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

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.3 - So what you're saying is ... for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the extract from the radio phone-in. Find two phrases where people ask for clarification of an idea.
  2. Read audio script 6.6 on page 170 and find two other phrases to ask for clarification.
  3. Complete the sentences to paraphrase 1-4.

Answer

a)

  • So basically you think ...
  • So what you’re saying is ...

b)

  • So in other words, ...
  • So what you mean is ...

c)

  1. have to work
  2. give elderly people more respect / respect elderly people more / have more respect for elderly people
  3. be / get punished
  4. be / get paid as much as / more than men