Page 227 - Complete_advanced_students_book_with_answers_Neat
P. 227
Answer key: Unit 8
4 Tom: What are you doing tomorrow? Speaking | Part 3
Hazel: Taking my driving test.
3 1 They talk about all five of them.
5 Suggested answers 2 Suggested answers: Not entirely. They skim over
1 Hazel asked Tom if/whether he had ever used the topics of radio/TV and the Internet, referring
Wikipedia. Tom said (that) he had used it the day to the power/popularity of these media but
before / the previous day. without saying how they influence people’s ideas
2 Tom wondered how well Hazel knew his sister. and behaviour. They address the question more
Hazel explained that they were best friends. successfully when discussing advertising and
3 Hazel wanted to know what Tom would do after multinational corporations.
university. Tom replied that he would probably 3 Suggested answer: Generally yes, but the topic
work abroad. of newspapers is treated rather briefly and
4 Tom asked Hazel what she was doing the superficially.
following day. Hazel told him (that) she was taking 4 Yes
her driving test.
CD 2 Track 05
Anna: They’re all quite important influences, aren’t they?
Reading and Use of English | Part 3 But I’d say that nearly everyone watches television so
it’s got to be a big influence on people.
1 1 inaccurate 2 unimportant 3 unselfish Lukas: And the radio – there are loads of people who
4 illegal 5 impossible 6 irregular 7 dissimilar have the radio on all the time, whatever they’re doing.
8 intolerant
Nouns: 1 inaccuracy 2 unimportance Anna: Yeah, that’s because it’s pretty easy to do things at
3 unselfishness 4 illegality 5 impossibility the same time as you’re listening. TV’s not like that, you
6 irregularity 7 dissimilarity 8 intolerance know, you’ve got to watch to make sense of it.
Lukas: The point is, does radio have as powerful an
2 1 disappear 2 reclaim 3 misinform 4 prejudge influence as the TV?
5 overreact 6 destabilise 7 understate Anna: No, probably not, but we’re not supposed to be
Nouns: 1 disappearance 2 reclamation thinking about radio and TV separately, are we?
3 misinformation 4 prejudgement 5 overreaction
6 destabilisation 7 understatement Lukas: No, I suppose not. I’d say things like the news
on TV can have a greater influence because you can
actually see what’s happening.
3 1 autobiography 2 co-owner 3 ex-politician
4 mistrust/distrust 5 semi-circle Anna: OK – now we’ve got newspapers. I’d say quite a
Adjectives: 1 autobiographical 2 co-owned few people read these, but I think people tend to read
3 no adjective 4 mistrustful (but not distrustful) the newspapers that agree with their political opinions,
5 semi-circular so they probably don’t actually change many people’s
ideas or opinions.
4 1 They have taught their students ‘that there is no Lukas: That’s true or if they just want amusement, sport
such thing as truth in television products’. and things like that, they read one of the tabloids. OK,
2 He says that according to current theories, there is so on to, erm, advertising.
little difference between the two. Anna: Advertising’s just everywhere. You couldn’t get
away from it even if you wanted to.
5 1 intellectual 2 journalism 3 accuracy Lukas: There’s so much brand management now – it’s all
4 decode 5 difference 6 insistent 7 impartiality sort of subconscious. Companies sponsoring things
8 argument
and …
Anna: Too much money spent on advertising.
Lukas: Do you think it has much effect on people?
Anna: It must do, or the companies wouldn’t spend so
much money on it, would they?
225
