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The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2 - About town for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Check any new words in bold in a dictionary. Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.

Answer

  1. large, expensive, often detached houses; good quality roads and street lights, trees and large gardens, high walls and security, big fences; guard dogs; expensive cars; high-end designer boutiques; posh restaurants and cafés
  2. large, expensive, often old buildings such as palaces and mansions; public buildings such as town halls, 5-star hotels, libraries, cathedrals, etc. which are big and impressive and old and dominate their surroundings
  3. perhaps knock it down, repaint, renovate or redecorate it, cover it up
  4. many city centres or financial districts, e.g. New York or Chicago
  5. They might protect it because it is of interest to locals and tourists and may be under threat from developers; they might also renovate it and maybe charge people to enter it, in order to generate funds for its future care.
  6. an affluent area
  7. houses where people live; lots of families and not too much nightlife; maybe some good schools, nurseries, a few local shops and restaurants
  8. No, because it is unattractive and may have a lot of crime and social problems; they might get mugged or robbed in the street; they might have something stolen or get into some other kind of trouble.
  9. They might knock it down or improve it by renovating and investing money in it.
  10. an ordinary, dull, boring building
  11. It is a fashionable area so it may have very new, modern bars, cafés and clothes boutiques, as well as lots of art galleries, second-hand or vintage shops, music venues, foreign restaurants, pop-up spaces, street art and street markets. The people there are often young and fashionable (artists, musicians, students, designers, people from the fashion, film or music industry).
  12. It is improving and becoming more fashionable and, probably, more expensive to live in and buy houses in; crime starts to drop, and new shops and bars and clubs, etc. open up.

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