Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.2 - In other words for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
  2. -
  3. Predict the missing words in 1-8. Then listen again and check.

Answer

a)

Problems

  1. speaker taps microphone - can cause interpreter pain / serious injury / hearing loss
  2. speaker is not good at the language and impossible to follow
  3. the speaker speaks too fast
  4. humour doesn't easily translate / travel well
  5. references are unfamiliar to audience

Solutions

  1. educate / shock the speaker and the organisation
  2. ask for the speech in advance
  3. summarise what they say
  4. tell audience speaker has made an untranslatable joke and ask them to laugh
  5. suggest speaker finds references the audience will understand

c)

  1. booth
  2. least
  3. case scenario
  4. incompetent
  5. educated guess
  6. fall back
  7. steer clear
  8. mutual