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

Answer for exercise 3

The solution for exercise 3 in chapter 05 - Vocabulary - Colloquial language of Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book by Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave

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
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