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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.1 - Learning from experience for the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Rachael Roberts, Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Complete the phrases with the words in the box.
  2. Match the phrases in bold in exercise 3a with the definitions (a-e).

Answer

a)

  1. heart
  2. picking
  3. steep
  4. thrown
  5. crash

b)

  1. crash course
  2. learn by heart
  3. was just thrown into / thrown
  4. had a really steep learning curve
  5. picking it up