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

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Vocabulary 5 for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs and discuss the difference between.

Answer

  1. there is a small / high chance that things will go wrong
  2. a plan that extends a long time into the future / just for a short period into the future
  3. a call to somewhere near your home / in another part of the country or abroad
  4. a quicker, more direct way of going somewhere / a route which takes longer than necessary
  5. someone who is willing to accept behaviour or opinions that are very different from their own / someone who is not
  6. too thin (used in a negative way) / thin in an attractive way (used positively)
  7. someone who is not capable of serious thought / someone who is capable