Cover of the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.3 - Are you free tonight? for the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to a phone call between Ron and Max. Which thing in Exercise 1B do they talk about?
  2. Listen again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false sentences.
  3. Is Max a good listener? Why / Why not?

Answer

a)

the cinema

b)

  1. F → Ron likes his new job.
  2. F → Ron doesn’t like all the people in his office.
  3. T
  4. F → The don’t agree to meet.

c)

No. He doesn’t show any interest in Ron's new job and he doesn’t ask Ron any questions. His voice doesn’t sound interested (he has a very flat intonation).