Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.3 - My digital memory for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs and look at the underlined verb phrases. Look at the context of the whole sentence and say what you think each verb phrase means.

Answer

  1. I made up my mind = I made a decision after thinking about it first
  2. things slip my mind = I forget to do things
  3. change my mind = reverse my decision
  4. it crossed my mind = I thought about it briefly
  5. nothing springs to mind = I can't think of any ideas at this moment
  6. I'll keep it in mind = I will consider this when I make a decision / do it
  7. it's hard to keep my mind on it = it's hard to concentrate on it
  8. he speaks his mind = he says what he thinks, even if it offends other people