Answer — Exercise 5
Video 8 - Long neck women·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
Pergunta
Work in pairs. Discuss what the narrator said using the words and numbers below.
Then watch the second part of the video again (1.23-4.50) and check your ideas.
Resposta
- Mar Nang is the matriarch of the hill tribe – the female leader of the community.
- Mar Nang’s coil is long enough to form 25 concentric rings – it’s over twelve inches high.
- To outsiders, the rings may appear to be shackles of slavery or suffering.
- The heavy coils are made from solid brass rods.
- Neck pieces can weigh as much as a standard car tyre.
- They start off by adding just a few rings, then as each extra coil is added, they start pushing the clavicle (the bone from your shoulder to the bottom of your neck) down – and then the ribs are squeezed and flattened.
- Folklore says a women’s neck will break if coils are removed and it’s unsupported. (Mar Nang has proved this is not true many times.)
- Today a nineteen-year-old comes to Mar Nang complaining about her sixteen rings. Mar Nang will take all the rings off and refit them.