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

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 11.1 - Keeping in touch for the textbook Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the travel blog. Match the words in bold to the things they refer to in the box.
  2. Underline the correct alternative.
  3. Rewrite this travel blog. Replace the underlined words with we, us, it, there, he, them, here, our, etc.

Answer

a)

  • It's big → Izmir
  • Most of them → my new friends
  • they're new → my new friends
  • Our course → my new friends and my (course)
  • looking forward to it → the course
  • haven't met him → Ahmed
  • he sounds nice → Ahmed
  • near there → the city centre

b)

to avoid repetition of words

c)

Alecia and I have finally arrived in Bucharest, and we love it. We thought we should update you on our tour. Last month we were in Hungary. We had a really good time in there. We met a man called George, who was very friendly. He took us to some wonderful lakes and castles, and we really enjoyed them. The other news is that we have decided to stay here for at least two years. We think it will be a wonderful experience for us.