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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.1 - Ready or not for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to the conversations. What is the responder's job in each case?
  2. Listen again and write the response in each conversation. Then circle the modal verb in each case.
  3. Match the modal verbs in Exercise 3B with the meaning below.

Answer

a)

  1. check-in agent at airport
  2. IT support
  3. teacher
  4. supermarket assistant
  5. politician
  6. vet
  7. car mechanic

b)

  1. Flight delays, angry passengers. I can't think straight.
  2. You needn't bother. I've already done it.
  3. That must have been annoying.
  4. Anna again! I might have guessed!
  5. Sorry, I've got to go now.
  6. You might as well come in.
  7. It may not be ready. Give me a call first thing.

c)

  1. A
  2. N
  3. C
  4. C (one might put P for probability, but the speaker is expressing certainty in the context)
  5. O
  6. PP
  7. P