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Hotel Chelsea
To say that the hotel Chelsea has an interesting history would be an understatement. Sice the early twentieh century, the hotel has been home to dozens of celebrities.The fame of the building itself pre-dates its fame as a hotel; when it was constructred in 1883 as a bloc of flats, it was New York’s tallest building. It became a hotel in 1905. Although prosperous at first, during a period of maladministration the hotel began to degenerate. It went bankrupt and changed hands in 1939. Its proactive new managers soon got it up and running again and, in the post-war eta, its fame grew.
As a part of the New York artistic scene, the hotel is irreplaceable. Its famous residents have included actors, artists, singers, writers and numerous anti-establishement figures. Frida Kahlo, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jackson Pollock, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Madonna and Uma Thurman all lived there for a while, and the hotel has been immortalised (and some would say overesposed) in dozens of songs, books and films (9 ½ Weeks, The Interpreter).
Always a place of non-conformity, the hotel’s management sometimes allowed penniless residents to pay for their rooms with artworks, some of which still hang in its lobby today. Its famous residents have found the hotel conducive to creativity. Arthur C.Clarke and Jack Kerouac wrote, respectivily, 2001:A Space Odyssey and On the road while living in the hotel, and Madonna used it for a photo shoot for one of her books.
Unfortunately, the hotel is also associated with artistic misbehaviour and tragedy. One of numerous examples of wild aventures behind its closed doors, the poet Dylan Thomas collapsed in room 205 of the hotel after partyiing too hard. He died four days later.
From “Speakout” Advances by Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson
1 A Read the text again. Find and underline an example of each prefix in the first column of the table
Prefix
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Meaning
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Example
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de ir im
non...un
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negatives/
opposites/reverse
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degenerate
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under over
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mal mis
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pre post
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pro anti
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B Complete the second column of the table with the meanings in the box
negatives/ opposites/ reverse size or degre time (before or after) wrong or bad attitude or opinion (for or against)
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C Add your own examples to the third column of the table
2. Complete the words by adding prefixes
1. a place that is ________ known to most tourist because it's ______exposed in the media
2. a hotel, restaurant, bar or café that looks ______descript and a bit ________rated
3. a hotel, restaurant, bar o cafe that you think is _______attractive and a bit ______rated
4. a building that is ______inhabitable becasue it was __________managed in the past
5. a threatened habitant that is ______replaceable, but ______possible to save
3. How many examples of places in Exercice 3 can you think of?
4. Different examples.
by
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bilingue, bianual, bycicle, binocular
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co
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co-producer, co-founder, co-worker, co-owner, coincidence, coeducation, collaboration
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in
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intermediate, interact, intercity, intersection, interconnect
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mini
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minican, minigolf, minibus
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out
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outdoor, outplay, outlawed, outbreak, outskirts
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semi
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semicircle, semigod, semifinal, semi-skimmed
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sub
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subconscious, submission, submarine
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Answers.
1A/B
Prefix
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Meaning
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Example
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de ir im
non...un
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negatives/
opposites/reverse
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degenerate
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under over
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position/
more /less
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understatement
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mal mis
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negative
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maladministration
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pre post
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before/
after
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post-war
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pro anti
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attitude/
opinion
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proactive
anti-establishments
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C.
dehydratate, decode,
nonexpected, unemployed, non-conformity
understatement, overexposed
maladministration, misbehaviour
pre-dates, post-war
proactive, anti-establishments
2
1. unknown; underexposed
2. nondescript; underrated
3. unattractive; overrated
4. uninhabitable, mismanaged
5. irreplacable; impossible
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