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Keeping In Touch

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/pv3fWE

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

1. Which slug name is used in the UK to talk about postal service?
2. Which phrasal verb is used to refer to a letter or a parcel that is posted to a person?
3. Which word is used to refer to something that is private or just for a particular person?
4. What is the meaning of “nice to touch”?
5. Which phrase is used to refer to something that has withstand itself in years?
6. What is a friend whom you are in touch with letters called?
7. What is a friend whom you are in touch with letters called?
8. What is a phrasal verb for “to connect with”?

ANSWERS

1. snail mail
2. came through
3. exclusive
4. tactile
5. long-standing
6. pen pal
7. key pals
8. link up

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Spring Cleaning

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/ExKGA9

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

1. What does cleaning your house from top to bottom called?
2. If you simply spray and chemical and pretend that you have been cleaning your room, it is called?
3. How many hours does average woman spends doing house hold work?
4. Which word describes you if are interested or worried about something in an extreme way?
5. Describe the person who spends all their time cleaning.
6. Which word describes the act when you give up lot of things that are not required in your house?
7. Which phrase is used to express something that makes you happier?

ANSWER

1. Spring cleaning
2. Skimming
3. 7 hours
4. obsessive
5. Clean freak
6. Clear out
7. Lift your spirits

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Workaholism

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/mRDPbs

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

1. What is the addiction of work called?
2. In the UK, how many hours are there in the standard working week?
3. What is the right balance between personal and professional life called?
4. Which word is used to describe something that is the standard behavior?
5. Which word can best explain the long term exhaustion from work or personal relations?
6. What emotional problems come from working too much?
7. The ability of producing more output in a certain time is called?
8. If something becomes less important than any other event, it becomes which issue?

ANSWER

1. Workaholism.
2. 40 hours
3. Work-life balance
4. Norm
5. Burn out
6. Frustration, anxiety, terrible feelings
7. Productivity
8. Secondary issue

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Disappearing Words

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/DhcFF2

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

1. Some of the oldest sounding English words date back to how many years?
2. What is the gradual process of change and development over a long period of time called?
3. Which numerical words are told by the scientist as being very old?
4. Which is the oldest pronoun in English?
5. When a person tells what might happen in future as per the knowledge he/she has, what is he/she doing?
6. Which phrasal verb has the same meaning as to die out?
7. Which word does the scientist predicts to get lost in the near future?
8. The word that describes how often something happens is ______________.
9. Which phrase best explains the language that we use most frequently?
10. Which word means that you will continue to use it or keep it?
11. Towards the end, which two words are predicted to get extinct?

ANSWER

1. 20000
2. Evolution
3. two, three, five
4. I
5. predicting
6. to become extinct
7. dirty
8. frequency
9. common everyday speech
10. retain
11. squeeze and guts

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