Answer — Exercise 3
7.1 - The great escape·Speakout Advanced - Students' Book
Question
Sentences 1-4 express ideas in the story, but are phrased slightly differently. Rewrite them using the prompts in italics.
Answer
- What police didn't initially realise was that the man standing in front of them was John Darwin, 'the missing canoe man.
- It was only when he failed to arrive at work for a night shift that the alarm was raised.
- What he did then was spend the next few years hiding inside the house and rarely leaving,
- It was a colleague of Anne Darwin's who eventually put the pieces of the puzzle together.