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

The key answer of exercise 13

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.1 - My community for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to three people and make notes in the table.
  2. Match the speakers (1, 2 or 3) to the things they did (a-j).

Answer

a)

Where did he / she live?

  • Speaker 1 → Canada
  • Speaker 2 → Austria
  • Speaker 3 → Japan

What was he / she doing there?

  • Speaker 1 → starting a packaging business in the publishing industry
  • Speaker 2 → gap year from university, work as a teaching assistant
  • Speaker 3 → English-language teacher

What did he / she like about the host country?

  • Speaker 1 → beautiful city, beaches, mountains, etc, food, friendly people
  • Speaker 2 → long weekends, skiing, ice skating, scenery, people
  • Speaker 3 → the people

Is there anything he / she didn't like, or that was difficult?

  • Speaker 1 → starting a business when Canada's economy wasn't doing well was difficult
  • Speaker 2 → the food - Austrians tend to eat a lot of meat, which was difficult as she is vegetarian
  • Speaker 3 → she couldn't read Japanese so everyday things (like shopping) were an adventure for her

What are his / her favourite memories of the country?

  • Speaker 1 → the open spaces, vastness and the friendly people
  • Speaker 2 → scenery, going off into the mountains after school, skiing or swimming in the lakes
  • Speaker 3 → the people and learning about Japanese customs and culture

b)

  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 1
  4. 3
  5. 2
  6. 3
  7. 1
  8. 2
  9. 3
  10. 1