Cover of the textbook On Screen B1+ - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 9

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6b - Vocabulary for the textbook On Screen B1+ - Student's Book with authors Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley from Express Publishing

Question

  1. Fill in: stood, skin, stiff, butterflies, sheet. Which idiom can you see in the picture? Have you got similar idioms in your language?
  2. Make your own sentences using these idioms. Tell your partner.

Answer

  1. 1) sheet; 2) butterflies; 3) stiff; 4) skin; 5) stood; The picture shows a woman with butterflies in her stomach.
  2. 1) You look as white as a sheet - what happened?; 2) Some actors get butterflies in their stomach before they're about to go on stage.; 3) Have you ever been scared stiff?; 4) You made me jump out of my skin when you crept up behind me like that.; 5) I thought I saw a ghost and my hair stood on end.