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

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.1 - And the moral is ... for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

Read the story again and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. The writer puts the same saying (or a version of it) in both the first and last paragraphs.
  2. Paragraph 1 → past simple, past perfect simple, past perfect continuous, past continuous
  3. Paragraphs 2 and 3 → all four past forms are used but the past simple is the dominant form in the section.
  4. The writer expresses his feelings all through the story by using adverbs such as stupidly and by sometimes simply saying how he felt, e.g. I was nervous or his physical sensations, my mouth was so dry I couldn't speak.
  5. He says what he learnt in the last paragraph.