Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 05 - Vocabulary - Colloquial language for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs. Find at least seven colloquial words and phrases in the conversation below. Guess what they mean.

Answer

  • All right ..? - How are you?
  • What's up? — What's the matter?
  • stressed out - unhappy and frustrated
  • Grab a chair - Sit down
  • He's doing my head in - I find him really exasperating
  • what's going on? - what's happening?
  • chill out - calm down