Cover of the textbook Speakout Starter - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Consolidation 4 - Mystery for the textbook Speakout Starter - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Complete Carla's police statement with the past form of the verbs in brackets.
  2. Underline two differences between Carla's and Mike's statements.

Answer

a)

  1. was
  2. were
  3. weren't
  4. didn't like
  5. played
  6. walked
  7. went
  8. wrote
  9. came
  10. didn't talk
  11. met
  12. had
  13. wanted
  14. was

b)

1

  • Mike: Jim Black was a good friend.
  • Carla: They weren't friends. Mike didn't like Jim.

2

  • Mike: At half past three, we went to our rooms in the hotel.
  • Carla: Jim came back at six.

They also both say that the other person killed Jim.