3.3 Listening: places to live

Match the adjectives with their definitions.

Complete the extract with the adjectives from the previous exercise.

Residents have their own self-contained flats or houses and gardens but share a common house for communal meals. The co-housing idea comes from Denmark where it is                  and according to the        government housing figures, tens of thousands of Danish people live in this way. There is growing interest around the world in the model as a provider of            , sustainable social housing. Building materials are natural or recycled. Springhill is not only             in building terms, but in human terms too, encouraging the       social contact that we know is key to health and happiness.
We're sure there'll be a 100 percent improvement in             relations at Springhill.

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Near antonyms are words which have contrasting meaning but are not exact opposites, e.g. surprising vs unsurprising vs normal.

Match three near antonyms in the box with each of the adjectives.
cold costly extravagant hostile infrequent irregular occasional overpriced temporary unsociable damaging wasteful
1 affordable costly                       
2 daily                                
3 neighbourly                        
4 sustainable