Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 7

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

Listen to the phrases from Exercise 5 and notice which sounds are stressed. Then listen again and repeat the phrases.

Answer

  1. It’s really no big thing.
  2. It’s just not the done thing.
  3. chance would be a fine thing
  4. It’s the furthest thing from my mind.
  5. first thing in the morning
  6. It’s the sort of thing that makes you glad to be alive.
  7. what with one thing and another
  8. one thing just led to another