Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.1 - Good fit for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Check what you know. Complete the compound adjectives.
  2. Work in pairs. Which words in the box can be added to the adjectives in the table to make compounds? Use a dictionary to check your ideas. Note useful examples for items that are new to you.
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  4. Listen to some of the compounds. Which word is usually stressed? The first or the second? Listen again and repeat.

Answer

a)

  1. short
  2. Long
  3. High
  4. low
  5. self

b)

  • high-powered, high-grade, high-risk, high-end, high-key, high-maintenance, high-profile, high-tech
  • low-profile, low-maintenance, low-tech, low-key, low-end, low-grade, low-powered, low-risk
  • long-awaited, long-suffering, long-haul, long-range, long-winded, long-lost
  • short-staffed, short-haul, short-tempered, short-range

d)

The secondary word is usually stressed.