Answer key people and relationships Vocabulary: Character and personality Exercise ambitious

Exercise 15
1 the past continuous used to give background: I was 
cycling along
main action: Suddenly I looked back and my granddad 
was nowhere to be seen.
3 a 1 were jum ping; 2 were enjoying; 3 walked;
4 told
b 1 was; 2 were w alking; 3 ran; 4 was barking;
5 w ere; 6 tried ; 
7 bit
Exercise 16
1 past perfect and past sim ple: I cycled back the way I 
had come, [I] found him lying on the ground. He had 
tripped on some loose paving.
3 1 was playing; 2 was being (Note: You are careless = 
You are a careless person; You are being careless -  
You are careless now, but usually you are not.)
3 heard; 4 went; 5 saw; 6 had broken; 7 arrived; 
8 sa id ; 9 looked; 10gasped; 11 realised; 12had 
happened; 13 blamed; 14 had asked; 15 was
9 
Home
Vocabulary: Describing places
Exercise 1
City: 1; 3; 4; 6 
Country: 2; 5
Exercise 2
1 1 c ; 2 a ; 
3 d ; 
4 b; 5 e; 6 g; 7 h ; 8 f; 91;
10 i; 11 n; 12 m; 13 k; 14 j
Vocabulary: Comparing now and then
Exercise 4
1 1 Back in the 1960s; 2 since the 60s; 3 in recent 
years
2 1 as tim e goes on; 2 It used to be; 3 but now
3 1 A century ago; 2 Nowadays; 3 are being 
converted
2 a past sim ple (other past tenses can also be used 
to describe the past); 
b present sim ple, present 
perfect (changes that have taken place over tim e], 
present continuous (a change s till in progress)
Vocabulary: Suffixes
Exercise 6
1 1 m otherhood; 2 forgetfulness; 3 addressee;
4 treatm e nt; 5 alcoholism ; 6 craftsm anship;
7 awareness; 8 employee; 9 disappointm ent;
10 heroism ; 11 leadership; 12 neighbourhood
2 Sample answers: -ship: apprenticeship, 
sponsorship; -ness: completeness, fairness;