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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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  2. Listen to an audio guide from the exhibition. For each photo, write.
  3. Listen again and answer the questions with the name of one or more people in the photos.
  4. 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)

  1. Tolstoy and his wife (Sofia); Picasso and his partner (Françoise Gilot)
  2. Tolstoy and his grandchildren; Gandhi and his wife (Kasturba); Einstein and his sister (Maja)
  3. John Kennedy (assassinated); John Junior (plane crash); Anastasia and her sisters (assassinated)
  4. Caroline Kennedy
  5. Anastasia

d)

  1. Anastasia; conclusively disproved = completely and finally proved wrong
  2. John Junior / the Kennedy family (The as refers to John Junior, the this refers to the family); ill-fated family = unlucky family
  3. Picasso's partner Françoise Gilot, and Picasso; a damning description = a very critical and negative description
  4. Gandhi and his wife, Kasturba; shared beliefs = things that they both believed
  5. Tolstoy's wife, Sofia; strongly opposed = completely disagreed
  6. Tolstoy; in the dead of night = in the middle of the night
  7. Einstein's sister, Maja; sought refuge = she went to the USA to be safe