The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.5 - Lookback for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education
Question
Complete the sentences using a suitable collocation.
Work in pairs, Student A and Student B. Write down as many collocations as possible for the words in the box.
Answer
a)
vain
alarm
presumed
shift
asthma
subject
b)
Student A
search to no avail / in vain / frantically / extensively
to launch / (to be) the subject of / to pursue / to lead an investigation
day / night / early / late / split / 10-hour shift
Student B
to set off / to sound / to raise / to trigger the alarm
presumed rightly / wrongly / dead / innocent
to suffer from asthma / migraines / amnesia / hay fever