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6
If your TV is not working, you’d want to have it
mended/repaired.
4
I’d have a puncture mended or I’d mend a puncture
myself
I’d have my room painted or I’d paint my room myself.
I’d have shelves put up or I’d put up shelves myself.
I’d have my car serviced or I’d service my car myself.
I’d have a broken window repaired or I’d repair a
broken window myself.
I’d have a new washing machine plumbed in or I’d
plumb in a new washing machine myself.
I’d have new taps fitted or I’d fit new taps myself.
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1
Here are the words in their pairs with the positive
one always listed first.
advantages and disadvantages / good points and bad
points / benefits and drawbacks
pros and cons / gains and losses / pluses and
minuses / strengths and weaknesses
success and failure / positive aspects and negative
aspects
2
Possible answers. There are of course many different
ways of answering these questions. Ask your
teacher to correct your own answers.
1
My main strength is that I get on well with
people and my main weakness is that I am very
untidy.
2
Plane travel has been a success in that it has
allowed people to travel all over the world
relatively cheaply and easily but it could be seen
as a failure in that it has brought huge problems
for the environment.
3
The main advantage of e-learning is that students
can study when and where suits them best but
its main disadvantage is that learners can feel a
little isolated from each other.
4
The good points of the current government are
that they are giving more attention and money to
health and education than previous governments
but its bad points are that it is rather bureaucratic
and dogmatic.
5
The pros are that you can call your friends and
family whenever it suits you but the cons are
that you can never get away from people quite
so easily.
6
The pluses of television as entertainment are
that it is cheap and easily available to everyone in
their own homes. The minuses are that it can
mean that people have fewer conversations with
each other and that the quality of mass TV
entertainment can be quite low.
7
The positive aspects of living in a town are that
there are plenty of leisure facilities and that
shops and transport are generally convenient. The
negative aspects are that living in a town can be
expensive and there is also often a lot of
pollution. 
8
One benefit of single-sex education is that pupils
can concentrate more on their studies and one
drawback is that they may find it harder to mix
with the opposite sex when they are older.
9
Electricity has certainly brought many gains,
making it much easier for people to do things on
dark evenings and making it much easier to do
many jobs. The losses are harder to see but it is
certainly a major factor in pollution and it may
have contributed to the loss of some traditional
skills.
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