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UNIT 3 Answers to Coursebook activities

2 Example answers
exposed – subjected; unprecedented – unparalleled; pondering – considering,
thinking about; epigrams – witticisms, clever sayings; ambiguous – doubtful, uncertain;
essential – basic, fundamental; universal – widespread, ubiquitous; decay – decline;
prophesied – predicted; surging – flowing, streaming

3 a clichéd imagery: conveys familiarity so that the arguments seem less questionable,
more commonly agreed
b idioms: make the style lively, informal and appealing
c examples: illustrate a point to make it more convincing, and also more memorable
as the imagination is engaged in picturing them
d statistics: lend credence to any claim as they not only sound indisputable but also as
if the writer has carried out research
e subject pronouns: the use of ‘we’ and ‘you’ includes and appeals to the reader and
makes agreement more likely

4 a Example answer
The writer believes that written language now dominates forms of communication
because technological media encourage immediate replies, and this has made brief
and informal responses acceptable as well as quick and easy.
b • writing is the most important medium for young people
• text writers do not feel the need to consider clarity of style
• writers are more than ever judged by their accuracy of expression
• amount of written communication constantly on the increase
• amount of overall communication may have increased
c • young people dislike writing and prefer to chat orally
• they need to make their messages unambiguous otherwise their intentions fail
• people don’t expect emails and texts to be in accurate English and don’t notice
if they aren’t
• use of mobile phones for talking is on the increase
• there is more interaction with strangers than ever before, but communication
with acquaintances hasn’t changed in amount, only in medium

5 a and b
i replicated (verb past participle) – represented, reproduced
ii pragmatic (adjective) – sensible, realistic
iii fundamental (adjective) – basic, essential
iv distinctions (noun, plural) – differences
v rationalising (verbal noun) – making logical
vi eluded (verb past participle) – evaded, escaped
vii accelerating (verb present participle) – quickening, increasing the speed of
viii minimal (adjective) – almost none, negligible amount

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UNIT 3 Answers to Coursebook activities

ix ultimately (adverb) – in the end, at last, eventually, finally


x innovation (noun) – new/original product/method
c i Example answers
a snapshot – an isolated observation, a fleeting impression
found their way into – became part of
a level playing field – a fair competition, a state of equality
to flow uphill – to go against nature, to do the impossible
an ongoing process – something currently taking place, an evolving situation
ii Example answer
The use of these idioms and collocations makes the passage seem colloquial,
up-to-date and accessible.
6 a Example answers: Ever-evolving English; English always on the move
b Example answer
• correctness not always agreed upon
• rule books cannot keep up with language change
• words will change as necessary or new ones will be introduced
• English spelling should become logical to fall into line with other European
languages
• ICT is simplifying written messages
• new forms should be accepted into informal English
7 a Example answers
undergoing a global extinction crisis – in the process of being wiped out worldwide
it’s only in people’s heads – it only exists in human memory
an unbroken link to the past – a continuous historical connection
was threatening native tongues – was endangering traditional local languages
such inter-generational exchanges – this kind of communication between different
age groups
b Example answers: claimed; stated; added; explained; declared; recounted; opined
c Example answer
We know this passage is informative and not discursive or argumentative because it is
purely factual; the writer does not give a view on the topic but uses names, numbers
and examples to describe the situation, attributing all opinions to a named source.
9 a Example answer
A primary school child is raising money for charity to help provide children
everywhere with enough food to be able to learn well while at school.
b i ‘a lot’; ‘mum, dad and grandpa’; ‘big’, ‘small’; ‘posh’. Generally monosyllabic
words are used.
ii style and sentence structures – repetitive simple and compound structures;
frequent use of constructions with ‘so’; repetition of words, e.g. ‘I am just
average, but average at home is different from average in Malawi. Average in
Malawi means you are hungry.’
c Example answers: became; you must; entered; remove (from); possess
d Example answers: get into, get over, get out of, get up, get up to, get ahead, get along,
get along with, get by, get around, get across, get away, get back, get back at, get on,
get on with, get round to

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UNIT 3 Answers to Coursebook activities

e It is simple and clear; it shows a touching concern for others: kindness, honesty
and sympathy; her family are involved; the open character of the Malawi adults and
children comes across; it is a sharing and learning experience for all concerned.

11 Example answers
quizzical – puzzled, baffled; standard – usual, normal; deviate – differ, diverge;
emulating – mimicking, reproducing, imitating; vocal – vociferous, articulate;
emit – transmit, send out; feat – achievement; vicinity – locality, area; establishing –
confirming, knowing for sure; indication – sign, demonstration, piece of evidence

12 a onomatopoeia: words which sound like their meaning; the formation of a word
from a related sound
b Example answer
A diver underwater was told by a beluga whale to ‘get out’; belugas are intelligent,
can imitate the human voice, and seem to want to communicate with humans.
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c Example answers: 1 However; 2 Moreover; 3 Furthermore; 4 Nevertheless;
5 Therefore; 6 In addition; 7 Consequently; 8 As a result; 9 Yet; 10 even so

13 a and b Example answer


When a diver doing an underwater repair heard a call to return to the surface, he
thought it was his colleagues calling him; when he got there they said they had not
called him.

It turned out that a beluga whale called NoC had made the noise; he had watched
the diver return to the surface; he had probably copied the shout he had heard the
surface team members calling down to the diver on previous occasions.

There have been previous recorded cases of belugas sounding like humans; they
have a proven ability to copy noises they have heard in the sea; the belugas have
human-like expressions and are very intelligent, playful, social, vocal and loud; it
takes a great effort for the whales to make such sounds.

NoC will now be studied by marine biologists at the National Marine Mammal
Foundation; the aim is to discover whether these human-type noises are attempts to
talk to humans; it is known whales can communicate with each other about objects
they can see; scientists are not yet sure about what else they can say to each other, or
whether they could ever communicate with humans.

14 a It is a sonnet.
b It is 14 lines of iambic pentameter (with an alternate rhyme scheme and ending in
a couplet).
c It has no meaning because the vocabulary is random.
e Even if the grammar is correct, meaning cannot be conveyed if the lexical items
have no semantic connection or context. This is called nonsense verse (in this case
written by a computer).

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