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English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate (Unit 64: Concession and contrast)


Use the word in brackets in an appropriate collocation to make comments on these statements.

  1. Some people believe in nuclear weapons, some in world disarmament. (divide) There's a great divide between those who believe in nuclear weapons, and those who believe in world disarmament.
  2. She says one thing. She does quite the opposite. (discrepancy)
  3. Toby believes in saving as much as possible. Catalina prefers to spend all the money they earn. (poles)
  4. Being a student’s one thing; being a teacher’s quite another. (world)
  5. People in the north of the country have a totally different standard of living from those in the south. (gap)
Possible Answer

  1. There’s a huge discrepancy between what she says and what she does.
  2. Toby and Catalina are poles apart when it comes to saving money / on the question of saving money.
  3. There’s a world of difference between being a student and being a teacher.
  4. There’s a yawning gap between the standard of living in the north and in the south.
Exercise-64.2 Exercise-64.4


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