Unit Two
Optimism and Positive Thinking
Enhance Your Language Awareness
Words in Action
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Working with Words and Expressions
1.
In the box below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the following sentences
with them. Change the form where necessary.
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Answers:
1)
positive
2)
startled
3)
perspective
4)
harden
5)
shape
6)
address
7)
crises
8)
curse
9)
incredible
10)
conversely
11)
issue
12)
response
13)
prior
14)
rare
15)
accomplish
2.
In the box below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do you understand their
meanings? Do you know how to use them in the proper context? Now check for yourself by doing the
blank
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filling exercise. Change the form where necessary.
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Answers:
1)
get the hang of
2)
have lived through
3)
makes a difference
4)
have no idea
5)
concerned with
6)
slipped over
7)
ran into
8)
in reverse
9)
mull over
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Increasing Your Word Power
1.
Decide whether
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do
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,
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make
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or
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take
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is needed to complete each of the following sentences.
Change the verb form where necessary.