Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

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

  1. Complete the sentences using a suitable collocation.
  2. Work in pairs, Student A and Student B. Write down as many collocations as possible for the words in the box.

Answer

a)

  1. vain
  2. alarm
  3. presumed
  4. shift
  5. asthma
  6. 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