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Answer key: Unit 2

the trauma of learning spelling at primary school – you Vocabulary
know, doing those dictations where we had to put a Collocations with make, get and do
double ‘p’ in approve and spelling right with ‘ght’. It’s
frankly absurd and I’d support the idea of simplified 1 1 made 2 to make / making 3 doing 4 make
spelling just to save kids that. 5 Getting
Susan: But it’s part of the character and beauty of
the language. Not everything has to be reduced to 2 make: a decision, a mistake, an effort, a point, a
something functional. proposal, a suggestion, an apology, complaints,
changes, friends, the right choice, use of something,
Rajiv: Maybe not, but as a language teacher it’d make my
an improvement
life a lot easier because my students would immediately
know how to say new words correctly, so I wouldn’t get: a qualification, exercise, further information,
have to spend so much time teaching pronunciation. one’s money back
Susan: You hope! But think of the downside of reprinting do: a course, activities, business, exercise, harm,
every book and replacing every road sign. What a cost! one’s best, some shopping, sport, household chores,
I think you’re being unrealistic, quite honestly. Mind the cooking
you, I’ve heard a lot about how long it takes some
English kids to learn to read and apparently our spelling 3 1 make do 2 receive get 3 turn make 4 make do
system’s a major factor there … 5 achieve do 6 given made 7 make do
8 practising doing
Rajiv: If you can call it a system.
Susan: So you might have something there.
Extract Three Reading and Use of English | Part 3
Woman: You know, the problem for overseas candidates
at job interviews is that the candidates often lack the 1 Suggested answers
sort of cultural background that would stand them in care: carer, caring, uncaring, careful, carefully,
good stead in these situations, so while their English is careless, carelessly, carefree
up to scratch, their responses take the interviewer by critic: criticise, criticism, critical, critically, uncritical,
surprise. They get a question like ‘What do you most uncritically
enjoy about your present job?’, where the interviewer child: children, childhood, childlike, childish,
is expecting something about the challenge or childishly, childishness, childless
working with friendly colleagues or such like, and the break: broken, unbroken, breakable, unbreakable,
interviewee is completely thrown. Perhaps in their unbreakably, outbreak, breakdown
culture they don’t equate work with pleasure at all so
they talk about the status the job gives them, or the occasion: occasional, occasionally
money. This is often combined with sort of closed facial force: forceful, forcefully, forcible, forcibly, enforce,
expressions, so the interviewer finds the response reinforce, reinforcement
difficult to interpret. deep: deepen, depth, deeply, deepening
Man: You’re right and I think the evidence shows that fragile: fragility
for many jobs a better approach might be to set up a friend: friendly, friendliness, unfriendly,
job simulation to see whether the candidate has the unfriendliness, friendship, befriend, friendless
requisite skills and attitude. repair: repairable, irreparable, irreparably
Woman: Exactly, and although interviews will always be
necessary, interviewers need to be trained not to read 2 1 -ise, -en 2 -ion, -ment, -hood, -ity, -ship 3 -less,
too much into people’s answers, but to give people -able, -ly, -ful 4 -ally, -ly
practical opportunities to demonstrate their usefulness.
Man: Though getting the questions right and learning to
interpret the responses more accurately would also be
useful training for many interviewers, I think.

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