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
Choose the most appropriate words in italics.
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)
dyed
good-looking
round
bald
clean-shaven
scruffy
chubby
skinny
b)
scruffy → negative
chubby → positive when speaking of a baby, a little bit negative when referring to an adult
