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Answer — Exercise 10

3.1 - Your place or mine?·New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book

Question

  1. Listen to interviews with Miriam and Jeremy and check your ideas for exercise 9.
  2. Listen again and make notes. List four problems Miriam and Jeremy each had.
  3. Listen to Miriam phoning the company to complain. Answer the questions.

Answer

a)

  • Top left picture → The house was old and dark.
  • Top right picture → The shower didn’t work.
  • Bottom left picture → The flat was too small so they had big arguments.
  • Bottom right picture → There was a bar downstairs which played loud music until 4:00 a.m.

b)

  • Miriam → the house was in the middle of nowhere, it was old and dark, nothing worked properly: the heating didn’t work and there was no hot water
  • Jeremy → the flat was too small, it was too hot (no fan), mosquitoes stopped them sleeping, a bar downstairs played music all night

c)

  1. over two hours
  2. disgusting (dirty) and small
  3. the cleaner was ill
  4. sheets and towels because there weren’t any clean ones
  5. switched off
  6. £100
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More exercises in 3.1 - Your place or mine?

Ex. 2
Ex. 3
Ex. 4
Ex. 5
Ex. 6