Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6 - Souvenir shop for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Discuss which speakers had these souvenirs, where each souvenir was from and how the speakers described them. Listen again and check your ideas.

Answer

  • an apron - speaker 3 – a present from a friend who had visited Lithuania; it’s beautiful, hand-woven, has a lovely, stripy pattern
  • a drink - speaker 1 – brought it back from Malta; it was made from prickly pears and was lovely – they finished it in about two days
  • a model - speaker 2 – it’s a plastic model of the Eiffel Tower; a present from one of his wife’s students
  • pannetone - speaker 1 – a present from an Italian neighbour; it was delicious
  • a paperweight - speaker 4 – bought it as a souvenir in Athens; it had an image of the Parthenon inside
  • a tie - speaker 2 – from one of his wife’s students; it had a picture of the Great Wall of China printed on it; it was horrible and bright