Cover of the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10 - Putting your foot in it for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Read the article on page 91 and find out what actually happened in each case.

Answer

  1. The writer says this to a woman who was with a colleague of his. Unfortunately, she wasn’t his wife! Tim must have been seeing her without telling her he was married. She got very angry and slapped him across the face. 
  2. The writer was moaning about a tutor to some friends in the canteen, and hadn’t realised the tutor’s daughter was there listening!
  3. Gerald Ratner joked about the poor quality of some of the products his firm sold. When customers heard about these jokes, they were unforgiving. The share price of the firm dropped, Ratner had to resign and the firm ended up being taken over by a rival.
  4. They hadn’t realised the Facebook page was open to the public and 13 of them ended up getting sacked for comments they made online.
  5. The American actor Richard Gere kissed Indian actress Shilpa Shetty on the cheek. In the US, this is normal, but in more culturally conservative India it caused outrage. Gere was threatened with arrest!