Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.3 - It's a dog's life for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at the sentences below. What is the difference in meaning between the underlined words?
  2. Work in pairs and work out the meaning of the underlined words.

Answer

a)

  • a necessity = something you need
  • a luxury = something pleasant that you like but do not need

b)

  1. completely extravagant
  2. high-quality food
  3. very expensive, luxurious
  4. allowed to behave exactly as he or she wants and given everything he or she asks for
  5. allow yourself (or someone else) to do something for pleasure
  6. treat yourself well
  7. to be very generous and kind towards someone
  8. paid for something nice / special for somebody else