Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.2 - Switching off for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

Listen to the answer to Exercise 2. Where is the stress on the idioms? Is it on the verb or on another word e.g. noun / adjective?

Answer

The underlined words are stressed:

  1. have a breather
  2. let your hair down
  3. take time out from
  4. take my mind off
  5. switch off
  6. unwind