Answer for exercise 3
The solution for exercise 3 in chapter 12 - Listening of Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book by Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave
Question
- Listen to a radio phone-in show. Are most listeners sympathetic to the unnamed entertainer and the Morland family?
- Match the listeners to opinions a-f.
- Listen again and answer the questions.
Answer
a)
Listeners seem to be sympathetic to the Morland family, but not to the unnamed entertainer'.
b)
- Robert
- Carol
- Becky
- Lesley
- Gemma
- 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'.