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

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5A - No time for anything 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

  1. Listen to three people talking about waiting for things. What situations do they complain about? Do you agree with them?
  2. Listen again and complete each extract with four words.

Answer

a)

  1. Waiting at home for a delivery
  2. Waiting for films or TV programmes to download
  3. Waiting for an appointment with, e.g. a hairdresser / dentist / doctor

b)

  1. could be any time = at a time that it not fixed
  2. from time to time = occasionally
  3. turn up on time = arrive at exactly the correct time