Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.1 - Trailblazer for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the profiles of three trailblazers. what motivated each person? In what way has each one had an impact?
  2. Complete the profiles with prepositions.
  3. Check what you remember. Cover the profiles and answer the questions. Use the noun in brackets and a suitable preposition.
  4. Check your answers in the profiles. Underline the nouns and circle the prepositions.

Answer

a)

  • Mariéme Jamme → recognising through the horrors of her childhood just how important an education is; enabling girls to study in a range of fields.
  • Jadav Payeng → seeing the devastation of deforestation on Majuli Island; he's planted trees that amount to a forest and support wildlife.
  • Michelle Payne → childhood passion for horseriding; her success in a male-dominated sport has inspired women (and probably men).

b)

  1. of
  2. for
  3. of
  4. in
  5. for
  6. of
  7. of
  8. of
  9. for
  10. of
  11. in
  12. of

c)

  1. Because she saw the necessity of getting an education.
  2. Because she had a talent for generating sales in the tech industry.
  3. She did it with the aim of supporting girls in STEAMD.
  4. For her success in achieving so much.
  5. It was the motivation for him to start the project / devote his life to planting trees.
  6. In the course of taking part in a government tree-planting scheme.
  7. He did it in the hope of creating a forest capable of supporting the wildlife that once lived there,
  8. As a consequence of his work.
  9. She had a passion for it / riding.
  10. The risks of riding.
  11. Yes. She had no hesitation in talking about it.
  12. Yes, the implications of a woman winning are / were huge / cannot be underestimated.

d)

Nouns are underlined and prepositions are circled.

  1. necessity of
  2. talent for
  3. aim of
  4. success in
  5. motivation for
  6. course of
  7. hope of
  8. consequence of
  9. passion for
  10. risks of
  11. hesitation in
  12. implications of