The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.3 - Sorry I'm late for the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education
Question
Look at the online diary extracts below. Why was the woman late each day?
Listen to the woman talk to a colleague. Which two days does she talk about?
Listen again. Which two things are different from the online diary above?
Answer
a)
Monday → The train didn’t go very fast.
Tuesday → She woke up late, missed the train and the next one stopped for twenty minutes.
Wednesday → The train stopped twice, once for no reason and then because there was a cow on the line.
b)
Monday and Tuesday.
c)
The recording says the woman was two hours late for work, but the text says one hour.
The recording says the train stopped for forty minutes, but the text says twenty minutes.