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

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 11 - Speaking for the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Watch the video of two conversations about the crime.What's the relationship between the people in each conversation? What does each person think about the crime?
  2. Read the extracts below.Then watch again and number the phrases in the order you hear them.

Answer

a)

Conversation 1

  • husband and wife
  • The husband thinks 25 hours' community service is not enough and he should have been sent to prison.
  • The wife thinks he perhaps needs to be helped, not punished.

Conversation 2

  • shopkeeper and his regular customer
  • The regular customer thinks it is terrible that he only got 25 hours' community service and that he should be sent to prison.
  • The shopkeeper doesn't agree that he should have been sent to prison - He is only 16 and has had a difficult life.

b)

  • Conversation 1 - c, e, f, b, d, a
  • Conversation 2 - b, d, c, a