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

The key answer of exercise 11

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.1 - Lead or follow? for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to two people discussing how they behave in different situations. Which situations do they talk about?
  2. Do you think they are similar or very different from each other?
  3. Listen again and tick (✓) the phrases from the How to ... box you hear.

Answer

a)

  • leading a discussion at work
  • giving a presentation at work
  • being in a crowd of people at a party
  • making a complaint in a shop

b)

Mostly similar to each other. Both say that they behave differently in different situations. Both say they are calm / confident about making presentations in work when they can prepare what they are going to say. The first speaker seems to agree with the other that it harder when they are talking to people they don’t know in social situations.

c)

  • Most of the time, I’m quite a calm person.
  • Generally, at work I think that I'm fairly confident.
  • I actually became quite aggressive with the person.
  • Suddenly, I changed into this aggressive person.
  • If I don’t know people, then I find that I’m a lot less confident.