Answer — Exercise 10
13 - The hunt for news·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
Question
With your partner, write four short dialogues based around other sayings from Exercise 7.
Answer
One possible example for each of the remaining sayings:
- A: I can’t believe you carried on running with that blister on your foot.
- B: Hey well, you know what they say – when the going gets tough.
- A: Even Dad was up dancing by the end and he hates dancing.
- B: Well, if you can’t beat them.
- A: Are you really going to get up at five to go down to the market?
- B: Hey, the early bird catches the worm.
- A: Can’t be a genuine Rolex.
- B: Almost certainly not but never look a gift horse – it seems to work OK.
- A: I got quite a good redundancy payment in the end.
- B: Oh well, every cloud.
- A: I keep thinking maybe I’d be better off working for a bigger company.
- B: Yeah maybe, but the grass is always greener, isn’t it? There’ll be frustration there too.