Answer — Exercise 8
4 - The state of the nation·Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book
Question
Work in pairs. Write a possible ending for each sentence in Exercise 7. Compare your ideas with another group.
Answer
- 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.
- that people are struggling to afford the basics. / that there’ll be riots soon if it goes on like this.
- 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.
- it’s no wonder no-one was prosecuted. / they should hold an enquiry into what went wrong.
- that it was basically uninhabitable. / that all the fish in the rivers started dying.
- that he was forced to resign. / that it brought the government down.