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B1 Listening
1A, 2D, 3C, 4B

Lockdown Laughs
1 velvet, 2 lowly, 3 passion fruit, 4 fondant, 5 essentials, 6 curator, 7 gross, 8 bun, 9 plague

Secrets of England
1 Puzzlewood, 2 Eyam, 3 Fort Roughs Tower (which later turned into the Principality of Sealand), 4 Witley Underwater Ballroom, Kelvedon Hatch Bunker, 5 Fort Roughs Tower / The Principality of Sealand, Witley Underwater Ballroom, Mother Shipton’s Cave

The Puzzler

Word Wheel: In total, it is possible to make 120 words that are listed in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, but that includes very rare words like “arow” (an adverb meaning “in a row”), “meaow” (the sound a cat makes, more commonly spelt “meow”) and “ofay” (Afro-American slang for a white person). Here are most of the more common words: (A1) early, farm, meal, warm, wear, year (A2) real, meow (B1) army, fare, fear, frame, lawyer, leaf, male (B2) aero, afro, aloe, fame, flame, flora, foal, foam, formal, lame, layer, leafy, loaf, loafer, mare, mayo, mayor, moral, moray, oral, relay, roam, royal, wafer, warmly, (C1&2) afore, amyl, feral, flare, flaw, foamy, fora, molar, morale, realm, wary, weary. The nine‑letter word is Mayflower.

Confusing Sentences: (some variation possible) 1 The car that had been raced past the house crashed (i.e. Someone had raced the car past the house, then crashed it.) 2 Sally gave a biscuit to the girl who was bitten by a dog. 3 The man who was hit by the girl Joe loved survived (i.e. Joe loved a girl. She hit a man with her car. He survived.) 4 The author wrote that the novel was great. 5 Married men are housed in the building complex. 6 An angry dog attacked a man who was holding an axe.

Odd Word Out: They all spell a different word when read backwards (desserts, mined, repaid, straw) except for racecar, which is a palindrome (= a word that is the same when you read it forwards from the beginning or backwards from the end).

Strange World: Metro lines of eight different cities (Berlin, Paris, Chicago, New York, Budapest, Beijing, Moscow and Taipei).

Do You Know Your Landmarks?
1 Stonehenge
2 Hadrian’s Wall
3 Windsor Castle
4 White Cliffs of Dover
5 Angel of the North
6 Lake District
7 Tower Bridge
8 Cambridge University

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
1D, 2B, 3A, 4F, 5C, 6E

Let’s Practise
I. Complete the sentences.
1C, 2A, 3C, 4C, 5B, 6C, 7B, 8C, 9B, 10B
II. Which sentence is wrong?
1C, 2A, 3C, 4B, 5B
III. Complete the second sentence.
1 forward to seeing, 2 does this necklace, 3 haven’t seen / have not seen, 4 worse/poorer singer than, 5 was built, 6 unable to / not able to, 7 can use a / can pay by, 8 less than, 9 is forbidden / is prohibited / is not allowed / is banned, 10 lent, 11 whose, 12 far from, 13 unless, 14 come late / am late, 15 about, 16 so
IV. Bog Snorkelling
1 from, 2 for, 3 of, 4 to / for, 5 in, 6 of, 7 with / through, 8 for, 9 from, 10 as, 11 on, 12 by

Hamlet (back cover)
“A naturally rational mind disordered by grief, murder and the hollow insufficiency of revenge.” – Benedict Cumberbatch
“This Hamlet is proactive, masculine, edgy to the point of aggression.” – Tom Hiddleston
“This is a Hamlet of quicksilver intelligence and wild humour.” – David Tennant
“Wide-eyed and baby-faced, this Hamlet is boyish.” – Ruth Negga
“This Hamlet is a graffiti prince.” – Paapa Essiedu