Cover of the textbook Roadmap B1+ - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Listening 8 for the textbook Roadmap B1+ - Workbook with authors Anna Osborn and Rebecca Adlard from Pearson Education

Question

Listen again and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. Because her mother is English, her father is Spanish and she grew up in Italy, so they spoke all three language at home.
  2. Because she grew up surrounded by books in her house.
  3. To see if she could write a good book and get it published.
  4. Because they were frightened to publish a book by a new author.
  5. Because she is grateful that they took a chance on her with her first book.
  6. Because she was busy with her two young children.
  7. Because her experiences helped her to grow up during her thirties. Her father died, she and her husband got divorced and she was alone with two children.
  8. Because work was going well, she was happy in a new relationship and her children were enjoying school. ( She realised it was going to be OK.)