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

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 13 - Going through changes for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Which life changing events do you think are described in 1-10 below?

Answer

  1. being convicted of a crime / being found guilty of a crime / getting sent to prison / jail
  2. dropping out – leaving college / university before graduating
  3. a birth / giving birth / having a baby
  4. buying your first property
  5. dying / fighting cancer / being terminally ill
  6. quitting a job and retraining / changing careers
  7. a couple splitting up / breaking up / getting divorced
  8. a couple getting together / two people starting to date / two people starting to go out with each other / a couple start seeing each other
  9. someone (a football coach, perhaps) getting fired / sacked from his job
  10. a wedding / getting married / a wedding ceremony and reception