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

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.2 - Idlers and strivers for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at the examples (a-f) in the Active grammar box. Match them to the headings below.
  2. Read rule A in the Active grammar box. Complete 1-4 by matching them to examples a-f.
  3. -
  4. Read rule C in the Active grammar box. Write four common stative verbs for each category (1-3).

Answer

a)

  1. f
  2. b
  3. e
  4. a
  5. d
  6. c

b)

  1. c
  2. e
  3. d
  4. f

d)

  • Verbs of personal feeling → like, love, hate, want, prefer, dislike, wish
  • Verbs of thought → know, believe, imagine, mean, realise, understand, doubt, feel (have an opinion)
  • Verbs of the senses → hear, sound, appear, taste, see, smell, resemble, seem