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The key answer of exercise 3

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

  1. Listen to a radio phone-in show. Are most listeners sympathetic to the unnamed entertainer and the Morland family?
  2. Match the listeners to opinions a-f.
  3. Listen again and answer the questions.

Answer

a)

Listeners seem to be sympathetic to the Morland family, but not to the unnamed entertainer'.

b)

  1. Robert
  2. Carol
  3. Becky
  4. Lesley
  5. Gemma
  6. Carl

c)

1

  • Becky: X's children haven't chosen to be famous; they are the ones who are going to suffer
  • Carl: X's behaviour is hypocritical so the public has a right to know
  • Lesley: X should have thought about his children before he started having an affair
  • Gemma: what happened to the Morland family makes her ashamed to be British; nothing can compensate for that kind of trauma
  • Robert: the public are the hypocrites, not the journalists; tabloid newspapers only publish stories like this to sell newspapers

2

The Presenter doesn't really give an opinion, except to say that the story of Charlotte Morland and her mother is 'sad'.

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