Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 13

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.2 - Family ties for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to three people. What are they talking about? Do they agree with each other?
  2. Listen again and complete the How to ... box.

Answer

a)

They are discussing relationships between older and younger siblings and attitudes of parents to children depending on their position in the family. They disagree on whether younger children look up to an older sibling and on whether parents are more liberal towards younger children.

b)

  • think; middle
  • experience; similar
  • interesting; suppose