The key answer of exercise 3
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.3 - Sharing economy? for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education
Question
- Complete the phrases by writing one word in each gap. Then listen and check your ideas.
- Put the phrases from a)-h) under the correct headings.
Answer
a)
- whole
- cite; tended
- impression
- presumably
- illustration
- Generally
- consensus
- speculate
b)
Generalising
- On the whole tended (to be ...)
- Generally speaking though
Exemplifying
- To cite one example
- Another illustration of this is
Hedging / Speculation
- Our impression was simply that
- (their interest) presumably (reflected ...)
- One might speculate that
- *The consensus seems to be that
- (*the use of 'seems' puts this expression here. If it were 'the consensus is that ...' it would be under Generalising)
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