Answer — Exercise 2
7.2 - The memory men·Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book
Question
- Read sentences a)-h), then discuss questions 1-3 with a partner.
- Look at the words in bold in exercise 2A. Then listen to the sentences and answer the questions.
Answer
a)
- hopeless, useless
- nouns → expert, ability, aptitude; adjectives → gifted, skilful, talented hopeless, useless
- expert → with special skills or knowledge of a subject; gifted → having a natural ability to do something; ability → the state of being able to do something; skilful → good at doing something that you have learnt and practised; aptitude → a natural ability or skill, especially in learning; talented → have a natural ability to do something well; hopeless / useless → very bad at doing something
b)
- expert, gifted, ability, skilful, aptitude, talented, hopeless, useless
- Expert, gifted, skilful, hopeless and useless have two syllables. The stress in two-syllable words is usually on the first syllable.