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Answer — Exercise 2

1.2 - What are you like?·Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

Question

  1. Look at the questionnaire again and underline verbs / expressions used to describe present or past habits. Add examples to complete the table.
  2. Listen and write sentences 1-3. Check your answers in the audio script on page 165.
  3. Listen to the sentences being said in two different ways. What effect does the change in pronunciation have on the meaning?
  4. Listen and repeat the sentences. In which sentence does the person NOT sound annoyed?

Answer

a)

  1. I'll look for clues that will help me.
  2. I'm always watching videos, I'm always looking for opportunities
  3. She keeps on calling me.
  4. I'm inclined to be very analytical/l'm happy to take risks with language
  5. I have a tendency to focus on the grammar
  6. As a rule, I'm happy to take risks
  7. nine times out of ten I'll just know if something is wrong
  8. I didn't use to have the confidence to speak
  9. I would spend hours studying grammar rules
  10. I was always looking for new ways to
  11. I kept making mistakes
  12. I was forever making mistakes.
  13. I tended to get frustrated

b)

  1. He'll spend hours on the computer.
  2. They would complain all the time.
  3. She'll disagree with everything you say.

c)

The stress is on a different word in the two versions. In sentences 2, 4 and 6 the stress is on will / would and the effect is to make the speaker sound irritated or annoyed about the habit.

d)

Sentence 1

Exercise 3 →

More exercises in 1.2 - What are you like?

Ex. 3
Ex. 4
Ex. 5
Ex. 6
Ex. 8