Cover of the textbook English File Elementary - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 11A - Culture shock for the textbook English File Elementary - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Jerry Lambert from Oxford University Press

Question

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  2. Read some posts on a forum. Which topic don’t they mention?
  3. Read the posts again. Match sentences 1-9 to the people who said them, L (Lena) , R (Rahim), N (Natasha), T (Tara), or J (Julie).
  4. -
  5. Learn these words and phrases related to money. What do they mean? How do you pronounce them?

Answer

b)

exercise

c)

  1. J
  2. L
  3. N
  4. R
  5. L
  6. N
  7. T
  8. N
  9. T

e)

  • salary – the money that you get from your job
  • insurance – something that you buy to protect yourself if you have an accident, need an operation, etc.
  • tip – extra money that you give to a taxi driver, a waiter, etc.
  • earn money – get money from your job
  • pay bills – pay for electricity, gas, phone, etc.