Answer for exercise 5
The solution for exercise 5 in chapter Video 8 - Long neck women of Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book by Carol Nuttall and Amanda French
Question
Work in pairs. Discuss what the narrator said using the words and numbers below.
Then watch the second part of the video again (1.23-4.50) and check your ideas.
Answer
- Mar Nang is the matriarch of the hill tribe – the female leader of the community.
- Mar Nang’s coil is long enough to form 25 concentric rings – it’s over twelve inches high.
- To outsiders, the rings may appear to be shackles of slavery or suffering.
- The heavy coils are made from solid brass rods.
- Neck pieces can weigh as much as a standard car tyre.
- They start off by adding just a few rings, then as each extra coil is added, they start pushing the clavicle (the bone from your shoulder to the bottom of your neck) down – and then the ribs are squeezed and flattened.
- Folklore says a women’s neck will break if coils are removed and it’s unsupported. (Mar Nang has proved this is not true many times.)
- Today a nineteen-year-old comes to Mar Nang complaining about her sixteen rings. Mar Nang will take all the rings off and refit them.