Cover of the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.1 for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Workbook with authors Frances Eales, Steve Oakes and Louis Harrison from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the text and answer the questions.
  2. Listen to four people speaking about their experiences. Which ideas 1-8 in the text in Exercise 4A did each one try?
  3. Listen again and make notes about.

Answer

a)

  1. To make the world a better place by giving people ideas for small actions they can do as individuals.
  2. E → 1, 4, 6, 7; PS → 2, 3, 5, 8

b)

  1. idea 5
  2. idea 7
  3. idea 2
  4. ideas 3 and 8

c)

Speaker 1

  1. hates it when people forget her name; particularly at school - teachers don’t give you as much attention if they don’t know your name
  2. makes people uncomfortable because they can’t remember her name

Speaker 2

  1. pollution. - it takes 1,000 years for a plastic bag to decay; animals and fish get caught in them
  2. people keep trying to give her one; forgets to bring one with her

Speaker 3

  1. people look bored or miserable, especially on public transport
  2. a colleague thought he was flirting

Speaker 4

  1. has always been bad at it and wants to use jokes to build relationships
  2. has problem with timing in jokes; embarrassing moment when he told boss a joke - he didn’t think it was funny