Time 1 Answer these questions

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978-0-521-17922-5 – Cambridge Vocabulary for IELTS Advanced Band 6.5+
Pauline Cullen
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Time
1.1
Answer these questions.
1 
Has your attitude to your free time 
changed since you were a child? (In 
what way?)
2 
What value is there in teaching 
history to children?
3 
What is the best way to learn about 
history? 
4 
Do you think older people are more interested in the past than children are? (Why? / Why not?)
5 
What influence do you think the past has over the present?
1.2
04
Listen to two people answering the questions in 
1.1
. Which question are they answering?
Speaker 1 
Speaker 2 
1.3
04
 
CoLLoCATIon
Now listen again and note the expressions connected with time. You may 
need to listen several times and/or read recording script 04 at the back of the book.
2.1
Do the words in the box refer to the past or the present? 
retrospect contemporary bygone immediate preceding current topical status quo
2.2
 
 
CoLLoCATIon
Complete the sentences with the words in the box in 
2.1
. Use a dictionary to 
help you and to check collocations with the words in bold. There may be more than one possible 
answer.
1 
The exhibition contains faded photographs reminding us of a 
era.
2 
He mixes 
ideas with those of years gone by. 
3 
There will always be people who resist change and want to maintain the 
.