Answer — Exercise 7
1.4 - Francesco's Venice·Speakout Advanced - Students' Book
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.
b)
- (It) has been in my family for four generations.
- My grandmother inherited it.
- (It) was bequeathed to me.
- I should repair it.