The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.2 - Fired! for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education
Question
Work in pairs. Look at the underlined words or phrases in the article on this page and one page 130 and match them with these definitions.
Correct one error in each option. One item is correct.
Answer
a)
to come clean (about)
to make candid comments (about)
to overstate
to present an accurate picture (of)
to catch someone red-handed
to lose face
to gloss over
to show your true colours
b)
a) overdo → overstate ; b) photo → picture ; c) lose your face → lose face
a) candied → candid ; b) paint → gloss ; c) collars → colours
a) clear → clean ; b) red-footed → red-handed ; c) → ✓