Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.4 - The con artist for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

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  2. Listen to two people talking about the case and check your ideas from Exercise 6A.
  3. Listen again and tick the key phrases you hear. Which phrases are idioms? What do they mean?

Answer

b)

  • The forger made mistakes: The horses' reins in the relief were inconsistent with other reliefs of that period, and the forger made a spelling mistake on the inscription. The father, George, then offered to sell the piece at a suspiciously low price.
  • In the end, Shaun was sentenced to four years in jail, and the family had to pay back £400,000. The parents were spared prison sentences because of their age.

c)

  • All of the phrases are used.
  • Idioms → Let something slip means you accidentally reveal a secret.; Give the game away means get caught by accidentally revealing something; Be on the right track means your guess is not far from the truth.