Life 2e Intermediate – Student’s Book - Answer Key

UNIT 1  

 

2 

1 North America / the United States 

2 traditional clothes 

3 her horse, her clothes 

 

3 

1 group identity. 

2 a horse before they learn to ride a bike. 

3 belong to this group. 

 

4 Example answers  

Cultural societies: book club; film club; choir; 

drama club or amateur dramatics society 

Educational classes: language lessons (e.g. 

Spanish class); 

guitar or piano lessons; art or drawing classes 

Family groups: close family or extended 

family; family or ‘clan’ reunions 

Hobby groups: clubs for people interested in 

gardening, pottery, sewing or knitting, crafts 

or car maintenance, etc. 

Online communities: social networking sites 

such as Facebook; more specific user groups 

such as video gamers 

Sports clubs: golf or tennis club; football 

teams; supporters clubs; gym membership 

 

1a How we see other cultures 

 

2 

baseball cap – the United States 

straw hat – Vietnam 

bowler hat – United Kingdom 

sombrero – Mexico 

bush hat – Australia 

 

3 

1 It means that our brain doesn’t work so hard 

because it doesn’t need to analyse every new 

individual thing that we meet. 

2 When we understand (or think we 

understand) something, we can make 

predictions about it – we know what kind of 

behaviour to expect. 

 

 

 

3 It seems that we all love to feel good about 

ourselves and the group we belong to. This is 

easier when we put others into groups too. 

 

4 Example answers 

Films tend to stereotype nationalities. In James 

Bond movies, for example, Mexicans are 

always having a festival, and Brazilians are 

always on a beach, and the English 

characters are cool but also very dry and 

reserved. 

Some films may choose specific cultural 

groups as ‘baddies’ 

(e.g. Russian gangsters) or they may use 

stereotypes (e.g. a romantic Frenchman, an 

emotional Italian, a humourless 

German). 

Films and TV shows, however, can challenge 

our views in a positive way when they are 

made by specific cultural groups. For example, 

African-American director Spike 

Lee makes films with positive African-American central characters, and director 

Kimberly Peirce challenged gender 

stereotypes with the film Boys Don’t Cry, 

which was about a transgender man. 

News reports often only report bad news, so 

people in Europe only hear about war, famine 

or corruption in Africa – they rarely hear 

positive news stories. 

 

5 

1 present simple 

2 present continuous 

 

Answers to Grammar Summary Exercises  

 

1 

1 have; eat; come; don’t eat 

2 ’s raining; rains 

3 work; ’m not working; ’m having; ’m taking; 

’m writing 

 

6 

1 a I work 

b I’m working 

2 a We’re living 

b We live 

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UNIT 1  

 

2 

1 North America / the United States 

2 traditional clothes 

3 her horse, her clothes 

 

3 

1 group identity. 

2 a horse before they learn to ride a bike. 

3 belong to this group. 

 

4 Example answers  

Cultural societies: book club; film club; choir; 

drama club or amateur dramatics society 

Educational classes: language lessons (e.g. 

Spanish class); 

guitar or piano lessons; art or drawing classes 

Family groups: close family or extended 

family; family or ‘clan’ reunions 

Hobby groups: clubs for people interested in 

gardening, pottery, sewing or knitting, crafts 

or car maintenance, etc. 

Online communities: social networking sites 

such as Facebook; more specific user groups 

such as video gamers 

Sports clubs: golf or tennis club; football 

teams; supporters clubs; gym membership 

 

1a How we see other cultures 

 

2 

baseball cap – the United States 

straw hat – Vietnam 

bowler hat – United Kingdom 

sombrero – Mexico 

bush hat – Australia 

 

3 

1 It means that our brain doesn’t work so hard 

because it doesn’t need to analyse every new 

individual thing that we meet. 

2 When we understand (or think we 

understand) something, we can make 

predictions about it – we know what kind of 

behaviour to expect. 

 

 

 

3 It seems that we all love to feel good about 

ourselves and the group we belong to. This is 

easier when we put others into groups too. 

 

4 Example answers 

Films tend to stereotype nationalities. In James 

Bond movies, for example, Mexicans are 

always having a festival, and Brazilians are 

always on a beach, and the English 

characters are cool but also very dry and 

reserved. 

Some films may choose specific cultural 

groups as ‘baddies’ 

(e.g. Russian gangsters) or they may use 

stereotypes (e.g. a romantic Frenchman, an 

emotional Italian, a humourless 

German). 

Films and TV shows, however, can challenge 

our views in a positive way when they are 

made by specific cultural groups. For example, 

African-American director Spike 

Lee makes films with positive African-American central characters, and director 

Kimberly Peirce challenged gender 

stereotypes with the film Boys Don’t Cry, 

which was about a transgender man. 

News reports often only report bad news, so 

people in Europe only hear about war, famine 

or corruption in Africa – they rarely hear 

positive news stories. 

 

5 

1 present simple 

2 present continuous 

 

Answers to Grammar Summary Exercises  

 

1 

1 have; eat; come; don’t eat 

2 ’s raining; rains 

3 work; ’m not working; ’m having; ’m taking; 

’m writing 

 

6 

1 a I work 

b I’m working 

2 a We’re living 

b We live 

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