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Exercise 5.3

Rewrite the headlines in exercise 5.2 using collocations more typical of ordinary conversation, as if you were telling a friend the news. Start each answer with ‘Have you heard …?’ Use a dictionary if necessary.

1. Answer

   Have you heard? The oil companies are bringing down / putting down / lowering / reducing their prices.

2. Answer

   Have you heard? Detectives have interrogated/questioned/interviewed a business man about the missing teenager. or Detectives are interrogating/questioning/interviewing …

3. Answer

   Have you heard? Floods are affecting / there are floods in the Central region.

4. Answer

   Have you heard? The Presco car firm is getting rid of 200 jobs (or staff/people) / is making 200 workers (or staff/people) redundant / is laying off 200 people (or workers/staff).