Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.4 - Secret island for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Work in pairs. Check you understand the words in bold.
  2. Answer the questions.

Answer

a)

  • deserted → empty and quiet because there are no people there
  • abandoned → left by the people who owned or used it
  • uninhabited → not lived in
  • rehabilitation → the process of helping someone to live in a healthy, active way again
  • quarantine → keeping a person or animal apart from others for a time in case they are infected with a disease

b)

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  2. Maybe there is nowhere for people to work, so they move away. Perhaps a building is deteriorating and needs repair but there is no money. Perhaps an area is no longer desirable to live in.
  3. People who have been ill, broken a bone or had surgery may need rehabilitation. Addicts or prisoners also need rehabilitation.
  4. Infectious diseases (like the plague, cholera, tuberculosis, diphtheria, etc.) require quarantine.