Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.5 - Lookback for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Rewrite each sentence so that it means the same using the word in brackets.
  2. Work in pairs. What place or job do you think each sentence is about?

Answer

a)

  1. The crew is / are obliged to seal the exits first ('is' Is more 'correct but 'are' is used equally often).
  2. It's everyone's responsibility to have memorised every word they're going to say.
  3. Someone will probably be in pain.
  4. The flames and smoke must be frightening.
  5. There's an expectation that every aspect of service is perfect. / The expectation is that every aspect of service is perfect.
  6. The capacity to work in high places without getting vertigo is important.
  7. It's imaginable that the staff will know more about the subject than the painters themselves.
  8. Most people there will undoubtedly find the motion difficult during a storm.

b)

  1. a ship / a ferry / an aeroplane
  2. theatre, actors
  3. ambulance / hospital, paramedics / doctors / nurses
  4. firefighters
  5. (five star) hotel or restaurant and employees therein, e.g. waiters
  6. builders or window cleaners or painters of high buildings
  7. art gallery / museum
  8. a cruise ship