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Emphasis & misunderstanding
A. (Emphasis) Match the sentences on the left with an appropriate sentence on the right.
1. The minister's emphasis on the word A. The government will have to sit up and
'peace' was noticeable.
take note of what these important people
2. Our guide accentuated the importance of have to say
remaining calm if there was trouble.
B. She emphasised the fact that panicking
3. Our teacher explained that it was crucially
would only make matters worse.
important to pace ourselves while revising C. The leader gave prominence to the need to
for the exam.
create better job opportunities.
4. At the People's Party conference, the accent D. We consider progress in this field to be
was on youth unemployment.
extremely important.
5. Prominent trade unionists have called for a E. He put great stress on the maxim that 'All
boycott of imported goods.
work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'.
6. It is of crucial importance that we make F. He stressed again and again the importance
more use of technology if we are to make
of an established detente.
progress.
general vocabulary
B. (Emphasis) Now complete these sentences with an expression in bold from the above
exercise. In some cases, more than one answer may be possible.
1. Some medical treatments do very little to help the patient. In fact, in some cases, they only
the pain.
2. The revolution began when a member of the ruling party was
assassinated.
3. At the meeting of the Students' Council, the was on better standards of
accommodation.
4. She the need to be fully prepared for all eventualities while travelling.
5. The Minister of Transport on the need for an integrated transport policy.
6. It is that we try to improve relations between our countries.
7. She banged the table for as she spoke.
C. (Misunderstanding) Complete sentences 1 - 8 with an appropriate word or expression from
the box. In some cases, more than one answer is possible.
mix-up • obscure • impression • distorted
misapprehension • mistaken • confusion • assumed • confused
1. She was by the journalist's questions.
2. There were scenes of at the airport when the snowstorm stopped all the flights.
3. We nearly didn't catch our flight because of a over the tickets.
4. There are several points in his letter. It's not very clear.
5. He the meaning of my speech, creating the false impression that I was a racist.
6. He was under the that socialism and communism were the same thing.
7. The jury , wrongly, that he was innocent.
8. They were in the belief that the refugees were in the country for
economic rather than political reasons.
9. The press were under the that the Prime Minister was about to resign.
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