Answer — Exercise 3
13 - The hunt for news·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
Question
Work in pairs. Compare your choices from Exercise 2 and explain your reasons.
Answer
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Most would probably agree with this. However, Miguel’s assertion that ‘respect’ between hunter and hunted is important may be questionable.
- 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.
- Students’ own views