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The key answer of exercise 3

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

  1. Work in pairs and complete the phrases using words from the box.
  2. Listen to the words / phrases and write them in the right place according to their stress patterns. Listen again and repeat.
  3. Respond to situations 1-5 using the prompts and phrases from Exercise 3A.

Answer

a)

  1. preconceptions
  2. stereotypes
  3. second
  4. mind
  5. narrow-minded
  6. eye-opening
  7. perspective
  8. convincing

b)

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  • perspective
  • convincing

ooOo

  • preconceptions
  • narrow-minded

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  • have second thoughts
  • stereotypes
  • eye-opening

c)

  1. I'm having second thoughts about getting married.
  2. It was an eye-opening experience. It has given me a whole new perspective.
  3. I had some preconceptions about what he was going to be like.
  4. I don't find the arguments for nuclear power very convincing.
  5. Losing my job gave me a whole new perspective on what life is like without work.