Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10 - A change of plan for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. What are the opposites of the words and phrases in bold in Exercise 2?

Answer

  • weird – normal / ordinary / conventional 
  • overrated – underrated (or just good!)
  • moving – funny
  • It was completely sold out. – There weren’t many there. / It was (half) empty.
  • the headline band – the support band / the first band (on)
  • boiling hot – freezing cold
  • amazing – dreadful / awful
  • great atmosphere – it was dead / dull; there was no / an awful atmosphere
  • wasn’t as great as – wasn’t as awful as / was better than
  • absolutely packed – absolutely deserted / empty
  • in tears – laughing / in stitches
  • I felt a bit out of place – I felt (right) at home / very comfortable there
  • left halfway through – stayed till the end