Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.2 - Switching off for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read about someone who found true freedom by learning a new skill. What did she learn and how did she do it?
  2. Check what you know. Underline the present and past participles in the text. The first two have been done for you.

Answer

a)

She learnt the tango by taking classes and practising at home.

b)

  • Feeling jaded from life at a desk and armed with ...
  • Having listened to the music as a child, ...
  • Not wanting to give up, ...
  • Using a CD lent to me by a friend, ...
  • Encouraged by my teacher, ...
  • ... having struggled with it for months ...
  • People looking for something a bit different ...