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3. If you set up home, this means that you have become homeless.<br />

4. If your journey is set back, this means that it takes you l<strong>on</strong>ger than you expected.<br />

5. If some bad weather has set in, this means the bad weather has started and become<br />

permanent.<br />

6. If you set aside some m<strong>on</strong>ey, this means that you spend it.<br />

7. If you set about doing something, this means you have finished doing it.<br />

2. Choose the correct word.<br />

1. They set in/back/<strong>on</strong>/out/off/up <strong>on</strong> their trip around India last week.<br />

2. So<strong>on</strong> after they’d got married, they set in/back/<strong>on</strong>/out/off/up home in Leeds.<br />

3. It’s been snowing for two days now; winter has set in/<strong>on</strong>/out/off/up.<br />

4. A house like that would set you in/back/<strong>on</strong>/out/off/up at least a milli<strong>on</strong> pounds.<br />

5. She set in/back/<strong>on</strong>/out/off/up her own company 10 years ago.<br />

6. The journey was set in/back/<strong>on</strong>/out/off/up because of the nasty weather.<br />

3. Insert the words from the vocabulary.<br />

1. The old house ... unpleasant memories in him.<br />

2. A feeling of excitement ....in her.<br />

3. Feeling that she was guilty she looked at him ....<br />

4. He was laid off and had to think how ... himself.<br />

5. A sense of hope began ... in him <strong>on</strong> hearing the news.<br />

6. A gentle breeze ...the leaves.<br />

7. The house is large and difficult to ....<br />

8. It ... me to see him beat his wife.<br />

4. Find syn<strong>on</strong>yms in the text to the words given below.<br />

noise, peaceful, keep, defend, shy, stillness, hate, assert, create<br />

DISCUSSION POINT<br />

Military career<br />

I am in the Army<br />

1. What is that man’s job?<br />

2. Does this job attract you? Why? Why not?<br />

3. Life in the army is difficult, isn’t it? Do you<br />

train to join it?<br />

Growing into a man<br />

M<strong>on</strong>day, 25 December<br />

I feel really excited! Here I am at last! In the Commandos Training Centre! There<br />

are thirty of us. Today was really difficult. It began with exercises. They made us do<br />

eighty-five sit-ups in two minutes, forty jumpy jumps in a minute, and run 300 metres<br />

in forty-<strong>on</strong>e sec<strong>on</strong>ds ... and that was just the start. Then it was the famous Tarsan course<br />

- climbing ropes high in the air. If we fell off, they made us do it again, and again and<br />

again ...<br />

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