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Answer — Exercise 13

1.2 - Family ties·New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

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