Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

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

  1. Read about events 1-4 above and check your ideas.
  2. 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.