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The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 06 - Reading 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. You are going to read about real-life experiences of a shipwreck and a shark attack.Which experience do you think the phrases in the box below relate to? Write SW (shipwreck) or SA (shark attack).
  2. Work in pairs. Student A: Turn to Page 129 to read 'Shipwrecked'. Then answer the questions about it. Student B: Turn to Page 131 to read 'Attacked by a shark'. Then answer the questions about it.

Answer

a)

  • to bite = SA
  • the crew of a boat = SW
  • a rubber dinghy = SW
  • a flare = SW
  • to feel numb = SA
  • to hold on = SW / SA
  • to let go = SA
  • a life belt = SW
  • to paddle = SA
  • a searchlight = SW
  • a surfboard = SA

b)

Shipwrecked

  1. on a boat tour of the Galapagos Islands
  2. when the boat began rocking violently
  3. that he had to find his wife
  4. by holding on to a life belt and then getting into a rubber dinghy
  5. by using flares to attract the attention of another ship
  6. like it didn't really happen to him, but also has a feeling of good fortune

Attacked by a shark

  1. off the coast of Cape St Francis in South Africa
  2. twice (assumes that when the shark let go and then took another bite, this is part of the first attack)
  3. when the shark went under the water and Dunstan couldn't see where it was
  4. two men on the beach
  5. a week
  6. He appreciates that he's been given a second chance; he's more careful; he gets a strange feeling when the water is the same colour as that day and he is no longer the first person to go into the water.

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