Homework - Language and Culture

Unit 90 EXERCISES
90.1 pleased: 1, 3, 8

Displeased: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7

90.2 1. It’s no fun spending time with Jez and Sal as they only have eyes for each other.

2. Try to solve these problems by using your grey matter.

3. Most parents weren’t born yesterday, they have a good idea of what their kids get up to

4. Maggie could talk the hind legs off a donkey.

5. Mary’s on cloud nine now she’s at university.

6. They are head over heels in love.

7. I haven’t the foggiest idea what we should do about this letter.

8. Gilly has a soft spot for Jim, she’s always talking about him.

9. Ruth and Paul raved about the play.

90.3 1. Dreams

2. To

3. Fire

4. Soft

5. Mine

6. Element

7. What

8. Planks

9. Top

10. Clue

11. Heels

12. Back
 13. Nose

14. All

15. Nothing

16. Dumps

17. Seventh

90.4 1. B 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. C 6. B

90.5 1. Amanda thinks the world of her father.

2. When I met my penfriend, we immediately hit it off.

3. I wanted to keep the present a secret but my little boy let the cat out of the box.

4. Why have the children been looking as miserable as sin all evening?

5. If you come round this evening I’ll put you in the picture.

6. I’ve been walking on air ever since I heard your good news!

Unit 91

91.1 1. You might be pleased to be called “very much your own person”

2. You would almost certainly not want to be called ‘a soft touch”

91.2 1. Went ballistic

2. are full of beans

3. was at a loss of words

4. at sea

5. was dead on my feet

6. driving me round the bend

7. wanted to curl up and die

8. put a brave face on it

9. turns my stomach

10. at the end of my tether

91.3 1. Rub 2. Loggerheads 3. Snake 4. Benefit

91.4 1. Aunt Vicky is a soft touch.

2. Mike is a dark horse.

3. Maria’s a snake in the grass.

4. He or she is full of beans.

5. She was at a loss of words.

6. I was all at sea.

7. Helena’s in a world of her own.

91.5 1. A rope attached to an animal, keeping it within a fixed piece of land

2. To go into a small ball

3. A small safety part in an electrical device which causes it to stop working if the electricity
is too powerful

4. A valuable stone

5. Used to refer to a weapon that is shot through the air