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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.2 - Feeling inspired for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. -
  2. Look at the list of common collocations below. Does it include the phrases on your list? Can you think of other ways to express the phrases in bold?
  3. Answer the questions.

Answer

b)

  1. having new / original ideas
  2. considering the idea (but not in a very serious way)
  3. was your inspiration
  4. I had the idea
  5. quickly come up with as many ideas as possible (good and bad) without rejecting any
  6. suddenly had the idea
  7. good idea (ironic, Le. it was a bad idea)
  8. have new ideas (that other people haven't thought of)
  9. We thought it was a good idea, but it wasn't.
  10. bad / laughable idea

c)

  1. 7
  2. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8
  3. 2
  4. 7, 9, 10