Reading comprehension – Matching exercise
Read the article ‘Words, Words’ about expressions related to fishermen and fishing on pages 18-19 of English Now No. 122. Then try to match the sentences on the left with the pictures on the right.
What part of that story is relevant? What’s it got to do with the price of fish? I can’t settle in this town. I feel like a fish out of water. I fell for his lies hook, line and sinker. I can’t go on holidays this summer, I have bigger fish to fry. My grandfather was a sailor all his life. He was a real old sea dog. Sailors don’t usually get sick. They have found their sea legs We can’t go abroad on holiday this year. That idea is dead in the water. | | |
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