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The key answer of exercise 9

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.2 - Land of invention for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Work in pairs and look at the photos (A-G). Which of the materials from the box below can you use to describe what each of the inventions is made of?
  2. Which of the words from the box below are fabric? Which are metal?

Answer

a)

  1. metal, plastic, rubber
  2. metal, leather, rubber, plastic, glass
  3. paper
  4. metal, plastic, rubber
  5. gunpowder, plastic
  6. metal, rubber, wood
  7. glass, metal

b)

  • fabric → cotton, denim, lycra, silk, wool
  • metal → bronze, gold, iron, silver