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

Answer for exercise 5

The solution for exercise 5 in chapter 6 - Going places of Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book by Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley

Question

Listen again. Complete the phrases with three words in each space.

Answer

  1. is held on (if you hold a festival or a party, it means you organise it)
  2. absolutely poured down (to pour down means to rain very heavily)
  3. put us up (= allowed us to stay in their house overnight)
  4. in spite of
  5. Wasn’t it 
  6. at that sunset (= the change in colours in the sky when the sun goes down)
  7. considering how cheap (considering = when you consider or think about)
  8. worth doing once (if something is worth doing then it is a good thing to do – so, going to new York is worth doing because it’s an exciting city)