Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.3 for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Lindsay White from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to the conversation. Are the statements true (T) or false (F)?
  2. Listen again. What exactly do they say? Complete the extracts.
  3. Find examples of vague language in the sentences above and write them under the headings below.

Answer

a)

  1. T
  2. F
  3. F

b)

  1. 6-ish / sixish
  2. couple
  3. stuff
  4. like that
  5. know
  6. anything
  7. thing
  8. stuff

c)

  • vague nouns → (3) I've got plenty of stuff to be getting on with here; (7) Oh, there's one thing I was going to ask.
  • quantifiers → (2) I need to pick up a couple of things ...
  • vague numbers → (1) I'll see you here at about sixish then.
  • generalisers → (5) Do you want me to bring anything, you know, ...
  • list completers → (4) l've just got to finish some work and sort the kitchen out and stuff like that; (6) any kind of food or anything like that?; (8) Are you OK with spicy food? You know, chilli and stuff?