Cover of the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.5 - Lookback for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Complete the conversations with words and phrases from the box. Not items are needed.
  2. Work in pairs and add very, really, absolutely, totally, completely before the adjectives and adjective phrases (but not the verb phrases) in Exercise 3A. Then practise the conversation.

Answer

a)

  1. over the moon
  2. relieved
  3. shaking like a leaf
  4. awkward
  5. wished the earth would swallow me up
  6. impressed

b)

  1. really / absolutely / totally / completely
  2. very / really
  3. no modifier (it’s a verb phrase)
  4. very / really
  5. no modifier (it’s a verb phrase)
  6. very / really