Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2 - Mixed messages for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. For each sentence below, decide.

Answer

1

  1. life partners
  2. bad – going through rough patch

2

  1. neighbours
  2. good – keeping an eye / caring

3

  1. pupil – teacher (teenager / interest in science)
  2. good – sparked my interest

4

  1. colleagues–collaborated/projects
  2. good – taught me a lot

5

  1. colleagues–inmeetings
  2. bad – not on speaking terms / awkward

6

  1. doctor – patient (go and see him / professional not usually on first name terms)
  2. good (first name terms)

7

  1. colleagues–professional
  2. bad – don’t see eye to eye / disagree (but good in that it stays professional)

8

  1. parent – child (competing for my attention)
  2. bad – get on each other’s nerves

9

  1. doctor – patient (reassures them of the whole process)
  2. good – puts them at their ease

10

  1. parent – child, teacher – student, coach – athlete
  2. depends on your point of view (bad – causes stress / good – stretches and improves)

11

  1. neighbours – don’t know them (possibly colleagues)
  2. not that good, but not bad (keep ourselves to ourselves)

12

  1. colleagues / siblings / flatmates
  2. bad – doesn’t pull her weight / friction