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The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.3 - Tot.com 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 friends discussing the article. Is each person's opinion.
  2. Listen again and for each of the quotes (1-6) say who said it, and what he / she is referring to.

Answer

a)

  • woman → a
  • man → c (he expresses mixed feelings and sees both sides of the argument)

b)

W = woman; M = man

  1. W → the trend for providing special computer classes for toddlers is ridiculous
  2. W → What is the point in taking national exams at seven years of age?
  3. M→ it is predictable that the director of the college would say that there were no negative effects at all - she would say that
  4. M → making money comes into the positive feelings the director of the college has towards the programme
  5. W → what the educational psychologist said confirmed what the speaker felt about toddlers having computer lessons
  6. W → the speaker feels the man should read the article