Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 9

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.2 - A good read for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs. Look at the underlined compound words in the extracts and answer the questions.

Answer

1 - extract 3 contains only a compound noun (hell-raiser)

2

  • self-conscious and hot-headed describe someone's character
  • weather-beaten, far-seeing, hollow-cheeked, fast-moving, washed-out describe something physical

3

  • works hard = hard-working
  • keeps an open mind = open-minded
  • looks good = good-looking
  • thinks freely = free-thinking
  • loves fun = fun-loving