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Answer for exercise 2

The solution for exercise 2 in chapter 8B - A house with a history of English File Elementary - Student's Book by Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Jerry Lambert

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.
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More exercises in 8B - A house with a history
Exercise 1
Exercise 3
Exercise 4