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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.1 - Out of time for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Work in pairs and check what you know. What’s the literal (or basic) meaning of the words in the box? Which can be used with a drink, a phone, an old clock or someone's face?
  2. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the one of the verbs in the box above.
  3. Work in pairs. All the verbs above have another informal or idiomatic meaning. Which verbs do you think mean.
  4. Completely the sentences with the correct form of one of the verbs in Exercise 2C.

Answer

a)

  • wind up an old clock
  • switch off a phone
  • focus on someone’s face
  • recharge a phone
  • chill a drink

b)

  1. recharge
  2. wind up
  3. switch off
  4. Chill
  5. focus; on

c)

  1. chill
  2. focus on
  3. recharge
  4. wind up
  5. switch off

d)

  1. switch off
  2. winds; up
  3. recharge
  4. chill (out)
  5. focus on

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