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

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8B - A house with a history 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. Kim and Leo are a young couple from the USA. They want to rent the house in 1. Cover the conversation and listen. Which three rooms in the house do they go into?
  2. Listen again and complete the conversation.
  3. Listen. What does Kim say about one of the bedrooms? Whose bedroom was it? Do they decide to rent the house?
  4. Kim and Leo go to the local pub. Listen and complete extracts 1-6 from their conversation. What do you think they find out?
  5. Now listen to the whole conversation. What do Kim and Leo decide to do in the end? Why?

Answer

a)

They go into the living room, the library, and the kitchen.

b)

  1. garage
  2. living room
  3. fireplace
  4. kitchen
  5. bathroom
  6. downstairs
  7. neighbours
  8. upstairs

c)

  • She says the bedroom is cold.
  • It was Barbara’s father’s bedroom (Jeremy Travers).
  • Yes, they do.

d)

  1. house
  2. wrong
  3. thought
  4. tell
  5. what
  6. horrible

e)

  • They decide not to rent the house.
  • They don’t want to live in a house where somebody was murdered.