Cover of the textbook Navigate Advanced C1 - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.2 - The invention of leisure for the textbook Navigate Advanced C1 - Workbook with authors Julie Moore from Oxford University Press

Question

Rewrite the sentences, replacing the words in italics with words and phrases from exercise 4. There may be more than one possible answer.

Answer

  1. The noise of the construction work outside our hotel room was driving me up the wall (really) getting on my nerves.
  2. The ambulance staff were trying to get the victim to calm down.
  3. Joon-he seemed a bit stressed out moving house.
  4. When there's an inspection at the hospital, all the staff are on edge (about it).
  5. We're going to the coast for a long weekend, just to chill out.
  6. I was a bundle of nerves (really on edge/really stressed out) before the interview, but talking to Patrick about it made me feel better.
  7. It may sound easy, but it's actually a very demanding task that requires great skill and patience.
  8. I find that the people there generally have a more laid-back attitude to life than we do.
  9. We start to get on each other's nerves/drive each other up the wall if we spend too much time together.