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The key answer of exercise 2

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

  1. Look at the picture of the house and listen. Why are Max and his mother unhappy?
  2. Listen again and complete the conversations with verbs from the list.
  3. Listen. What happens when Paul goes next door?
  4. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb be.
  5. Read the rule and circle the correct option.
  6. -
  7. Listen to the sounds. What's happening? Write eight sentences.

Answer

a)

  • Max is unhappy because he can’t study. His family are making a lot of noise.
  • His mother is unhappy because of the noise from the neighbours’, and their dog.

b)

  1. trying
  2. making
  3. practising
  4. playing
  5. cooking
  6. listening
  7. happening
  8. barking
  9. having

c)

The neighbours invite him to the party and offer him a drink.

d)

  •  They’re / are having a party next door.
  • Are they playing music?
  • No, they aren’t playing music. They’re talking.

e)

now

g)

  1. Somebody's cooking.
  2. Somebody’s sending messages / texting.
  3. Somebody’s having a shower and singing.
  4. It’s raining.
  5. Somebody’s eating spaghetti.
  6. Somebody’s making a coffee.
  7. Somebody’s crying.
  8. Somebody’s doing the housework.

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