Speaker 1 Kevin is very quick to think negative things about people. Even when he talks about his best friend, he always tells you about his faults. And if somebody hasn’t got any faults, he invents them

Emily

They might listen if we get people to stop 

buying their products.

Ewan

Perhaps, but how many people do you think will

do that?

Emily

So what should we do? Just watch people lose 

their jobs and their homes and then end up on 

the streets? It’s difficult, I agree, but I think we 

have to show our disagreement with things we 

think are wrong! And it’s good that the people in

power know that we are watching them.

2.15 Lesson 8C, Exercise 2

I’m Charlotte. I’m 17, and I live in Bristol, which is, 

incidentally, one of the coolest cities in the south west of 

England. My friends and I saw reports of the national anti-

austerity demonstration in London – you know, where 

people were protesting against the threatened cuts in 

welfare from the new government. It was too far for us to 

travel, but all the same we wished we could have been 

there. And then one of my friends said, ‘Well, why don’t we 

organise one here?’ We put up an invitation on Facebook to 

all of our friends. Mind you, we hadn’t done anything like it 

before so we didn’t know what to expect. But it just grew 

from there, and on the day, 5,000 people turned up to 

demonstrate! It was a completely amazing experience.

By the way, a lot of great things have come out of that one 

Facebook page. For instance, we are now collecting food for

local food banks and women’s shelters. We’re only young, 

but even so, with Facebook, we’re effective!

2.16 Lesson 8C, Exercise 4