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The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8C - Room 333 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. -
  2. Read the newspaper article about The Langham, a hotel in London. with a partner, answer questions 1-5.
  3. Listen to two guests at the hotel. Did they see a ghost?
  4. Listen again. Who did these things happen to? Tick (✓) the correct column(s).
  5. Complete the sentences from the article and the listening. What do the verb phrases mean?

Answer

b)

  1. The Duke of Windsor, Napoleon III, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle
  2. GoldenEye
  3. The ghost of a Victorian doctor who murdered his wife
  4. A ghost moves the bed.
  5. He was in the hotel and couldn’t sleep because the bathroom taps turned on and off.

c)

No, but they both heard strange noises.

d)

  1. W
  2. M / W
  3. M / W
  4. M
  5. W
  6. M
  7. W
  8. W

e)

  • got up - got out of bed
  • turned on / off - opened / connected
  • woke up - opened your eyes after sleeping
  • went back - returned, do sth again
  • checked out - paid your bill and left