The key answer of exercise 5
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7B - A masterpiece? 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
- Read the first paragraph of an article about a TV programme. Explain why each programme might end in joy or disappointment.
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- Listen to the end of the documentary and answer the questions.
- Listen to five extracts from the documentary and complete some idiomatic expressions that Jon uses. With a partner, say what you think they mean from the context.
Answer
a)
The programme ends in joy if the masterpiece is genuine and in disappointment if it is a fake.
e)
- That the painting was by Lucian Freud
- Because of his bad relationship with Denis
- He loves it. It reminds him of Freud's early drawings. He loves the shadows and the exaggerated face.
- No, he has always loved it, whether it was a fake or not. Because he has been given so many different opinions over the years as to whether it's a fake or not, but has always continued to love it whatever people said about it.
- He is going to leave it to be sold after he dies and have the money go towards helping young artists.
f)
- gobsmacked (= so surprised that you do not know what to say)
- swept along (= very interested or involved in sth, especially in a way that makes you forget everything else)
- biting [our] nails (= very nervous)
- fallen over backwards (= fainted)
- clicked (= suddenly became clear)
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