The key answer of exercise 3
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10 - Putting your foot in it for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning
Question
Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
Answer
- Students’ own answers
- Because Ratner was making the joke in private to fellow businesspeople that he knew well. Unfortunately, a journalist was also present and broadcast the jokes, which created a media storm, which led to his downfall!
- The airline attendants and Charlie Sheen also all thought they were talking in private, and didn’t realise they were actually communicating with a broader public.
- According to the author, the impact of 24-hour news has been a desperate need for news to fill the time. Even a minor faux pas can become big news, as every follow-up reaction is reported, and drags the story out.
- Presumably, the writer is glad he’s not famous because he’s probably said or done things in the past that could have proved very embarrassing or damaging to him if they’d become more widely known about.
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