Cover of the textbook Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.3 - There's a problem for the textbook Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs. Look at phrases 1-8 below. What do the words in bold mean? Which things can you see in photos A-E?

Answer

Definitions

  1. delay → a period of time when you have to wait for something to happen
  2. litter → waster paper, cans, etc. that people leave on the ground
  3. service → the help that people who work in a restaurant, etc. give you
  4. faulty → not working properly
  5. loudly → not quietly, noisily
  6. crashing → stop working suddenly (for computers)
  7. stuck in a traffic jam → not able to move in a long line of cars, etc. on a road
  8. spam → unwanted emails

Photos

  1. 5
  2. 6
  3. 1
  4. 2
  5. 7