ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OR RURAL - URBAN MIGRATION

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OR RURAL - URBAN MIGRATION

By: Yared Rovayo

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Reading comprehension – How Much Does the Language We Speak Shape our Identity?

1. cloaked 2. that she wanted to write/become an actress 3. to know who one is 4. a land of injustice and racial divide 5. appreciating poetry 6. equally 7. appealing 8. eloquently 9. reduced 10. ultimately 11. associated 12. slightly 13. threatening 14. voice 15. squeamish 16. C/ E/ F/ G/ I (in any order) 17. gradually 18. taboo 19. more 20. changed 21. disguise

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1. C 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. write 6. discover who I/one was 7. other languages 8. Salpêtrière/ the big mental hospital in France (where Freud worked with Charcot) 9. Anna O/ Breuer’s famous patient (who coined the term “talking cure”) 10. Italian and French

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Reading comprehension – How Much Does the Language We Speak Shape our Identity? (page 229)

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11. confirms it is interesting/not just a geek obsession/ is good for the ego 12. just enough/ extracted from mops 13. numbers grow 14. fanatics do all the organizational work 15. mops 16. mops 17. their/ mops’ favourite songs 18. mops relating to each other in normal ways 19. fanatics 20. True: A subculture at this stage is ripe for exploitation 21. False: The creators generate cultural capital 22. True: They may even do some creating – competently 23. True: the sociopaths look to them like creators 24. True: demoting the creators/ become the coolest kids in the room

1. predictable 2. eventually 3. variants 4. esoteric 5. weird 6. validate 7. at first/initially 8. put on 9. inevitably 10. dilute 11. repellent 12. blather 13. extracted 14. A 15. A 16. B 17. D 18. Students' individual responses

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Listening comprehension transcripts and answers

6A A working-class play (page 219)

The play The Short Goodbye, by Richard Holder, is virtually unknown today, and is hardly ever produced, so it may be hard to understand the impact it had when it was first produced in 1957, but it represents an important landmark in the development of theatre in the UK. So, why was this play so remarkable at the time? Well, to begin with, it took place in an industrial city, which was almost unheard-of as the setting for a play in those days. At the time, plays were often set in small towns and suburbs or country homes, and they tended to focus on the higher end of society. The Short Goodbye, on the other hand, dealt with the lives of factory workers. The main characters, a husband and wife named Colin and Sadie Thomas, were low-paid workers with little education, working in a factory that made car engines. Another feature of the play that broke new ground at the time was that the characters all spoke with a regional accent – before this, what was then regarded as standard English in terms of accent was the norm. Even when characters were from a specific part of the country, authentic regional speech was rarely heard on the stage.

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What is the purpose of the written piece?

A. subjective

WHO IS YOUR AUDIENCE?

WHAT TYPE OF TEXT BEST HELPS YOU ACHIEVE THE PURPOSE?