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

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.2 - A life in six words for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

For each pair of sentences, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first.

Answer

  1. I had a new laptop
  2. I'd grown up in a large family / I hadn't grown up in a small family
  3. I were / was more sociable / I weren't / wasn't so unsociable / antisocial
  4. my friend would speak louder / more loudly / my friend wouldn't speak so quietly
  5. I could get to sleep earlier / before 2a.m.
  6. I didn't lose my temper with people (so often)
  7. I had my camera with me
  8. I could cook (well / better)
  9. it would stop raining
  10. I'd spent more time with my grandfather