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Answer for exercise 3

The solution for exercise 3 in chapter 6.3 - Faux pas of Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book by Frances Eales and Steve Oakes

Question

  1. -
  2. You're going to listen to two people talk about a faux pas they made while abroad. Listen to the conversations and answer the questions.
  3. Work in pairs and complete the sentences with exactly three words using a form of the word in brackets. Listen again and check your ideas.

Answer

b)

Speaker 1

  1. Egypt
  2. she complimented someone on jewellery and they gave it to her
  3. guilty
  4. sympathetic, but also questioning whether the information she'd been given was really the case

Speaker 2

  1. 1 Japan
  2. he didn't stand up or leave the room first so the students had to wait
  3. awkward and mystified (later on, bad and foolish)
  4. curious but also sceptical as to whether this is really the case in Japan

c)

  1. norm is to
  2. 'm accustomed to
  3. get used to
  4. things completely alien
  5. 'm used to
  6. given that they
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More exercises in 6.3 - Faux pas
Exercise 2
Exercise 5