ECHO 5

Listening comprehension
QUALITY
REAL PEOPLE:
OF LIFE
PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION

Answer key

GETTING THE BIGGER PICTURE

1 age, race/ethnic background, social class/economic status

LISTENING FOR DETAIL

1 They are rude, ignorant, and don’t know what’s going on.(00.45)
2 Daniel says that it is a common thing that previous generations feel that the current generation
are, for example, not as hard-working. (2.00)
3 No. (3.00)
4 Miraca says that white Australians with British backgrounds took Aboriginal children away from
their families, put them in schools and forced Christianity upon them. (4.40)
5 Sitting at the same diner counters as white people and drinking from a water fountain that was
for whites only. (6.00)
6 He says that in the US race is something people are conscious about and talk about openly. In
the UK people are not comfortable talking about race, even though there are very real problems.
(7.00)
7 … they are scared that they might be called racists. (7.30)
8 He says that he is aware that he might be prejudiced against rich people / people from a more
privileged background because he assumes that they are ‘snobby’ and that they ‘look down on
poorer people’. (8.40)
9 They told him that things were going to be different for him, that he was not going to be treated
in the same way as his friends. (9.40)

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Echo 5