The key to exercise solutions in chapter Vocabulary 9 for the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Rachael Roberts, Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson from Pearson Education
Question
Listen to an American living and working in the UK. What does she say about the things in the photos?
Listen again and answer the questions.
Answer
a)
car park (UK) → In the US this is called a parking lot.
lift (UK) → In the US this is called an elevator.
chips (UK) → In the US this is called French fries. Chips in the US means crisps in the UK.
b)
Americans tend to be more direct.
She didn’t know that given the sack meant be fired (he had lost his job).
