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] ...