The key answer of exercise 1.
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1A - We are family for the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Jerry Lambert and Kate Chomacki from Oxford University Press
Question
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- Listen to an audio guide from the exhibition. For each photo, write.
- Listen again and answer the questions with the name of one or more people in the photos.
- Look at some phrases from the audio guide. With a partner, say who they refer to and explain what the bold collocations mean.
Answer
b)
- Photo 1 → Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, with her sisters in 1906
- Photo 2 → John Kennedy, the US President, with his children (John Junior and Caroline) in 1963
- Photo 3 → Pablo Picasso, the artist, with his partner (Françoise Gilot) and their son (Clause) in 1952
- Photo 4 → Mohandas Gandhi, the statesman, with his wife (Kasturba) in 1915
- Photo 5 → Leo Tolstoy, the writer, with his grandchildren (Ilya and Sonia) in 1909
- Photo 6 → Albert Einstein, the scientist, with his sister (Maja) in 1886
c)
- Tolstoy and his wife (Sofia); Picasso and his partner (Françoise Gilot)
- Tolstoy and his grandchildren; Gandhi and his wife (Kasturba); Einstein and his sister (Maja)
- John Kennedy (assassinated); John Junior (plane crash); Anastasia and her sisters (assassinated)
- Caroline Kennedy
- Anastasia
d)
- Anastasia; conclusively disproved = completely and finally proved wrong
- John Junior / the Kennedy family (The as refers to John Junior, the this refers to the family); ill-fated family = unlucky family
- Picasso's partner Françoise Gilot, and Picasso; a damning description = a very critical and negative description
- Gandhi and his wife, Kasturba; shared beliefs = things that they both believed
- Tolstoy's wife, Sofia; strongly opposed = completely disagreed
- Tolstoy; in the dead of night = in the middle of the night
- Einstein's sister, Maja; sought refuge = she went to the USA to be safe
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