Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 10

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 16 - Accident-prone for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Listen to some short exchanges. See if you guessed the meanings and contexts correctly.

Answer

  1. Wow! = surprise / show you’re impressed
  2. Fff! Ouch! = sympathy for pain suffered
  3. Yuk! = disgust
  4. Gosh! = surprise
  5. Phew! = relief
  6. Mmm! = you like the taste
  7. Ahem! = trying to get attention or expressing annoyance where you might be ignored
  8. Mmm = uncertainty or a non-committal noise (neither yes or no) – in this case because you weren’t listening
  9. Umm = hesitation
  10. Oi! = you’ve seen someone doing something wrong
  11. Sshhh! = asking people to be quiet
  12. Oops! = old fashioned / polite way to say you made a mistake or dropped something, etc.