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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

  1. Read the first paragraph of an article about a TV programme. Explain why each programme might end in joy or disappointment.
  2. -
  3. -
  4. -
  5. Listen to the end of the documentary and answer the questions.
  6. 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)

  1. That the painting was by Lucian Freud
  2. Because of his bad relationship with Denis
  3. He loves it. It reminds him of Freud's early drawings. He loves the shadows and the exaggerated face.
  4. 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.
  5. He is going to leave it to be sold after he dies and have the money go towards helping young artists.

f)

  1. gobsmacked (= so surprised that you do not know what to say)
  2. swept along (= very interested or involved in sth, especially in a way that makes you forget everything else)
  3. biting [our] nails (= very nervous)
  4. fallen over backwards (= fainted)
  5. clicked (= suddenly became clear)

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