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

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

  1. 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.
  2. Listen again and tick the phrases you hear.

Answer

a)

  1. a paper clip
  2. a pen shaped like a fish
  3. a door knob
  4. a snow globe
  5. a part in a film
  6. 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 ...

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