Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.3 - Looking back for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Listen again and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. He found it difficult to get on with other children because they knew each other and had already formed small groups of friends, and he felt 'out of it'.
  2. He learnt to become very outgoing, energetic and entertaining in order to make new friends.
  3. Central Manchester.
  4. The weather (the rain, and the wind and the snow'), the cars ('traffic roaring by'), the clothes ('little shorts and T-shirts... looking like complete idiots")
  5. No. She is not sporty ('not really a sporty kind of girl'), and she hates running ('1 still hate sports, and running is just one of the sports I hate the most I think')
  6. She talks about the hot temperatures when they got off the plane (the 'wall of heat'), the smell of the air (a 'fantastic smell'), and the colour of the pool ('I remember how blue the pool was").
  7. The breakfasts took a long time ("breakfasts that went on forever")
  8. He used to climb over his parents' garden fence.
  9. It made him feel happy, and free. He says 'It was just a great sense of freedom, that you should really have when you're a child'.