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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.4 - Tess for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Watch the DVD. How did each woman feel when she was crossing the water? Tick two adjectives for each person.
  2. Watch again. Who says each sentence? What do they mean by it?
  3. Work in pairs and discuss the questions.

Answer

a)

  1. eager; pleased
  2. nervous; awkward
  3. excited; disappointed
  4. anxious; happy

b)

  1. Tess → She means there's no need to be nervous about being carried by Angel.
  2. Angel → He's commenting on the fact that Retty is much smaller and lighter than Marian.
  3. Izzy → She wants to kiss Angel and asks Tess if she'd mind (because Tess is his 'favourite').
  4. Angel → He's carried the other three women just so he can spend a few moments with Tess.
  5. Angel → He means that he didn't expect to have this moment with Tess, not that he didn't expect the road to flood (as Tess suggests).

c)

Escapism → many people are fascinated by seeing how people lived in an apparently simpler and less stressful world, with wide divisions between gender roles and rich / poor, but without modern conveniences, technical and medical advances, etc. For many, the fascination is the costumes themselves → how attractive they make people look, how difficult they'd be to wear, etc.