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
Listen to someone talking about a treasure family possession. What is the object? What does she say about the points below?
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.