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Answer — Exercise 3

3.2 - Tomorrow's world·Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book

Question

  1. Read sentences 1-6 from the article in Exercise 2A and underline the time markers.
  2. Look at the time markers again. Which of them mean soon? Which mean in a long time? Which name a future date or time period? Group them.
  3. Listen to the underlined expressions in 3A. Which words in these expressions are stressed? Which words are the most important to the meaning of each expression?

Answer

a)

  1. In the future
  2. In only a year or two
  3. in the short term
  4. in the long term
  5. in perhaps ten to twenty years' time
  6. in the next thirty years

b)

  • 1, 2, 3 → soon
  • 4, 5, 6 → in a long time
  • 2, 5, 6 → name a future date or time period

c)

  1. near future
  2. year or two
  3. short term
  4. long term
  5. ten ... twenty ... time
  6. thirty years

The stressed words are the most important to the meaning of each expression.

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More exercises in 3.2 - Tomorrow's world

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Ex. 9
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