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

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 12 - Listening for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

Listen to the two news stories and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. To prevent the media from publishing details of an extra-marital affair he had with a colleague. He is a family man and said he and his family have a right to privacy.
  2. Charlotte Morland's phone was hacked into by tabloid newspapers. They published details of her mother's mental illness and as a result, her mother had a breakdown. Charlotte Morland wrongly accused friends of selling stories to journalists.