Exercise 15. Think about your home. List all the compound nouns you can think of in answer to the following questions.

1. Where are the books kept?

Most of the books are on bookshelves_, but there are a few in a small bookcase in my room.

2. What are your two favourite rooms?

3. What electrical appliances are there in your kitchen?

4. Where are the most comfortable places to sit?

5. What can you see from your front door?

Exercise 16. When Luis can't remember the exact name of something in English he describes it instead. Do you know what he is describing in the underlined sections? The answers are compound nouns made from the following words.

bargain friend ground hunters language mother package pedestrian pen precinct sign staff tongue tour

1. 'John works for an airline. He doesn't fly, but he's one of the people who work in the airport building.' ground staff

2. 'He works in town in that area where there are shops, but no cars or buses are allowed to go

3. 'During the sales in the shops, there were lots of people looking to buy things at low prices.'

4. It's someone I often exchange letters with, but I've never met.'

5. 'We're going on a holiday arranged by a travel company. It includes accommodation, flights, and so on.'

6. 'Portuguese is the first language that I learned when I was a baby.'

7. 'My friend can't talk. He uses hand and body movements to show what he means.'

Exercise 17. What do you call...?

1. a shelf for books a book shelf

2 .the pages of a book that lists the contents

3. a train which carries goods

4. an expert in robotics

5. a test to detect drugs

6. a shop which sell toys

7. a case for putting pencils in

8. an essay which is four pages long

9. a film lasting two hours

10. an issue of human rights

Exercise 18. Michael Warren is at an interview for a job in a film production company. He has been asked why he wants the job, and this is part of his answer. Suggest compound nouns to fill in the spaces in this text. One of the parts of the compound is given in brackets. Choose the other part from the -ing forms below.

advertising answering breathing cutting losing mailing making recording selling turning waiting

Just after I left university, I met an old friend who offered me the opportunity to join his company, Phono, selling a new type of mobile phone. I organized a(n) (1) advertising campain (campaign) and set up a(n) (2)...............(list) with the names and addresses of people who might be interested in it. The main (3)...............(point) of the phone was that it included a(n) (4)...............(.machine), and was the only one of its kind on the market at the time. At first the demand was so great that there was a(n) (5)...............(list) of people wanting to buy one. Unfortunately, a year later Sonex brought out its new video phone, and this was the (6)...............(point) for Phono. Demand for our phone plummeted. We did a lot of (7)...............(cost) to try to save money, but it wasn't long before we knew we were fighting a(n) (8)...............(battle) and decided to close the company. I've been out of work for a few months now, but this has given me the (9)...............(space) to decide what I want to do next. When I worked for Phono, I helped produce a(n) (10)...............(video) to advertise the product. I enjoyed this a lot, and that's why I'd now like to get into (11)...............(film).

Exercise 19.Which of these can also be expressed naturally as a noun + noun pattern or a noun + 's + noun pattern?

noun + preposition + noun	noun + noun	noun + 's + noun
1. wool from a lamb 2. a headline in a newspaper 3. a nest lived in by a bird 4. insurance for a car 5. a hole in a wall 6. the uniform worn by a nurse 7. a request for help 8. the wheel of a bicycle 9. the voice of a man 10. a cloth for drying dishes	X	lamb'swool

Exercise 20. Complete the sentences on the right with appropriate compound nouns related to the two-word verbs used in the sentences on the left.