The key answer of exercise 5
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.2 - A good read for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education
Question
Listen to three people answering some of the questions below. Which questions do they answer? Make notes on what they say.
Answer
1 → Who is your favourite fictional character?
- Speaker 1 → Philip Marlowe
- Speaker 2 → Elizabeth Bennett
- Speaker 3 → the old man from The Old Man and the Sea
2 → How do you visualise them (what do they look like)?
- Speaker 1 → like Humphrey Bogart: tall, good-looking, tough
- Speaker 2 → quite tall with a very lively, mobile face and possibly dark hair
- Speaker 3 → quite old, big strong hands that were cut and bruised, a little bit of grey hair
3 → What personal traits do they possess (type of character)?
- Speaker 1 → doesn't always say the right thing, always has a clever retort, has real problems, very clever, very tough, likes to get to the bottom of the problem
- Speaker 2 → sparky, lively, feisty, lippy (talks back to men), takes control of her own life
- Speaker 3 → wise, took pride in his job, did his best
4 → What memorable things do they do?
- Speaker 1 → unlike most modern characters, he doesn't always win/isn't always on top of the situation
- Speaker 2 → takes control of her own life, goes for the guy that she really loves, wins her guy in the end
- Speaker 3 → dragged himself out every night, cast his nets, hoped he would catch something
5 → What problems do they overcome?
- Speaker 1 →solves murder crimes
- Speaker 2 → women had little control over what happened to them in the marriage market, people thought she was socially unacceptable
- Speaker 3 → he was down on his luck in the story, hadn't caught anything for a long time, had little opportunity in life
6 → Do you know anyone like them in real life?
- Speaker 1 → doesn't say
- Speaker 2 → doesn't say
- Speaker 3 → the speaker's father