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The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.1 for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Stephanie Dimond-Bayir from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to interviews about Elise and Marc about neighbours and answer the questions for each person.
  2. Complete the summaries with one word in each space. Then listen again and check.
  3. Circle the best alternative way of saying these extracts from the interviews.

Answer

a)

  1. Elise's neighbours are her parents and her brother's family. Marc's neighbours are 'a couple of cows' / a farmer.
  2. Elise likes this situation because they 'help each other. Marc likes the situation because he and his wife 'just love the peace and quiet'.
  3. Elise sees her neighbours every day. They work together and they all eat together once or twice a week. Marc never sees his neighbours, apart from the cows.
  4. Elise has lived there all her life. Marc has lived there for ten years.

b)

  1. perfect
  2. family
  3. eleven
  4. Sunday
  5. normal
  6. husband
  7. ten
  8. Paris
  9. transport
  10. farmhouse
  11. online
  12. first

c)

  1. a
  2. b
  3. b
  4. b
  5. b
  6. a