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The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1B - Modern families for the textbook English File Intermediate - Workbook with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Jerry Lambert from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. Complete the sentences with a family word.
  2. Match the comments to the personality adjectives from the list.
  3. Read the sentences and complete the crossword with the missing adjectives.
  4. Write the opposite adjectives. Use a negative prefix.
  5. Complete the sentences with sensible, sensitive or sympathetic.

Answer

a)

  1. parents
  2. great-grandfather
  3. only child
  4. niece
  5. adopted child
  6. immediate
  7. stepmother
  8. brother-in-law
  9. half-sister
  10. siblings
  11. extended
  12. nephew
  13. stepsister

b)

  1. spoilt
  2. anxious
  3. selfish
  4. sensible
  5. self-confident
  6. ambitious
  7. stubborn
  8. independent
  9. rebellious
  10. patient
  11. honest
  12. insecure

c)

Down ↓

  1. charming
  2. sociable
  3. mature
  4. imaginative
  5. -
  6. -
  7. bossy

Across →

  1. -
  2. -
  3. moody
  4. -
  5. competitive
  6. reliable
  7. affectionate
  8. -
  9. sensitive

d)

  1. untidy
  2. dishonest
  3. immature
  4. unreliable
  5. insensitive
  6. unambitious
  7. unimaginative
  8. disorganized
  9. irresponsible
  10. unsociable
  11. unfriendly
  12. unkind
  13. impatient
  14. unselfish

e)

  1. sensitive
  2. sensible
  3. sympathetic