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

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 01 - Speaking and listening for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to six speakers. Which item from exercise 1a does each speaker talk about?
  2. Listen again. Which speaker mentions the topics in the box? What do they say about them?

Answer

a)

  1. A
  2. F
  3. C
  4. B
  5. D
  6. E

b)

  • a farm: Speaker 1. He used to go to his aunt and uncle's farm every summer. It was a really special place for him and he loved it.
  • a coincidence: Speaker 5. She has recently met a woman called Emma, like herself. Emma's husband is called John or Johnny, just like her husband. It gets confusing when they all go out together.
  • a baby: Speaker 6. This is the baby his cousin and his wife had three weeks earlier. He can't remember the baby's name, but it looks sweet in the photo on Facebook.
  • a pond: Speaker 4. The house where he was born had a pond at the bottom of the garden. He used to spend hours looking at the fish. The pond was probably dangerous, but nobody worried about it.
  • working on a film: Speaker 2. The work is really interesting, but she has to be there very early and get up at five, which she hates.
  • an awful boss: Speaker 3. This is the horrible woman that she first worked for. She really hated her boss and used to discuss her over coffee with her workmate Kathy.