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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 13 - A brand new start for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Discuss why the numbers and things below were mentioned. Read the article again and check your ideas.

Answer

  1. Hussain was just sixteen when his family decided to get him out of Afghanistan.
  2. A family friend paid an organised gang $5,000  to get him to Australia.
  3. In Jakarta, he had to stay in a tiny one-bedroom flat.
  4. He spent ten months there.
  5. He had to share the flat with eight other asylum seekers.
  6. Four times he set off on a boat from Java but was caught and sent back.
  7. The journey to Australia took (roughly) three days.
  8. They squeezed 400 people into the little boat.
  9. They arrived 80 hours after setting off from Java.
  10. He was kept in the detention centre for nine months.