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Wait or Expect Practice | Interactive English Vocabulary Exercise
Wait or expect practice for English learners. This interactive vocabulary exercise helps B1 students understand the difference between wait, meaning to stay somewhere or delay action until something happens, and expect, meaning to think that something will happen or believe that someone should do something. The activity includes wait for, wait a minute, can't wait to, have been waiting, expect someone to do something and expect something to happen.

Choose the correct option: WAIT or EXPECT.

1. You can’t WAIT FOR / EXPECT me to give up my window seat just because you forgot to book seats together.

2. The mother with a crying toddler didn’t want to WAIT / EXPECT in the boarding line with everyone else.

3. She is a strict vegan, so she didn’t WAIT FOR / EXPECT her husband to sneak chicken broth into her dinner.

4. Can you WAIT / EXPECT a minute before taking my plate away? I haven’t finished eating yet.

5. The passenger was so rude that the flight attendant asked him to EXPECT / WAIT by the door until security arrived.

6. If the airline promises a special vegan meal, you EXPECT / WAIT FOR it to be vegan.

7. I can’t EXPECT / WAIT to move out of this house after what my husband did to my food.

8. He secretly fed her meat for six months and now he doesn’t understand why she CAN’T WAIT TO / EXPECTS TO divorce him.

9. Passengers have been EXPECTING / WAITING at the gate for two hours because the plane is delayed.

10. You can’t EXPECT / WAIT FOR people to be polite to you when you demand their assigned seats.