Answer Key

English Vocabulary Organiser

Exercise 4: 1d 2c 3a 4g 5h 6c
You win silver for coming 2nd, and bronze for 3rd.
Exercise 5: 1. leading 2. beating 3. winning, losing
Exercise 6: 1. won 2. beat 3. lost to 4. drew
5. scored 6. conceded
Exercise 7: 1f 2a 3c 4h 5e 6d

Unit 51 Television
Exercise 1: 1. screen 2. widescreen 3. portable TV
4. Video, DVD recorder 5. remote control
6. cable, aerial, dish 7. subscription 8. Payper view 9. channel
Exercise 2: 1. 5.15 The Hidden Planet 2. 7.30
Coronation Street 3. 4.30 Disneytime 4. 11.45 The
Jack Dee show 5. 11.00 Panorama 6. 9.50
Parkinson 7. 6.15 Pride and Prejudice 8. 8.00 Who
Wants to be a Millionaire?
Exersice 3: 1. programme 2. repeats 3. interview
4. guests 5. highlights 6. series 7. serial, episode
Exercise 4: 1. channel 2. viewers 3. live 4. adverts
5. presenter 6. contestants

Unit 52 Newspapers
Exercise 1: 1b 2c 3a 4d 5e
Exercise 2: 1. Sports news 2. Foreign news 3. Home
news 4. Readers letters 5. Editorial 6. Classified
7. Entertainment guide 6. Business and money news
9. Obituaries 10. Weather forecast 11. Personal
12. Reviews
Exercise 3: 1b 2a 3e 4d 5c
Exercise 4: 1. article 2. front page, headlines
3. circulations 4. privacy 5. supplement
Exercise 5: 1b 2c 3a 4f 5d 6e
DIRECTOR QUITS PLANE TRAGEDY
FESTIVAL ROW PRIME MINISTER BACKS
PLAN STRIKE HITS TRAVELLERS BOMB
SCARE
Exercise 6: 1. described 2. appealed 3. demanded
4. announced 5. claimed

Unit 53 Advertising
Exercise 1: 1. a poster 2. a leaflet 3. classified ads
4. a commercial
Exercise 2: 1. influence 2. slogan 3. sponsor, logo
4. brand 5. competitors 6. agency 7. publicity
8. hype
Exercise 3: 1e 2f 3g 4a 5b 6h 7d 8c
Exercise 4: 1 2b 3d 4a 5h 6e 7f 8g
Exercise 5: a. offer b. deal c gifts d. loyalty e. tour
1. special offer 2. promotional tour 3. sponsorship
deal 4. free gifts 5. brand loyalty
f. prices g. magazines h. names i. points j. shot
6. brand names 7. glossy magazines
8. competitive prices 9. selling points 10. mail shot

216

Unit 54 Telephones
Exercise 2: 1. that, Its 2. there, take a message, call
back 3. This, ring 4. wrong, no-one 5. wrong
Exercise 3: 1. call 2. make 3. give 4. leave 5. dial
6. look it up 7. got 8. answer
Exercise 4: 1 get through 2. got the wrong number
3. was engaged 4. got cut off 5. called straight back
6. hung up.
Exercise 5: The correct order is: e i d a f h b g c
Exercise 6: 1. Speaking 2. Hold the line, put you
through 3. available 4. Extension, left a message,
bear with me 5. line, hold

Unit 55 Computers
Exercise 1: 1. palmtop 2. scanner 3. keyboard
4. mousepad 5. VDU or monitor 6. computer
7. mouse 8. laptop 9. printer
Exercise 3: 1. software 2. pre-installed 3. CD-ROMs
4. hard disk 5. installation 6. helpline
Exercise 4: 1. memory 2. terminals 3. modem
4. template 5. toolbar 6. word processor
7. document 8. database 9. spreadsheets
Exercise 5: 1d 2a 3g 4e 5b 6c 7f
Exercise 6: 1. hackers 2. viruses 3. bug 4. crashed
5. lost
Exercise 7: 1. sites 2. on-line 3. download 4. chat
room 5. newsgroup 6. web page

Unit 56 Machines and equipment

Exercise 1: 1. video / DVD player 2. CD player
3. speaker 4. cassette deck 3. turntable (or record
player) 6. headphones 7. electric razor / shaver
8. electric touthbrush 9. hairdryer 10. fan 11. iron
12. video camera 13. vacuum cleaner 14. sewing
machine 15. knob 16. battery 17. extension lead
18. switch 19. socket 20. plug
Exercise 2: 1. works, press 2. runs 3. unplugged 4.
went
Exercise 3: 1. out/off 2. up 3. on 4. down 5. in
Exercise 4: 1. motor 2. device 3. machinery
4. gadgets 5. appliances 6. machine
Exercise 5: 1e 2b 3f 4c 5a 6d
Exercise 6: 1. wrong 2. breaking 3. funny 4. order
5. new 6. properly

Unit 57 Money
Exercise 1: 1 notes 2. coins 3. cash 4.credit card
5. cheque 6. currency 7. money belt
Exercise 2: 1. cash 2. cheque 3. credit card 4.change
Exercise 3: 1i 2d 3e 4c 5h 6a 7f 8g 9j 10b
Exercise 4: 1. Im getting a rise 2. earns pretty good
money 3. get 400 a week 4. make a lot more