55.1
2 driving 3 to go
4 to go 5 raining
6 to buy 7 asking
8 asking 9 to answer
10 breaking 11 to pay
12 eating 13 to shut
14 meeting... to see
15 crying or to cry
16 to get
55.2
2 He can remember going to Paris when he was eight.
3 He can't remember falling into a river.
4 He can remember crying on his first day at school.
5 He can't remember saying he wanted to be a doctor. or He can't remember wanting to be.
6 He can't remember being bitten by a dog.
55.3
1 b. lending
c. to phone
d. to give
e. leaving/putting
2 a. saying
b. to say or to tell you
3 a. to become
b. working
c. reading
UNIT 56
56.1
2 Try turning it the other way.
3 Have you tried moving the aerial?
4 Why don't you try phoning him at work?
5 Have you tried taking an aspirin?
56.2
2 It needs cutting.
3 It needs redecorating.
4 They need tightening.
5 It needs emptying.
56.3
1 b. knocking c. to put
d. asking e. to reach
f. to concentrate
2 a. to go b. looking
c. cleaning d. to go
e. You don't need to iron... It doesn't need ironing
3 a. overhearing b. get or to get
c. smiling
d. make or to make
UNIT 57
57.1
3 likes taking/to take photographs.
4 doesn't like driving/to drive.
5 likes working/to work in the open air.
6 doesn't like taking/to take risks.
7 likes doing/to do nothing.
8 doesn't like being/to be kept waiting.
57.2 Example answers:
2 I don't mind playing cards.
3 I hate doing the ironing.
4 I enjoy going to museums.
5 I don't like lying on the beach all day.
57.3 Example answers:
2 I wouldn't like to be a dentist.
3 I'd like to be a hairdresser.
4 I'd hate to be an airline pilot.
5 I wouldn't mind being a tourist guide.
57.4
2 waiting 3 going/to go
4 writing 5 working/being
6 to come to go
7 wearing to wear
8 to sit 9 to get
10 to talk/to speak
57.5
2 I would like/I'd like to have seen the programme.
3 I would hate to have lost my watch.
4 I would love to have met Ann.
5 I wouldn't like to have been alone.
6 I would prefer to have travelled by train.