General English Level 5 GELEV5 Unit 05 Topic 01.doc  READING 02 The way we were - task 1. Read these questions. 2. Look at the website The way we were again. 3. Choose TRUE or FALSE for the statements below. 1. Ragtime was a popular kind of dance at the turn of the century.  TRUE  FALSE 2. Women's fashions became straighter after 1900.  TRUE  FALSE 3. During the 1900s, the horse was used as the main form of transport.  TRUE  FALSE 4. People wore snowshoes so they could climb up the mountain, and then ski down it.  TRUE  FALSE 5. At the turn of the century, movies were black and white and the actors spoke.  TRUE  FALSE 6. It was common for men to wear a hat during the daytime, but not the evening.  TRUE  FALSE 7. A tram used liquid fuel for power.  TRUE  FALSE 8. You needed a lot of energy to play tennis. It was an aggressive sport.  TRUE  FALSE  LANGUAGE FOCUS 03 Suffixes and prefixes 1. Prefixes In The Way we were, it says: … even though they were unsuitable for their climate and lifestyle. These were very slow, uncomfortable and expensive. We can add un at the beginning of some adjectives, to give them the opposite meaning. Examples unsafe unhealthy unkind unreliable unbelievable unhappy untidy unfashionable 155 QUESTLANGUAGE