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

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 02 - Preparation for the textbook Cutting Edge Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Araminta Crace from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to Helen and Mark talking about the first time they did something. Which of the important firsts in exercise la do they talk about?
  2. Listen again. For each story write down the answers to questions 1-4.

Answer

a)

  • Mark - the first time he went abroad.
  • Helen - the last time she felt really scared.

b)

Mark

  1. in France, as a child aged six or seven
  2. his mum, dad and brother
  3. He felt very excited because it was his first time on a boat.
  4. He didn't think it was very interesting when he got there. He felt really embarrassed because his father tried to speak French in the restaurant and they just couldn't understand him.

Helen

  1. in a field, about five years ago when she was 17.
  2. She was with her best friend, Jenny.
  3. She felt scared.
  4. They went into the field. Then the horse came up to them and looked really angry. She was really scared but the horse came closer and closer. In the end, they got out of the field.