Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 9

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.1 - Words of wisdom for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs. Student A: read the paragraph below and underline four metaphors related to ideas. Match them with meanings 1-4. Student B: turn to page 159.

Answer

p22

  1. regurgitate
  2. hard to swallow
  3. half-baked (idea)
  4. food for thought

p159

  1. put aside some time
  2. wasting precious time
  3. can't afford to spend time
  4. live on borrowed time