Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 05 - Listening and speaking for the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen again and decide if the questions describe Gavin (G), Molly (M) or Delmar (D). Who.
  2. What details do they give about these things?

Answer

a)

  1. D
  2. G
  3. M
  4. M, D
  5. D
  6. M
  7. G
  8. D
  9. G
  10. D

b)

  1. Delmar worked in banking for five years until his job was cut after a merger.
  2. Gavin mainly uses the internet to promote himself. but he also checks job websites every day.
  3. Molly found that you can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience without a job.
  4. Molly offered to work for free for a few months to get experience and she is now doing that part-time. Delmar is working as a volunteer for a wildlife conservation project.
  5. Delmar got a nasty shock when he was told that his job didn't exist anymore.
  6. Molly is optimistic that the company she is working for will offer her a permanent job soon because they seem to like her and what she's doing.
  7. Gavin is advertising his skills online by setting up a website with examples of what he can do and he also has a blog.
  8. Delmar is working for a wildlife conservation charity in Africa.
  9. Gavin is using social networking sites like Twitter to tell his online contacts that he's looking for work.
  10. Delmar is fulfilling his dream to spend time in the African wilderness.