Answer — Exercise 3
8.3 - Fast men·New Total English Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book
Question
Explain the significance of the phrases from the text.
Answer
- Lightning Bolt is a play on words. In a storm, a bolt of lightning is very quick - Usain is very quick and his surname is Bolt.
- A talent for sprinting means he was very good at running very fast over short distances.
- He didn’t train very hard means that he didn’t practice very much for his races.
- He turned professional means he started sprinting as if it were a job.
- From strength to strength means he got better and better.
- Something he was born with means that Usain thinks that being fast is natural talent.
- Keep him focused means that his manager helped him to concentrate on his objectives.
- Smashed his own record means he beat his own record, running much faster than he had done before.