Complete the table.

   

   ACTION                          PERSON                          THING                          
   1   apply                          _____________________           _____________________       
                                                                                                  
   2   ____________________           assistant                       _____________________       
                                                                                                  
   3   ____________________           _____________________           translation                 
                                                                                                  
   4   ____________________           adviser                         _____________________       
                                                                                                  
   5   ____________________           _____________________           invention                   
                                                                                                  
   6   ____________________           interviewer/interviewee         _____________________       
                                                                                                  
   7   ____________________           lover                           _____________________       
                                                                                                  
   8   criticize                      _____________________           _____________________       
                                                                                                  
   9   use                            ____________________            _____________________       
                                                                                                  
   10 ___________________             employer/employee               _____________________       
                                                                                                  
   11 ___________________             ____________________            speech                      
                                                                                                  
   12 discover                        ____________________            _____________________       
                                                                                                  
                                                                                                  

   

   

   C Explain how the choice of words changes the meaning in 1-4 below.

   

   1  Are you the new trainer/trainee?

   2  Look at the interviewee/interviewer when you speak.

   3  Don't throw the critic/criticism in the waste basket.

   4  Do you want to kill the competitor/competition?

   

   

   Read through this text. Then use the words in capital letters below it to form a word that
   fits each space.

   

   Like all (0) ............................., Elias Howe had sudden 'flashes of (1)
   ..............................'. His strange dream is just one example of (2)
   ...................................... processes that are still beyond our  (3)
   ..................................... . This is why there is so much (4)
   ................................ about dreams and what they really are. Dreams have no (5)
   ................................. at the time we have them. Our (6)
   .................................... of dreams happens after they are over. Some (7)
   ................................ think that our dreams are partly the (8)
   ................................... of our unconscious minds. Our memory of the dream may be
   (9) .................................. different from the dream we (10)
   ............................... had.

   

   0    INVENT                           6 INTERPRET

   1    INSPIRE                          7 SCIENCE

   2    PSYCHOLOGY               8 PRODUCE

   3    UNDERSTAND               9 COMPLETE

   4    AGREE                             10 ACTUAL

   5    MEAN