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

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5 - A bit extreme for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Discuss which of the problems you think is worse in each case.

Answer

  1. He broke his leg (explain that bruises are blue and yellow – you get one if you hit your knee; make a cracking noise to show break a leg)
  2. I tore my knee ligaments (footballers tear ligaments – which are on the sides of your knee – when they twist the knee in a tackle)
  3. She knocked herself out (mime banging your head but staying conscious, and banging your head and knocking yourself out)
  4. I broke my ankle (show a twisting movement in your ankle and make a cracking noise to show break – if footballers twist their ankle, they can’t play for a month, but if they break it, it’s the end of the season)
  5. She drowned (lose consciousness = be knocked out; drowned means she died in the water)
  6. He was killed (mime losing an arm)