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The key answer of exercise 10

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.1 - Life changes for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Choose the most appropriate words in italics.
  2. Look again at sentences 6-8 from exercise 10a. Do scruffy, chubby and skinny have a positive or negative connotation? When might they have a different connotation?

Answer

a)

  1. dyed
  2. good-looking
  3. round
  4. bald
  5. clean-shaven
  6. scruffy
  7. chubby
  8. skinny

b)

  • scruffy → negative
  • chubby → positive when speaking of a baby, a little bit negative when referring to an adult
  • skinny → negative