Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.4 - Teachers and learners for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. -
  2. Watch Part 1 of the interviews. For each speaker note a) the subject the teacher taught and b) why their teacher was inspirational. Whose ideas are the most similar to your?
  3. Watch again and complete the phrases.

Answer

b)

Peter

  • German
  • inspired him to think ahead, use what he had (nothing about personal qualities)

Jeanne

  • Intellectual Property
  • made the subject accessible, he was passionate and inspired her to be passionate

Wael

  • MA studies (applied linguistics and psychology of 2nd language acquisition and bilingualism)
  • makes you feel you can do it, can-do attitude, passionate

Agnes

  • Development Studies
  • he puts research into practice, inspiring, cares about his teaching and students learning

Priscilla

  • PhD supervisor (subject not mentioned)
  • inspired her to challenge herself, inspiring

c)

  1. sparked
  2. think ahead
  3. accessible
  4. can-do
  5. puts it into
  6. challenge myself