Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.4 - Francesco's Venice for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to someone talking about a treasure family possession. What is the object? What does she say about the points below?
  2. Listen again and tick the key phrases you hear.

Answer

a)

  • The object is a very old carpet.
  • Background → Her great-grandfather took it from Calcutta to South Africa. The speaker inherited it from her grandmother.
  • Physical description → brightly coloured, red, white, green and gold with patterns like leaves; frayed.
  • Value → it's important because of the story of the great-grandfather taking it from Calcutta to South Africa. Also because she inherited it and will pass it on to her children.
  • Memories → Childhood memory of it hanging on her grandmother's wall.

b)

  • (It) has been in my family for four generations.
  • My grandmother inherited it.
  • (It) was bequeathed to me.
  • I should repair it.