Workbook answer keys and transcripts 17Cathy I was seventeen and Linda was fifteen and we had a
lot of stuff for one small room.
Linda Yo u had a lot of stuff, Cathy! And you never put it away!
Cathy t’s true that I wasn’t particularly tidy then.I
Linda You were extremely messy!!!
Cathy True. And I didn’t realise how messy I was and
how much it bothered my little sister, until one day I was
sunbathing in the back garden and all my clothes came
floating out of the upstairs window.
Linda Yes, I’m afraid I threw all my sister’s things that were
on the floor out of the window. The garden was covered
with them!
Cathy I ran upstairs and we had an argument, but I did try
to be tidier after that.
Linda You did. And the funny thing is, that when we
studied at university, we chose to share a flat together!
And you’re quite tidy now, aren’t you?
Cathy Yep, fortunately I’ve improved since then!Exercises 6 and 7 $ 1. 29^ page 54^
1 Yo u’re always acting the yolder brother and i(t)’s so
annoying.
2 That’s cos I yam the yolder brother ran I’m looking ou(t)
for you.
3 You can nimagine wha(t) my mum though(t) when the
doctor told her the news!
4 I was two wand da half when the triplets were born an I
think i(t) was a real problem for me.
5 One day yI was sunbathing gin the ba(ck) garden nand dall
my clothes came floating gout tof the yupstairs window.
6 I ran nupstairs and we had dan nargument, but tI did try
to be tidier rafter that.
Transcript
See answer key.5D Grammar
Articles and quantifiers
Exercise 1 page 55^
1 an emotional short film 2 the best friend 3 a dog
4 the United States 5 a camper van 6 a serious illness
7 The film 8 ColoradoExercise 2 page 55^
1 The, the 2 a, the 3 –, the 4 the, the 5 a, the
6 The, – 7 a, the 8 an, aExercise 3 page 55^
1 b 2 a 3 b 4 b 5 c 6 bExercise 4 page 55^
1 c 2 b 3 b 4 a 5 c 6 a 7 c 8 bExercise 5 page 55^
1 few 2 one 3 a 4 none 5 both 6 noExercise 6 page 55^
1 a 2 The 3 a 4 few 5 Both 6 many 7 The 8 of4 Sometimes I pushed her (r)away.
5 Later, when I go(t) better at school ...
6 Now I thin(k) she’s grea(t) too.
Exercise 4 $ 1. 27^ page 54^
Transcript
See exercise 3.
Exercise 5 $ 1. 28^ page 54^
1 b 2 b 3 c
Transcript
1 Jake I don’t think you should hang out with Luke so much,
Sam. He’s not a nice guy and I don’t think he’s a good
friend to have.
Sam Luke’s fun! Why are you always commenting on my
friends? You don’t like any of them!
Jake That’s not true! I like Jonathan and Charlie.
Sam That’s because they’re your friends too! Why can’t I
have some of my own friends?
Jake You can and you do! Plenty of them. But I just think
Luke’s a bit of a bad influence on you. He’ll get you into
trouble very soon.
Sam You’re always acting the older brother and it’s so
annoying.
Jake That’s cos I am the older brother and I’m looking out
for you!
Sam Well, thanks, but I don’t need it. I’m old enough to make
my own decisions now and I can choose my own friends.
Jake Fine, whatever. Look, I’m just warning you. Have
some sense. Be careful and don’t go along with all of
Luke’s stupid ideas.
Sam OK, OK. I know what you mean. He does do some stupid
things, but I don’t think he’s bad, just silly. He makes me laugh.
Jake OK, fine, maybe he’s OK. But you look after him, then.
Sounds like he needs it!
2 I’m one of six and I had the bad luck to be born in the
middle. I’ve got two much older brothers who were born
only a year apart and have always been best friends. And
I have two younger brothers and a sister, and they’re
triplets! You can imagine what my mum thought when the
doctor told her the news! I was two and a half when the
triplets were born and I think it was a real problem for me.
I was still just a baby myself. My poor mum and dad tried
to spend time with me, but they were exhausted looking
after the triplets. And my brothers were usually somewhere
else doing something I couldn’t do. It’s not that they didn’t
like me, they were just doing their own thing. So I was
really happy when my grandma came to live with us. She
became my second mum and did everything with me that
my mum wasn’t able to do. Grandma was the one who
taught me how to ride a bike, tie my shoelaces, and took
me to school on the first day – that sort of thing. We’re so
close now, I don’t know what I’d do without her.
3 Interviewer What was it like with you girls as teenagers?
Did you get along?
Linda Well, not all the time, isn’t that right, Cathy?
Cathy That’s right, Linda. We’ve always been close and
we got on well as children, but we had problems when it
came to sharing a room!
Linda Yes! When our parents divorced, we went to live
in a smaller house with our mum and we had to share a
bedroom again.