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The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 08 - Vocabulary and listening for the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to five excerpts from a conversation about the issues in the quiz. Answer the questions.
  2. Listen again.Which answers does each speaker choose? If they give more than one answer, in which situation is each answer true?

Answer

a)

1

  • Florence is a young woman (late teens / twenties).
  • Ruth is much older (seventies).
  • Ruth is Florence's grandmother.

2

  1. 3
  2. 1
  3. 5
  4. 2
  5. 8

b)

  1. Ruth: a; Florence: c
  2. Florence: d, but c (kiss on cheeks) for close female friends; Ruth: b, or a (shake hands) for someone you haven't seen for a long time
  3. Florence: a on a first date, but the woman should offer to pay (b). After that, c if they have the same amount of money, or d if one has more than the other; Ruth: a
  4. Ruth: c; Florence: b
  5. Ruth: d; Florence: c