Answer — Exercise 2
8.4 - Decisions·Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book
Question
- Watch Part 1 of the interviews and write the country each person chooses.
- Work in pairs. What do you remember? List the reason the person gave for their choice. Then watch again and check.
Answer
a)
- Michael, the presenter → India
- Agnes → the Middle East (she mentions she's been to Lebanon but doesn't specify whether this is the country she wants to revisit)
- Ewan → Spain
- Mila → Ethiopia
- Tricia → Portugal
- Praneet → the UK
- Simon → Germany
- Michael → somewhere warmer than Britain
b)
- Michael, the presenter → India has a culture quite different from his own and the country would challenge his cultural values.
- Agnes → she studies Arabic and would like to 'live that language in practice'. She's already had a flavour of the culture when she visited Lebanon and the food was great.
- Ewan → one of the best European countries: friendly people, cheap things, 'the best'.
- Mila → Ethiopian food is 'awesome'. It has an interesting history as it was never really colonised.
- Tricia → She likes Portuguese culture and wants to become fluent in the language, which means going and living there.
- Praneet → She's loving the UK - it's beautiful, relaxing, there's art everywhere and she's in love with the 'spirit of London'.
- Simon → His wife is German; he's spent many years living there; Berlin's his favourite city on the planet; he loves speaking German, the country and the culture; it's a very 'grown-up place'.
- Michael → As he gets older, he doesn't like the winter weather in Britain.