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

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.3 - The good old days? for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs in the same group. Tell your partner about the comments you read. Say what (if anything) was written about the following topics: stereotyping, food, holidays, music, shops and language.

Answer

Student A's text

  1. mostly disagrees
  2. 'the tyranny of geography' - when people had restricted choice according to where they lived.
  3. There is a huge amount of choice in his high street.
  4. to show that there are shops from many different countries in one high street
  5. He says we can now choose much more how we want to be and what we want to do (not defined by our nationality / place we live).

Student B's text

  1. mostly disagrees
  2. She says that different variations of food are being created and that is good.
  3. no
  4. a type of English which is used for people to communicate with other non-native speakers
  5. A single language is when everyone speaks one language (e.g. English) and a common language is when people speak their own language but can also speak English, so can communicate with each other.