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
- splitting up / having an affair (the couple were splitting up because he had had an affair)
- 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)
- stab, victim (someone was stabbed to death in a crowded place in the middle of the day, and the murderer got away)
- resign (the deputy president resigned after being accused of taking illegal payments / corruption)
- sign (Real Madrid want to sign Geraldinho, which means the speakers’ team will lose him)