Cover of the textbook Focus 5 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.5 - Listening for the textbook Focus 5 - Student's Book with authors Vaughan Jones and Sue Kay from Pearson Education

Question

Listen to three dialogues about the skatepark and answer the questions.

Answer

  1.  Plans are to replace the current skatepark on the South Bank with a new purpose-built one under the bridge. The current site will be redeveloped into a creative hub with shops, restaurants and projects such as rehearsal studios.
  2.  Dialogue 1: skateboarders, they use the skatepark Dialogue 2: local business people with businesses near the skatepark Dialogue 3: musicians who play and rehearse in the nearby concert hall
  3. Outcome: the skateboarders won and the redevelopment plans did not go ahead.