Practice exercises

1. Circle the words that you associate with family relationships. Underline the words you 

associate with professional relationships.

a  client  

d  colleague

b  parent  

e  spouse

c  sibling  

f  employer

2. Listen to three speakers talking about people who have been important to them. Indicate 

the person each speaker describes by writing a letter a - f from Exercise 1 in each space.

1.  ...................... 

2. ...................... 

3......................  

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3. Listen again to the three speakers and write down the adjectives from the table above

 that you hear. Listen fo r the word endings: -able, -ible, -al, -ant, -ent, -ic, -ive, -ous.

1.......................

2......................

3......................

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4. Listen to the extract from a lecture about only children and notice the expression the

speaker uses to indicate she is defining the key expressions 1-6 below. Look back at the

Exam tip and write a let te r a-e in each space.

1. only children

2. parental resources

3. tolerant  ......

4.co-operative

5. autonomy

6 unconventional

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5. Listen to the extract again and complete the definitions the speaker gives for words 1 -6

 above. Write one word in each space.

1 only children - ‘children with out____________ ’

2 parental resources - ‘not just money, but also ____________ and ____________ ’

3 tolerant - ‘able to accept___________ ’

4 co-operative - ‘able to work ____________ w i th --------------------- ’

5 autonomy - ‘ability to ____________ their own --------------------- ’

6 unconventional - ‘not quite ____________ in social terms’

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