
5 funnier 6 bigger 7 most successful 8 safer
@ Suggested answer
Unit 2 Something about how babies learn to talk and the stages
!they go through
0 2 harmful 3 enjoyment 4 totally 5 tasty
€) When their brains are ready
6 organically 7 unhealthy 8 criticise/criticize
0 1 YES
@ 2 activity/action 3 danger 4 fitness
5 happiness 6 independence 7 toxin/toxicity 0 Suggested underlining
8 nutrition 9 reliance/reliability 10 accuracy 2 Behaviourists 1 learn to speak I copying (links to
sentence beginning: Behaviorism ... )
€) 2 information 3 A Balanced diet 4 pollution
5 knowledge 6 fast-food shops 7 a very stressful 3 Children I more conversations I adults I other children
lifestyle 8 research (links to sentence beginning: However, this 'copycat'
theory ... )
0 2 a 3 little 4 much 5 amount of 6 plenty of
7 few 8 deal of 4 Scientists I work out I one-word sentences (links to
sentence beginning: What is hard for them to do ... )
Unit 3 Answers
2 YES 3 NOT GIVEN 4 NO
Starting off @ Two theories matches two reasonable possibilities in the
O lD 2C 3A 4B fourth paragraph.
@ 1 All the situations are study-related. The words in the fourth and fifth sentences of paragraph 4
suggest that some time has to pass before children can do
Listening these things.
f) 6B ?A S F 9E
0 2b 3 a 4g 5c 6i 7e S h 9f
(!) 1 Suggested underlining
@ Suggested underlining
1-2: TWO activities 1 students do I Amanda's assignment 10 writer's purpose
11 Snedeker, Geren, Shafto I study I children
3-4: TWO features I Amanda check I chooses 1 extract
€) 1-2 A ( ... record themselves ... then listen back and see where 12 aspect 1 adopted I language development 1
their weaknesses lie ... ) and D ( ... look up one of my lectures ... differed 1 US-born
and find a suitable extract ... ) 13 What 1 Harvard finding show
3-4 B (a clear, well-structured passage) and E (some obvious 14 'critical period'
main points) 2 10 A (All of these factors make them an ideal population
0 1 Lecture titles in which to test these competing hypotheses about
2 A content 1 repetitive; B long time 1 write; C shorter; how language is learned.)
D well structured; E content 1 relevant; F topic 1 popular 11 C (These children began learning English at an older age
There are two extra options. than U.S. natives and had more mature brains with
which to tackle the task.)
3 Just the letters: A, B, C, etc.
12 C (The adoptees then went through the same stages as
0 Suggested underlining
typical American-born children, albeit at a faster clip.)
TWO pieces of equipment
13 B (Learning how to chat like an adult is a gradual
@ 5 D (clearly sequenced and presented) process.)
6 F (we'nt down well I I really liked that one) 14 D (Researchers have long suspected there is a 'critical
7 E (topic's certainly more closely linked) period' for language development, after which it cannot
proceed with full success to fluency.)

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