Cover of the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.4 - The blind painter for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Answer the questions.
  2. Look at the quotes from the DVD. Try to complete the phrases using the words in the box.
  3. -
  4. Match the words and expressions from Exercise 3B with a)-f) below.

Answer

a)

  1. His name is Sargy Mann, he's an artist and he lives in a little town in North Suffolk with his wife Frances. For twenty-five years he's been registered blind, he manages to paint even though he's blind, he paints large colourful paintings of landscapes and figures, his work sells for thousands of pounds.
  2. He didn't know what else to do.
  3. He uses it as reference points for different parts of the body that he's painting.
  4. Well-known collectors and celebrities, including Stephen Spielberg, Daniel Day Lewis and Bruce Springsteen.

b)

  1. nonsense
  2. go
  3. sensation
  4. landscape
  5. coordinates
  6. edgy

d)

  1. extraordinary sensation
  2. landscape painter
  3. edgy
  4. coordinates
  5. seem a nonsense
  6. give that a go