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The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.1 - Good fit for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Complete the common collocations with the words / phrases in the box.
  2. Work in pairs. Find three collocations in Exercise 4A that can be used in connection with a) food b) learning English c) discussing an issue. Write full examples.
  3. Work in pairs and complete the collocations. Then discuss the questions.

Answer

a)

  1. trigger
  2. enhance
  3. an aspect of
  4. sustain
  5. deliver
  6. success

b)

  1. food → trigger rapid weight loss, enhance your capacity to (e.g. function on fewer calories, eat healthily), ignore an aspect of (e.g. nutritional science), sustain long-term motivation (to stick to a diet)
  2. learning English → sustain long-term motivation (to study) / sustain Interest in (English), deliver a host of benefits / tangible results (for example, meeting people on holiday), enhance your capacity to (get work / meet people, etc.)
  3. discussing an issue → ignore / consider / discuss an aspect of (the issue), deliver a solution (to a problem)

c)

  1. long-term motivation / interest
  2. memory
  3. consider
  4. your capacity to
  5. success
  6. deliver