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

The key answer of exercise 3

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

  1. Listen and complete the rest of the conversation below.
  2. Work in pairs. Do you know or can you guess from the context what the colloquial words and phrases in exercise 3a mean?

Answer

  1. rip-off - unreasonably high prices
  2. wanna - want to
  3. How come? - What do you mean?
  4. off with me - distant with me
  5. like - filler word
  6. gonna - going to
  7. blah blah blah - indicates speech that's considered predictable