Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.5 - Lookback for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Correct the expressions for talking about customs. One is already correct.
  2. Discuss in pairs. What job do you think each person is talking about?

Answer

a)

  1. get accustomed to / accustom myself to
  2. was so used to / had got so used to
  3. find the weightlessness completely alien / alienating
  4. ✓
  5. It's a given
  6. the norm is
  7. if you can't get used to

b)

  • deep-sea fishing
  • space station astronaut
  • oil rig worker