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

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.1 - Moving experiences for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to someone talk about a film he never gets bored with watching. What is the film and what is the main reason he likes it?
  2. Listen again and make notes on the following.

Answer

a)

The film is Speed. He likes it because it’s tense, gripping and full of suspense.

b)

  1. It's tense without being too violent or gory.
  2. He's missing a thumb.
  3. The bus has to keep going above a particular speed (fifty miles per hour), or it will blow up.
  4. She thinks it sounds uncomfortable to watch.
  5. Keanu Reeves jumping onto the bus; the bus driving in traffic; the bus going onto a bridge that's being built.
  6. Keanu Reeves did his own stunts.
  7. She's beautiful.
  8. She prefers comedies.