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The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 04 - World culture - Nature or nurture? for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Watch seven people answering the question 'Did your parents treat you / your siblings in a gender-stereotyped way?'. Complete the first column in the table.
  2. Watch again and complete the second column.

Answer

a)

  • Heather: no
  • Fauzia: yes
  • Monica: yes
  • Elliot: yes (but they tried not to)
  • Louisa: no (but thought differently later in life)
  • Luis: yes

b)

  • Eben: his parents expected more of him, but all his sisters looked up to him, even the older ones.
  • Heather: her parents raised her to be independent and they both had to do the same chores.
  • Fauzia: her brother was allowed to stay out later than her and her sister.
  • Monica: her brother used to get away with a lot more, but he was put under a lot of pressure to achieve and she wasn't.
  • Elliot: his parents tried to treat them the same, but they tried to protect his sister a bit more.
  • Louisa: never felt she was treated differently until she was twenty-five and her parents chose her brother to meet her grandfather in Portugal.
  • Luis: he grew up in a typical Spanish family and his mother did everything at home. He didn't learn how to cook an egg or iron a shirt until he left home.