B2 listening comprehension - national stereotypes

Hi, everyone!

These are the recordings, from unit 2A (p.20), on national stereotypes.

track 2.1

[audio="http://www.ivoox.com/nef-upper-intermediate-2-1_md_1571735_1.mp3"]

track 2.2

[audio="http://www.ivoox.com/nef-upper-intermediate-2-2_md_1571737_1.mp3"]

KEY:

2.1

Speaker 1 (American)

(+) individualistic, hard-working, optimistic

(-) materialistic, very interested in money

Speaker 2 (Irish)

(+) sociable, easy-going, religious, family oriented, good storytellers

(-) melancholic, nostalgic, drink a lot

Speaker 1 (English)

(+) tolerant, open to new ideas

(-) self-satisfied, arrogant towards foreigners, lazy, careless in the way they dress, drink too much

Speaker 1 (Scottish)

(+) proud of their identity, inventive, sociable, like to have a good time, great travellers, well behaved abroad

(-) melancholic, negative attitude towards their neighbours (the English), quite negative towards foreigners

2.2  

1. a) achieve  b) inherited  


2. a) emigration  b) climate


3. a) multi-ethnic  b) unwillingness


4. a) attitude  b) wrongs