Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

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

  1. Complete the phrases by writing one word in each gap. Then listen and check your ideas.
  2. Put the phrases from a)-h) under the correct headings.

Answer

a)

  1. whole
  2. cite; tended
  3. impression
  4. presumably
  5. illustration
  6. Generally
  7. consensus
  8. 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)