The key answer of exercise 7

1. A high-level manager at Jazz Drinks is said to have sold crucial strategic information to Pit-Pots for over two million dollars.
2. TV presenter Jonas Bakeman is fighting to save his career after stories appeared of his affair with a researcher on his programme, ‘Justice Fight’.
3. Campaigners have claimed victory in their battle against full body scanners in airports, saying it is a gross invasion of privacy as the scanners can see through clothing.
4. Farmer Tim Langford has agreed to the pink statue of his prize-winning pig being relocated to a nearby sculpture gallery after many complained about it.

Let students decide on least serious to most serious. Story 4 is, perhaps, the least serious, 1 is very serious because it involves a criminal act, but students may argue that 2 (a person’s reputation) and 3 (a fight for a cause) may claim to be more serious.