The key to exercise solutions in chapter Vocabulary 10 for the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Rachael Roberts, Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson from Pearson Education
Question
Work in pairs. Discuss the difference in meaning between the following verbs.
Complete the sentences with the verbs from exercise 3a.
Answer
a)
see→ to notice something using your eyes, deliberately or by chance, for a long or a short time; look at → usually for a short time deliberately; watch → for a long time deliberately, paying attention to what is happening (e.g. a TV programme)
listen to → deliberately; hear → probably by chance
touch → for one moment, usually with your hands; hold → for a long time, in your hands or arms