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4e Can you live without it?

. VOCABULARY . LISTENING

WORD BUILDING A. Discuss.
A. Read the examples. What’s the • Have you got a mobile phone?
difference between useful and useless? • When do you use it?
• This book is very useful. I learnt B. Listen to four people talking about mobile
a lot about cooking from it. phones and match the names with the
• My new mobile phone is useless. statements. There is one extra statement
It never works when I need it. which you do not need to use.
a. Mobiles can be annoying.
Frank b. Children don’t use mobile
NOTE A lot of adjectives are formed by adding Julie phones more than adults.
a suffix (-ful, -less) to a verb or noun.
c. Mobiles can be very expensive.
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B. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the Roger d. Mobiles can be harmful to
words in capitals. your health.
Nancy e. Mobiles are helpful when you
1. Don’t be afraid of the spider. It’s .
need them.
HARM
2. Leonardo DiCaprio is a actor. . SPEAKING
SUCCESS Discuss.
3. Don’t let John do the washing-up. He is Talk in groups of four. What do you think of mobile
very . CARE phones? Discuss the positive and negative aspects
of having a mobile phone, using the ideas in the
4. I have nobody to talk to. I feel . box. Write notes in the table and then use your
HELP notes to present your arguments to the class. Give
5. I asked my sister to help me fix my computer, reasons for your answers.
but she wasn’t very . She
I believe...
doesn’t know much about computers. HELP I disagree. In my opinion...
6. I went to Amanda’s wedding yesterday. She You’re right. I also think...
looked . BEAUTY
7. I love living in the country because it’s very Talk about:
. PEACE • size
8. Sweets are to your teeth. • cost
HARM • what they’re used for
9. Please be with that knife. • people’s health
• if people can become addicted
CARE
• if they can be annoying

POSITIVE NEGATIVE

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