Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 9

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4 - Cast your vote for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in groups. Answer the questions below about these events.

Answer

  1. You vote for a person or party: an election for a student council, a general election, a local election, a talent show vote; you vote for a law or action: a referendum, a strike ballot, a vote in parliament
  2. In top to bottom order: Column 1: students, the general public, the public in a particular region or city, selected members of the public; Column 2: the general public, workers, MPs
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  4. an opinion poll – although you don’t elect a person, or decide on a law or action, it allows people to see what people think; in elections, opinion polls are used by pollsters to find out how the public might vote, so, in that respect it is connected to voting in elections
  5. Possible answers: you might vote for a mayor, a police chief, sports personality of the year
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