Cover of the textbook On Screen B1+ - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5d - Listening skills for the textbook On Screen B1+ - Student's Book with authors Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley from Express Publishing

Question

  1. You will hear a discussion on a radio show. Before you listen, check these words / phrases in the Word List.
  2. Listen to the discussion and for questions 1-5, choose the correct answer A, B or C. Is it formal or informal?

Answer

  1. heavy traffic: lots of cars on the road; cycle lanes: special part of the road for bicycles; exhaust fumes: the gases that come out of the exhaust pipe of a vehicle; traffic jams: cars stuck in traffic; public transport: buses, trains and other transport services for the public to use; narrow streets: roads that are not wide; illegal parking: leaving a car somewhere where it is against the law; dangerous drivers: drivers who may cause an accident; traffic warden: somebody whose job is to make sure cars don't park illegally; patrol: to move around an area to check everything; fine: a punishment when somebody has to pay money; enforce the law: to make sure people obey the law; pedestrians: people on foot; swerve: change direction to avoid hitting something
  2. 1) C; 2) C; 3) B; 4) A; 5) B; It is formal (full verb forms; more advanced vocabulary, etc)