The key answer of exercise 8
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 groups. In the listening in Exercise 2, you also heard the phrase die laughing. Think of five more phrases using either the word die or the word laugh. W rite example sentences to show how they’re used. Use a dictionary to help you if you need to.
Answer
- die happy / rich / young
- die of thirst / boredom
- die a death (e.g. The show died a death = it failed)
- I nearly died (= I was very embarrassed)
- I’d rather die first than talk to him (= I refuse to do something)
- Never say die (= never stop trying)
- burst out laughing
- don’t make me laugh
- laugh all the way to the bank
- it’s no laughing matter (= it’s serious)
- it’s good for a laugh
- we did it for a laugh (= just for fun)
- laugh at somebody