Answer — Exercise 3
4 - Big issues·Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book
Vraag
Listen to five short news stories. Decide which of the issues from Exercise 1 is discussed in each one.
Antwoord
- homelessness (getting vulnerable young people off the streets and into hostels; teenagers sleeping rough on the streets)
- gender discrimination (she was denied promotion after telling colleagues she was pregnant)
- racism (a young Asian student was attacked by a gang of white youths; it may well have been racially motivated)
- the destruction of the environment (had been planning to build a hotel and leisure complex; protests by local residents; the group Save Our Seaside ...; ‘vandalism on a huge scale’)
- family size (as she is already bringing up five children, one more will make little difference)