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D. Match the discourse markers with their usages.
1. Actually, it’s changed a lot since it started.
2. Obviously, the women are all very attractive.
3. Unfortunately, there are still some silly rules.
4. Surprisingly, you can only enter when you’re older.
5. Similarly, you can’t be a parent.
6. Anyway, they were talking about some of the
charities…
7. Additionally, they were working with a group in
India.
8. …especially as we still have a long way to go.
a. to add another point
b. to add when something happens in the same way
c. to introduce a negative situation
d. to introduce something unexpected
e. to move on
f. to emphasise something
g. to emphasise something is clear
Speaking
h. to emphasise something when a person thinks the
A. Discuss with a partner. opposite is true
1. Are beauty contests like Miss Universe
popular in your country? E. Work as a group of three to prepare a dialogue. Use
2. If they are popular, who are they popular the discourse markers from exercise D.
with – teenagers/older people/women/ Student A
men/models/business and finance sector?
3. Why do some people not like this sort of You’re a teen who wants to enter a local
competition? beauty contest. Explain the reasons why it
would be a positive experience. You need your
B. Before you listen to the recording, do you think parent’s permission to enter.
these statements are true (T) or false (F)?
1. The Miss Universe beauty contest started in Student B
the late 1950s.
You’re Student A’s friend and think beauty
2. Miss Universe competitors do a lot of work for contests are terrible and humiliate women.
charity.
Explain why you think entering would be a bad
3. You must be between 16 and 28 years old to experience.
enter the Miss Universe competition.
4. You can’t be married.
Student C
5. If you’ve had children, you can’t enter.
You’re Student A’s parent. Listen to the
6. The 2019 British Miss Universe participants different points of view. You can add your own
raised money for a South African group ideas as well.
working to save elephants.
At the end of the discussion, decide if you
1.2 give your child permission to enter the beauty
C. Listen to the dialogue and check your contest.
ideas.
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