Cover of the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.3 - That's great news! for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to seven conversations. Match the conversations to the pictures A-G.
  2. Look at the pictures again. What is the good news or bad news in each situation?

Answer

a)

  1. F
  2. A
  3. E
  4. D
  5. G
  6. B
  7. C

b)

  1. good news → they were impressed with the interview; bad news → they've offered the job to someone else
  2. good news → she's split up with her boyfriend; bad news → he's already engaged to someone else
  3. bad news → Steve's lost his job; good news → he's going to get £30,000 from the company
  4. good news → he's OK; bad news → he crashed the other person's car
  5. good news → she won €2,000 in a creative writing competition; bad news → she's going to spend it all on bills
  6. good news → he's got a new job; bad news → it's in Germany, so he has to move
  7. good news → she's been offered a place at university; bad news → she's leaving home