Answer — Exercise 11
14 - The luck of the draw·Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book
Question
Listen again and check your ideas. Then discuss the questions.
Answer
- Zak’s speech is very good, it makes good use of rhetorical devices (particularly rhetorical questions: Tempted? I bet you aren’t. Peace and understanding? No! but also inversion, pre- empting Stacy’s arguments, and the personal story of John). The arguments are clearly structured. The final sentences clearly summarise the main ideas of the speech.
- Students’ own ideas
- some of the benefits of the lottery, e.g. good causes that are more convincing than those Zak mentions; the fun aspects of playing the lottery; examples of the people who have won and how they have benefitted