Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 13 - The hunt for news for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Compare your choices from Exercise 2 and explain your reasons.

Answer

  1. Students may (or may not) share the sympathy (and respect) of the writer with the fact that ‘paps’ work long hours, often for not much money.
  2. The students may (or may not) find the story of ‘paps’ and teens hanging around together amusing: they are moaning about different things, waiting for a boy band star who isn’t even there to come out of a restaurant. The downbeat ‘optimism’ of the final paragraph is funny, too.
  3. Students may possibly find Miguel’s defence and justification of his profession, and his analogy to hunting, annoying; the writer’s sympathy may annoy them, as might her complaint about hard work and her writing style.
  4. Most would probably agree with this. However, Miguel’s assertion that ‘respect’ between hunter and hunted is important may be questionable.
  5. Students might argue that she is on the side of the ‘paps’, sharing their experiences, and coming round to their views and quoting their justifications; she doesn’t present or empathise with an alternative view.
  6. Students’ own views