Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 12

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3 - A United Kingdom? for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Which sentences below do you think the lecturer would agree with? Explain your ideas by referring to things the lecturer said.

Answer

  1. Yes → resort to the idea of a national unified culture
  2. No → seems to think globalised commerce is fine. The economy is not mentioned.
  3. Yes → the reality is that identity is a very personal thing – and the individual cultural identities of people living in pretty much any society that you care to name vary
  4. No → it’s mainly the ruling elite
  5. No → education tends to be used to reinforce culture not criticise it as a concept
  6. Yes → in an increasingly globalised world, a world that’s driven by commerce, our interactions are becoming more and more complex and multi-layered