Solutions Adyanced Workbook Key
7 Indiscreet
8 drop
9 rumour 10 wraps
6 further
7 soul
8 discretion
9 knowledge
Wclt. as it happens, his wife works al rhe company too and becausc we are all obsiousty really curious to find out his reat name we often tryand prisc it out of he: but she always feigns ignorance. I don't know if she's been swom to secrecy orwhethec shc’s been kept in the dark like eyeryone clse.
Anyway. there’s a big prixe for the First
person whomanages to find out! 1 He doesn’t attract attention.
5 dingy
6 rousing
7 nondescript
8 gtlmy
3 1 many
2 as
3 in
4 by
5 had
6 who
7 where
8 with
1 Across
2 glean
3 scandal
4 reveal
5 sealed
6 soul Down
1 eavesdrop
2 1 |uicy
2 scandal
3 strktest
4 confidence
5 breathe
3 1 An ex-emptoyee blew the whlstte on FCONTs Ulegał finandal actMties.
2 James clammed up when he reallsed everyone was listening.
3 The potitldan stonewalled when asked puestions about the conuption scandal.
4 When the news broke that there woutdn'l be a pay rtse, the unions organised a strlke.
5 The judge tried to hush up the fact that his son had been arrested.
6 Dalsy lsn't supposed to know about the party but I think someone must have let it slip.
1 1 boost 6 betray
2 crop 7 glve
3 fali 8 tum
4 prise 9 felgn
5 get
Speaker 2 IVe gol an aunt called lackie who's only about (en years older than mc and we've always been very close. lackie used lo be super sensitiyc aBout her nose so she decidcd to have cosmctic surgeryto make it smaltcr.1 must haw been about erght at tbe timc - i remember her havmg a bandage on her face for what seemed like ages. ABout a year later she started going out with lim and two years after that they got engaged. Weil. at the engagement party the subject of plastk surgeryeropped up in a conycrsation between lackie. Jim and mc and I said. 'Remember when you had that nose job. lackie?' Weil. she looked dogge/S at mc! It turned out that l'd just betrayed her biggest secret!
3 & 2. 4. 6. 9
4 1 £ 2 a 3 b
5 1 She ha s had to prom ise not to
reveal the secret.
2 She has been kept ignorant I She hasn't been told.
3 She looked at me in a yery angry way.
6 1 Have a think about it.
2 i didnt mean to cause offence.
3 He came to the condusion that he had madÄ™ a mistake.
4 She dropped a / the hint that it was time for me to leave.
5 Can we have a talk?
6 He's madÄ™ / taken the dedslon to reslgn.
7 Let me have I take a took at >our swollen ankle.
8 Glve me a cali on my mobile.
9 l could do with havlng I taking a rest.
10 Ifs tlme you did some revision.
7 1 Fancy comlng for a |Og? Can't be
bothered. Promlse.
2 Stlllworklngat the shop? Lastl heard. it was Canada. Typical!
3 Another drink? OK. see you soon. Will do.
4 Mind If I dose the wlndow? No. chilly in here. isn't ii?
Challenge! Students' owo answers
1 1 obscure
2 flimsy
3 impudent
4 ostenslble
9 In/during
10 which
12 lot
13 have
4 1 resourceful. coldblooded. skllled
at self-defence. good-looking
2 to e.iemptify a public place where someone would get noticed
3 He isn't good-looking and therefore doesn’t attract attention; he has a prodigious memory and an Innate abitity to detect people's strengths and weaknesses.
4 rhat he is just as ruthless as his enemy.
5 Students’ own answers
5 1 resourceful
2 unassumlng
3 prodigious
4 an innate abitity
5 ruthless
9D Hoaxes page 78-79
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T These and morÄ™ unanswered |
questśons very pulckiy led the worid's Internet users to one condusion: It was a hoax.
F... a trip he'd madÄ™ to New York in 1997
3 T Unfoctunately for Hence. one of his friends decided to share his e-mait vrlth the rest of the world.
4 F have been motlvated by interests other than attempts at humour of questionable taste.
5 T Jhe Sundoy Times announced an eAdusiye that was surÄ™ to Increase its dreulation: the seriallsatlon of Adolf Hitler*s diaries.
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Speaker 1 TJ Granfs real name
Speaker 2 Jackie's nose job
Transcript W8 19 Speaker i IVe got this boss called T| Grant. He always insists on being called T) bccause he couldn‘t stand his real name and kceps it under wraps.