Exam skills - listening part 4 - multiple matching
Source: Practice Test Plus 2, Test 1.
Key vocabulary from exam audio:
Phrasal verbs
Sitting about
Packed into
To look up to someone
To make up for (something else)
To get someone down
To put up with something
To drift into something (a job)
To put something right
Idioms & fixed expressions
Couldn't care less
Always in a rush
Having to do everything by yesterday
Better off (financially)
Grumpy boss
Breathing down your neck
Much to my colleagues' disgust
I.T. skills
A good career move
A win - win situation
At a stretch (= at one time (continuously) plus other meanings - click on the link)
To see the funny side (of a situation)
Light relief
To be on your toes (= alert, ready see definition 16 on the link)
Nothing to write home about (= average, mediocre)
Discorse markers & functional language (e.g. ranking and introducing preferences & opinions)
What thrills me is
It wasn't worth it
But that wasn't the real reason
It wasn't so much _ as_
The trouble with _ is
Homework
Attempt the sentence transformation exercise (Test 1, Paper 1, Part 4). Next week we will talk about strategies to help you with the difficult questions.
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