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Barbie’s 50th Anniversary

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –

http://goo.gl/1FbC9M

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

1. Which toy is been called as the cultural icon?
2. Which year did Barbie first sent out to sale?
3. What is the sale of Barbie in present time?
4. How is Richard Dixon associated with Barbie?
5. How much countries is Barbie sold in?
6. Which term is used to refer to a product made by a company and sold all over the world?
7. What would be the measurements of Barbie if she was a real person?
8. What are the two synonyms of average?
9. Which word is used to define a idea that is fixed and often people are not ready to change?
10. Which word describes the idea of a person or thing that a person hold?
11. Which word is used to explain “to show”?
12. Which word is used in negative sense to talk about someone who is very thin?
13. Which expression is often used to tell that someone is very cautious about what the person is thinking about?

ANSWER

1. Barbie
2. 1959
3. 3 per second
4. Senior Vice President
5. 150
6. global brand
7. 36-18-38
8. typical or usual
9. stereotype
10. Image
11. portray
12. skinny
13. politically correct

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Credit Crunch

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

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS

1. What is the situation when your property becomes cheaper than what you paid for?
2. Whom did Ian Macwhirter warned while buying property?
3. What is the process in which a person buys a house and then sells it to buy a better house called?
4. What is the period when it seems difficult to get credit and interest rates are high called?
5. When was the first time the use of credit crunch came around?

ANSWER

1. negative equity
2. first-time buyers
3. property ladder
4. credit crunch
5. June 2007

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Problem Pronunciation

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/mJGLM4

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS

1. Which word is used to explain that you have not pronounced a word correctly?
2. What are the three most mispronounced words in English?
3. : How many sounds do experts say we need to be able to pronounce – so that we can speak English clearly?
4. Which is the most mispronounced word in English?
5. What sounds make pronouncing phenomenon difficult?
6. What sounds are present in the word anesthetist?
7. What is the word or sentence that is difficult to say or repeat called?

ANSWER

1. mispronounced
2. regularly,ethnicity,anaesthetist
3. 44
4. phenomenon
5. m,n
6. t,th,s
7. tongue twister

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Adult Children

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/04rBgb
Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

1. A 12 year old boy in the United States was the first to divorce his parents – but when did that happen?
2. Which phrase is used to talk about something that costs you money?
3. What phrase is being used by the speaker to tell that you are following your dreams?
4. Which country has the law the children have the right to ask for money from parents even after they have become adults?
5. When a law is made for a particular case and from then it carries forward to all the other cases, which word describes such a situation?

ANSWER

1. 1992
2. incur expenses
3. pursue an aspiration
4. Italy
5. set a precedenc

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