Cover of the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1A - We are family for the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Jerry Lambert and Kate Chomacki from Oxford University Press

Question

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  3. Look at the text What's your personality? Read the questions and possible answers. With a partner, try to work out the meaning of the highlighted phrasal verbs and idioms, but don't look them up yet.

Answer

  • puts things off = delays until a later time or date
  • to the letter = paying attention to every detail
  • get stuck = be unable to continue
  • put together = to make or prepare something by fitting or collecting parts or information together
  • catches your eye = attracts your attention
  • go round = follow a route
  • head-on = in a direct way
  • your gut feeling = your natural feelings that make you react in a particular way
  • a white lie = a harmless or small lie, especially one that you tell to avoid hurting somebody
  • carry on = continue