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52.3
description
name of shape
adjective
round shape
circle
circular
shape with three sides
triangle
triangular
shape with eight sides
octagon
octagonal
shaped a bit like an egg
oval
oval
three-dimensional round shape
sphere
spherical
three-dimensional square shape
cube
cubic
52.4
2 Oxygen accounts for forty-six point six per cent of the earth’s crust.
3 Seven nines are sixty-three.
4 The temperature today is eighteen degrees Celsius.
5 My bedroom is three multiplied by six metres.
6 What is six to the power of nine?
7 Eleven sixteenths of the students passed the exam.
8 Two thirds times five cubed is eighty-three and a third.
52.5
Unit 53
53.1
2 age / era
3 stages / phases
4 stage (or era)
5 phase
6 spell
53.2
Possible answers:
2 went on / dragged on
4 fly
6 timeless
8 momentary
3 Age
5 elapsed
7 fleeting
53.3
Possible answers:
2 Hi! You’re just in time for tea/coffee.
3 By the time you get this card, I’ll be in New York.
4 Can you please come one at a time? / I’ll speak to you one at a time.
5 Can you use the old computer for the time being, please?
6 I’ll do my best to arrive/be on time.
7 The weather can be very hot at times in (
city name
).
8 I enjoy a game of tennis from time to time.
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