Cover of the textbook Outcomes Elementary - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 16 - I promise for the textbook Outcomes Elementary - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Decide who is making the promises in each poem - and who to.

Answer

  1. Could be from one partner to another, but more likely to be a parent to a child.
  2. From one partner to another in a relationship – the first has betrayed the other and wants to repair the relationship.
  3. Could be a husband / wife to their partner after they have left or died.
  4. Between two partners in a relationship, or just friends or even people in a business relationship, e.g. customer / client. One has let the other one down, and that person no longer trusts them. They are asking for payment of a debt.