Answer — Exercise 5
8.3 - Tot.com·New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book
Question
- Listen to two friends discussing the article. Is each person's opinion.
- 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
- W → the trend for providing special computer classes for toddlers is ridiculous
- W → What is the point in taking national exams at seven years of age?
- M→ it is predictable that the director of the college would say that there were no negative effects at all - she would say that
- M → making money comes into the positive feelings the director of the college has towards the programme
- W → what the educational psychologist said confirmed what the speaker felt about toddlers having computer lessons
- W → the speaker feels the man should read the article