Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.1 - Lonely planet for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. What kinds of details did the writer add to improve the sentences below?
  2. Read the description below. Underline phrases which refer to the senses and identify each sense.

Answer

a)

The writer has added a wider range of vocabulary and details such as colours, shapes, sounds and feelings.

b)

  • hear the voices of the market sellers (sound)
  • sweet smell of fruit (smell)
  • ripened in the hot sun (touch)
  • aroma of strong, fresh coffee and petrol fumes (smell)
  • small, three-wheeled motorised vans (sight / sound)
  • farmers, or 'contadini' (sight)
  • mountains of different coloured fruits and vegetables (sight)
  • firm red peppers, purple beans, tomatoes of all shapes and sizes (sight / touch)
  • liveliness in the air (sound)
  • old ladies haggle over the price of the cherries (sight / sound)
  • wave their arms in rebuke at the younger workers (sight / sound)