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

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 09 - 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 the article and answer the questions below.

Answer

  1. Because it's the key to creating a connection with people.
  2. To look relaxed and 'raise your status'.
  3. It makes you look more radiant and lively.
  4. 'Name-dropping' makes you sound like an expert yourself.
  5. Using abbreviations, acronyms and complicated words also makes you sound like an expert.
  6. When you meet a real expert.
  7. She stood up for what she believed in and sparked the American civil rights movement.
  8. They have followers.
  9. They think leadership is about other people looking up to them and serving them, when in fact true leaders treat other people as equals and serve them.