
Answer — Exercise 7
11 - Animal magic·Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book
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