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The key answer of exercise 9

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.1 - Bright ideas? for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Complete the information with examples from the entries in Exercise 8B. More than one answer is sometimes possible.
  2. Listen to seven sentences. Write the compound noun in each sentence in your notebook and underline the stress. Where does the stress usually fall?

Answer

a)

  1. breakthrough / outlook / drawback / breakdown / outcome / downside
  2. trade-off
  3. breakthrough / trade-off / drawback / breakdown
  4. outlook / outcome

b)

  1. There's been a breakthrough.
  2. It's a trade-off between cost and safety.
  3. The long-term outlook is very good.
  4. The downside is I get paid less.
  5. There's only one drawback.
  6. There's been a breakdown in communications.
  7. What was the outcome of the meeting?