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

The key answer of exercise 8

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

Question

Work in pairs. Write a possible ending for each sentence in Exercise 7. Compare your ideas with another group.

Answer

  1. they’ve promised huge tax cuts if they win the next election. / they’ve started demonising immigrants again. / they’ve hired some top PR people.
  2. that people are struggling to afford the basics. / that there’ll be riots soon if it goes on like this.
  3. that they’re too tired to have proper relationships. / that they burn out early. / that stress levels and the suicide rate have gone up a lot.
  4. it’s no wonder no-one was prosecuted. / they should hold an enquiry into what went wrong.
  5. that it was basically uninhabitable. / that all the fish in the rivers started dying.
  6. that he was forced to resign. / that it brought the government down.