Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 5

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

Question

Work in pairs. Check you understand the words and phrases in bold. Then discuss what the words in italics refer to.

Answer

  1. It = a baby (reflexes = very quick ways of reacting that you do without thinking about it)
  2. It = a submerged baby (intuitively = naturally, without learning to, using feelings to guide you)
  3. This = the fact that babies will grasp your finger if you touch it on the palm (trace = a small sign of something that has been present or has happened, ancestral = connected to your ancestors, those related to you who lived long long ago)
  4. it = a baby (blank slate = something in its original state / condition and not yet changed by experience)
  5. It = a baby (barrage = an overwhelming quantity of – in a negative way, like you’re being attacked by these things)
  6. it = baby doing the experiment with puppets, this outcome = the one they find surprising or unexpected (outcome = final result of the process)
  7. They = the results of the research (pretty consistent = very similar time and time again, not changing in any major way)
  8. They = pigeons, this = the number of crumbs on a street corner (glance = a very quick look)