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The key answer of exercise 5

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

Question

Listen again and note down which of the words from Exercise 1 and 2 were used in each conversation. Then work in pairs and summarise each news story.

Answer

  1. splitting up / having an affair (the couple were splitting up because he had had an affair)
  2. gone bankrupt / expand / be taken over (the company was taken over and the new management said the plant was too expensive to run, so they were moving production abroad)
  3. stab, victim (someone was stabbed to death in a crowded place in the middle of the day, and the murderer got away)
  4. resign (the deputy president resigned after being accused of taking illegal payments / corruption)
  5. sign (Real Madrid want to sign Geraldinho, which means the speakers’ team will lose him)

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