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Reading and Vocabulary

A. Discuss with a partner.

1. Do you wear a watch? Why/Why not?
2. Do you know anyone who owns a collection of watches?
3. To what extent do you think people wear watches less nowadays than in the past?
4. Watches nowadays do more than just tell the time. What other functions do they have?

B. Complete the sentences with the words in the boxes. Use a dictionary to help you.

comeback chunky timepiece contemporary conventional

cumbersome sedentary sophisticated yesteryear

1. People sometimes refer to the past in a nostalgic way as .

2. If your work and hobbies don’t involve much movement, you can be described as having a
lifestyle.
3. These two adjectives describe something which is heavy and sometimes gets in the way:
and .
4. We can use the adjective to describe technology which is advanced and modern.
5. When something goes out of fashion, but then becomes popular again, we say it has made a
.
6. If you want to say that something is up-to-date and popular now, you can say it’s .
7. We often use the word to refer to watches, but it can also be a clock, sundial or
calendar.
8. The adjective means traditional or typical.

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