Answer — Exercise 3
13 - A brand new start·Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book
Question
Work in pairs. Discuss why the numbers and things below were mentioned. Read the article again and check your ideas.
Answer
- Hussain was just sixteen when his family decided to get him out of Afghanistan.
- A family friend paid an organised gang $5,000 to get him to Australia.
- In Jakarta, he had to stay in a tiny one-bedroom flat.
- He spent ten months there.
- He had to share the flat with eight other asylum seekers.
- Four times he set off on a boat from Java but was caught and sent back.
- The journey to Australia took (roughly) three days.
- They squeezed 400 people into the little boat.
- They arrived 80 hours after setting off from Java.
- He was kept in the detention centre for nine months.