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The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.2 - Tomorrow's world for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read comments 1-4. Which of the topics in the images are they referring to?
  2. Read the definition of an idiom and underline and underline the idioms in sentences 1-4.
  3. Look at the underlined idioms in Exercise 7A and decide if these statements about idioms are true (T) or false (F)?

Answer

a)

  1. education
  2. politics
  3. health
  4. population

b)

  1. close to my heart
  2. running out of time
  3. hits the nail on the head
  4. let's face it

c)

  1. F
  2. T
  3. T
  4. F