Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3 - A United Kingdom? for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Discuss what it could be in each of the sentences in Exercise 5.

Answer

  1. winning an award / diploma, etc.; winning a sporting competition; performing a heroic act like saving someone from a river
  2. smoking indoors / belching at the end of a meal / chewing loudly (in the UK)
  3. going to a posh restaurant / travelling round the world (something expensive and / or difficult)
  4. having a holiday / getting married (something pleasurable you might do usually which you can’t afford to do time-wise or for other reasons)
  5. exercises / have a shower / go for a run / meditate
  6. sitting on a beach / a bracing walk in the country
  7. life / marriage / helping people out
  8. an affair / a baby / getting into debt