Answer — Exercise 8
7.3 - It's a dog's life·New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book
Question
- Look at the sentences below. What is the difference in meaning between the underlined words?
- 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)
- completely extravagant
- high-quality food
- very expensive, luxurious
- allowed to behave exactly as he or she wants and given everything he or she asks for
- allow yourself (or someone else) to do something for pleasure
- treat yourself well
- to be very generous and kind towards someone
- paid for something nice / special for somebody else