The key answer of exercise 10
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.1 - Feeling lucky? for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education
Question
Read and complete the questionnaire from Richard Wiseman's book, The Luck Factor. Check you understand the underlined phrases.
Answer
- have a tendency to worry = tend to worry
- open to new experiences = happy to try out new things
- gut feelings and hunches = a feeling that you are sure is right although you cannot give a reason for it
- intuition = feelings rather than the facts
- to get what I want from life = decide what is important in life and obtain it
- chances of success seem slim = a strong possibility that this will not work
- look on the bright side = be optimistic
- work out well = a situation will turn out for the better
- in the long run = in the long term
- dwell on things = think for too long about something unpleasant