The key answer of exercise 3
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
- Listen to someone retelling a news story about a man who swapped a paper clip for a house. Number the things he traded in the correct order.
- Listen again and tick the phrases you hear.
Answer
a)
- a paper clip
- a pen shaped like a fish
- a door knob
- a snow globe
- a part in a film
- a house
b)
- Did you [hear this story / see the news] about ... ?
- Apparently what happened was ...
- According to [the report / the guy on the news] ...
- Anyway, so he ...
- I don’t remember all the details, but ...