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Answer — Exercise 3

10 - A change of plan·Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

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

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