Answer — Exercise 6
10.3 - On your left ...·Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book
Question
- Look at the extracts and underline five phrases for expressing estimates (when we don’t know the exact number).
- Which phrases in Exercise 6A could be replaced by 1) fewer than, 2) more than or 3) about / around / approximately?
- Listen and tick the exact number.
Answer
a)
- just under
- roughly; or so
- somewhere in the region of
- upwards of
b)
- fewer than - just under
- more than - upwards of
- about / around / approximately - roughly, or so, somewhere in the region of
c)
- b
- b
- a
- a
- a
- b