The key answer of exercise 5
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 12 - Presenting history for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning
Question
With your partner, put the extracts below in the order you heard them. Discuss how each extract relates to the main argument. Then listen again and check your ideas.
Answer
- 1b → She claims life would be very different today if it hadn’t been for the war. One example she gives is that after the war in some countries, women won the right to vote. In France women had been a key part of the resistance, so it would’ve been unacceptable for them to be excluded from politics.
- 2h → This is another example of how the war changed women’s status and attitudes. The war saw more mixing of the sexes and more sexual freedom. This fed into the sexual revolution in later years.
- 3d → This is cited as one reason for why the welfare systems were created.
- 4a → This is another example of the impact the war had. State-run social support started as a result of it and today we are so used to having it that we don’t think about not having it.
- 5f → We can’t imagine the massive devastation that led to huge state intervention.
- 6g → Another example of the impact of the war and how the state intervened more after the war.
- 7c → She makes the point that the way we’ve responded to the recent financial crisis is almost the opposite to the response after the war. Recent austerity measures have hit women more than men.
- 8e → It’s another example of how we’ve responded differently to the recent financial crisis. After the war there was a lot of borrowing, the EU was formed and women were given more rights. Now there’s less state intervention and welfare spending, and the EU is under threat of break up.