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

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Colloquial English 8 & 9 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. Watch some extracts from the interview and complete the missing words in the highlighted phrases.
  2. With a partner, say how you could express the highlighted phrases in more formal or neutral language.

Answer

  1. pretty sure = quite sure / certain; out there = in the natural world
  2. by going = by saying
  3. something like = approximately / about
  4. bit of a pest = rather
  5. hundred or so = approximately / about
  6. or whatever = something like that
  7. the whole lot = all of it / everything
  8. I went = I said; She was like = She replied