Answer for exercise 5
The solution for exercise 5 in chapter 06 - Reading and speaking of Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book by Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave
Question
- 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).
- 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
- on a boat tour of the Galapagos Islands
- when the boat began rocking violently
- that he had to find his wife
- by holding on to a life belt and then getting into a rubber dinghy
- by using flares to attract the attention of another ship
- like it didn't really happen to him, but also has a feeling of good fortune
Attacked by a shark
- off the coast of Cape St Francis in South Africa
- twice (assumes that when the shark let go and then took another bite, this is part of the first attack)
- when the shark went under the water and Dunstan couldn't see where it was
- two men on the beach
- a week
- 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.