Answer — Exercise 7
12 - Presenting history·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
Question
Look at the contextualised questions below. In each case, underline the phrases you could re-use about other presentations.
Answer
- At one point you said something about the effect of inflation on the decline of the Roman Empire. Could you elaborate on that a bit?
- I didn’t quite understand the point you were making about the role of Christianity in the fall of the Romans. Could you go over that again?
- You mentioned the rise in divorce after the war. Do you have any specific statistics on that?
- In your introduction, you gave a quote from Churchill. Could you tell me what the source for that is?
- You seem to be arguing that the reforms failed. Don’t you think that that’s a bit of an overstatement?
- I think you cited a study by Brooks and Hart. Do you have the full reference for that?
- You referred to something called the Doppler Effect. Could you just explain exactly what that is?
- I think you claimed that doing grammar is a waste of time. What evidence do you have for that?