Ex.3.2. Solve these riddles.
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1 I am a vegetable that sits where humans sit. What am I?
2 I seldom sit and talk, I always act. What am I?
3 I am a bird that eats the flesh of art. What am I?
4 I do some of this and some of that, but never all of this or all of that. What am I?
Ex.3.3. Answer these questions.
1 What kind of obsessions or addictions do you personally have?
2 What was the word above that meant `a person who is obsessed with going out and buying things'?
3 Using the same construction as in question 2 above, what could you call a person who is obsessed with, or addicted to, the following?
a) working all the time b) sport c) eating chocolate
4 What are you? Invent a word for your obsession(s).
Ex.3.4. In the text below, find…
1 three expressions meaning `time when you aren't working'.
2 an expression meaning `divided equally'.
3 an expression meaning `reducing the amount of work needed to do something'.
4 two words that mean `getting machines to do work for us'.
5 an expression meaning `making many articles/goods at once'.
| This is how one expert on leisure time sees things changing over a long period. - With the advent of agriculture 10,000 years ago, former hunters and gatherers gained ten per cent of their time off. - By the 1770s, mechanisation increased leisure time to twenty-three per cent. - By the 1990s, automation and mass production gave people forty-one per cent free time. - By 2015, new technologies and labour-saving goods and services will split the week fifty/fifty between work and leisure. |