The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.2 - Changing your mind for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education
Question
Work in pairs and complete the phrases using words from the box.
Listen to the words / phrases and write them in the right place according to their stress patterns. Listen again and repeat.
Respond to situations 1-5 using the prompts and phrases from Exercise 3A.
Answer
a)
preconceptions
stereotypes
second
mind
narrow-minded
eye-opening
perspective
convincing
b)
oOo
perspective
convincing
ooOo
preconceptions
narrow-minded
Oooo
have second thoughts
stereotypes
eye-opening
c)
I'm having second thoughts about getting married.
It was an eye-opening experience. It has given me a whole new perspective.
I had some preconceptions about what he was going to be like.
I don't find the arguments for nuclear power very convincing.
Losing my job gave me a whole new perspective on what life is like without work.