Answer — Exercise 2
3.3 - The good old days?·New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book
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
- mostly disagrees
- 'the tyranny of geography' - when people had restricted choice according to where they lived.
- There is a huge amount of choice in his high street.
- to show that there are shops from many different countries in one high street
- 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
- mostly disagrees
- She says that different variations of food are being created and that is good.
- no
- a type of English which is used for people to communicate with other non-native speakers
- 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.