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Answer — Exercise 5

9.2·Speakout Intermediate - Workbook

Question

  1. Look at the table. What information do you think goes in gaps 1-6? Read the text below and check your ideas.
  2. Complete the questions.
  3. Match words 1-6 with definitions a)-f).

Answer

a)

  1. around 1880-1895
  2. 1945 to about 1960
  3. A novel: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
  4. Rebelling against their parents' values, not wanting to work for the same company their whole life, listening to 'grunge' music, playing video games
  5. between 1980s and 1990s
  6. Love of technology, amazing networkers, constantly online, great multitaskers

b)

  1. Socrates say (about the younger generation)
  2. begin naming each generation
  3. people were killed in World War I
  4. after the Second World War (from 1945-1960)
  5. wrote Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation / first described Generation Y in detail
  6. people used the internet in 2010

c)

  1. e
  2. d
  3. c
  4. a
  5. b
  6. f
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More exercises in 9.2

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Ex. 4