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

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.4 - News blunders for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. -
  2. Work in pairs. Number the blunders in the order they appear in the programme. Some have more than one example (there are seven). Then watch the DVD again and check.
  3. Complete extracts 1-5 from the DVD. Then watch again and check.

Answer

b)

  • Malfunctioning equipment - 1
  • People stumbling over their words - 2, 3
  • The wrong guest in an interview - 5, 6, 7
  • An accident on a live programme - 4

c)

  1. wrong
  2. thing; is
  3. embarrassing (deeply means extremely and also collocates with worrying and involved)
  4. champion; involving
  5. show (It goes to show is a common spoken phrase used when an experlence proves something to be true)