B) Answer the questions given before the text in written form.

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GRAMMAR / USE OF ENGLISH

4. If you fill in the plural as in the example and read the letter of complain below, you’ll learn what was wrong with Mrs Woodward’s stay in a hotel.

Dear Manager,

I’m writing to complain about the terrible week my family spent at your hotel. We had reserved two 1) rooms (room): one for me and my three 2) …… (grandchild) and another – for my two 3) …… (son-in-law). There were six of us, but when we arrived there weren’t enough 4) …… (bed) in the rooms. Even though we’d checked beforehand, at your restaurant we were told there were no 5) …… (meal) especially for children. We had to keep asking the waiter to bring us some 6) …… (glass) and we found our 7) …… (fork and spoon) dirty. We were informed that not all the 8) …… (dish) were available that evening and, when we did receive our food, the 9) …… (potato) were raw and the meat was so tough I nearly broke my front 10) …… (tooth) when I bit into it. However it was nothing. The real horror was when I saw two 11) …… (mouse) running across the floor.

I think I’m entitled to some compensation as long as it doesn’t include free meals at your restaurant! I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

M. Woodward

Read the text given below and put in compounds in possessive case as in the example.

Mind your skin

We have become very conscious of conversation these days. A lot of people won’t buy any goods made from 1) animal skins (skins of animals). In many parts of the world, it is now unthinkable for a person to dress in 2) …… (a coat made of the skin of a leopard). We realise that 3) …… (the wildlife of the earth) needs protection. This affects such things as 4) ……(clothing worn by children) and 5) …… (coats worn by ladies). If 6) …… (a fur coat worn by an actress) attracts admiration these days, it is probably created from man-made materials. Of course, we still farm animals for their skin, but the notice I saw in a shop recently must have been 7) …… (the revenge of the crocodiles). It was selling crocodile skin bags and offering service: 8) ……(skins of customers) made up.

A) Make up the negative of the following adjectives using the prefixes and fill in the table below.

Reliable, legal, comfortable, convenient, logical, social, forgettable, valuable, responsible, polite, credible, agreeable, affordable, literate, leading, honest, direct, regular, popular, reasonable, smoking, acceptable, resistible, revocable, terrorist, personal, predictable, moral, employed, passionate, dependent, relevant, probable, limited.

b) Add the correct prefixes to words 1-8. Make use of the following hint:

1. Alice Watson is the (1) …author of this book.

2. Out boss is going to a(n) (2) … national conference.

3. At the meeting, no one interrupted the Prime Minister’s (3) …louge about environment.

4. When I was six years old, my parents bought my first (4) …cycle.

5. Oliver is a(n) (5) … teacher. He went on pension six years ago.

6. Boys and girls who (6) …behave will be sent to the headmaster.

7. Our new classmate is very (7) …social. He doesn’t like meeting new people.

8. Our room walls are white, but the curtains are (8) …coloured.

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