The key answer of exercise 2
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 07 - Reading and speaking for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education
Question
- Read about events 1-4 above and check your ideas.
- Work in pairs and discuss the questions.
Answer
a)
The Wall Street Crash and the Jarrow March
- the Stock Exchange
- rebellion
- reforms
- starvation
- shares
- homelessness
- to protest
The Summer of Love
- an alternative lifestyle
- the establishment
- rebellion
- to protest
The fall of the Berlin Wall
- a border crossing
- rebellion
- reunify
- to protest
Obama's election night
- the campaign for Black rights
- victory
b)
- The Wall Street Crash: 1929 in New York, spreading all over the world; protest; because the crash brought about the 'Great Depression', homelessness and hunger; it was a worldwide event.
- The Jarrow March: 1936 from Jarrow in the north east of England to London; protest; because of severe unemployment as a result of the 'Great Depression'; it was a national event.
- The Summer of Love: 1967 in San Francisco; celebration; an alternative lifestyle was born from a rebellion against the establishment; there was rebellion in many parts of the world, but the 'Summer of Love' itself was in San Francisco.
- The fall of the Berlin Wall: November 1989 in Berlin; celebration; following the erosion of communist rule in Eastern Europe, East Berliners were at last allowed to cross the wall and visit the West; all countries under communist rule in Eastern Europe were eventually affected.
- Obama's election night: November 2008 in Chicago, USA and across the world; celebration; because Barack Obama became the first black president of the United States; celebrations took place across the world.
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