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

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5B - A quiet life? for the textbook English File Elementary - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Jerry Lambert from Oxford University Press

Question

Read part of a UK online forum. Guess the meaning of the highlighted verbs and verb phrases. Then listen to eight sounds and write 1-8 in the boxes.

Answer

  1. The couple next door argue a lot.
  2. The neighbours’ dog barks all day – and all night!
  3. The baby in the flat upstairs cries all the time.
  4. The old people in the flat next door have the TV on very loud – and their living room is next to my bedroom!
  5. The people next door have builders who make a lot of noise.
  6. The people next door often have noisy parties until 3.00 a.m.
  7. My sister practises the piano for hours.
  8. My son plays loud music in his room – awful music, too.