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

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.5 - Lookback for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Rewrite sentences 1-4 using the correct form of one of the words / phrases in the box.
  2. Work in pairs and discuss. What could 'it' be in each sentence above?

Answer

a)

  1. People with many talents can adjust to it well and tend to find a new job quickly.
  2. It's caused damage to family relationships.
  3. It's had a positive effect on the quality of life of people in the developing world.
  4. It revolutionised the way people think about war.

b)

  1. losing your job / being made unemployed
  2. TV, mobile phones, the internet
  3. medicine, better crops, provision of water pumps / wells
  4. news broadcasts, 24-hour news, photographs of war, blogs / forums / social media, a particular war film