The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.1 for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Stephanie Dimond-Bayir from Pearson Education
Question
Listen to three people answering the questions below. Write their answers.
Listen again and answer the questions.
Read the extracts from the recording. What do you think the words and phrases in bold mean? Match them with meanings a)-f).
Answer
a)
Maria
Which? → English
How? → In lessons at school
Ahmed
Which? → Dutch
How? → In evening classes (at college in the Netherlands)
Jessie
Which? → Japanese
How? → In day-to-day life informally
b)
Thailand
A translator
The Netherlands
He spoke English.
Because English is commonly used and they don’t feel pressure to learn another language.