The key to exercise solutions in chapter Vocabulary 9 for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education
Question
Match the words which are often found in news headlines (1-12), with the meanings (a-l).
Work in pairs and discuss what you think the headlines below might mean.
Answer
a)
i
d
j
h
c
l
f
g
k
b
e
a
b)
A well-known Hollywood actor has been involved in a tense situation in a bank, maybe a robbery.
A very successful sports personality is going to leave the sporting life.
politician has been involved with a spy in some way.
A prince and a shop assistant are planning to get married.