Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4 - Hidden talent for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in groups. Rank the problems from Exercise 5 from 1 (= most serious) to 8 (= least serious). Explain your decisions.

Answer

  1. a really bad knee injury – never recovered
  2. broke my leg
  3. injured my back (context suggests not seriously)
  4. pulled a muscle
  5. banged my head (but not injured)
  6. lost confidence (not physically hurt, but students  may argue this to be more serious)
  7. legs are stiff
  8. unfit