Cover of the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 11 - Animal magic for the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Discuss what you think the words in bold in the stories mean.

Answer

  • big day → important day (here, wedding day)
  • a net → a thing used to catch fish which is made from string or rope knotted together 
  • insist on → do something even if everyone asks you not to, or says it’s a bad idea
  • a cage → a thing made of metal bars and used to keep a bird or small animal inside so that it can’t get out
  • train somebody to do something → teach somebody to do something by repeated practice
  • sense of smell → ability to smell through your nose 
  • detect → find something using different senses
  • boost → improve or increase
  • investigation → the process of finding out what happened, e.g. after a crime
  • main suspect → the person police think did the crime

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