Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1 - Putting your words to work for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Listen again and complete the sentences with three words in each space. Contractions count as one word.

Answer

1

  1. came up to (= a phrasal verb meaning approached)
  2. didn’t catch anything (I didn’t catch a word means I didn’t hear and / or understand what people were saying)
  3. with a mixture (note the linking and weak stress of the word of here, and in the phrases in 3 a, b and c)

2

  1. cabin cleaner
  2. which I find
  3. saved them arguing (an idiomatic way of saying stopped them from arguing)

3

  1. in search of
  2. the support of
  3. the middle of