IT'S A SOUTHERN THING

Open your books, p. 60.

1 Do you know what are stereotypes? What stereotypes have you heard of for people from Croatia and what for people from the USA?

(stereotip - sklop pojednostavnjenih i pretjerano uopćenih osobina koje se pridaju svim pripadnicima neke društvene skupine, npr. Japanci su marljivi i točni, crnci su glazbeno nadareni ...)

2 Copy the words in your notebooks and translate, then match the adjectives to their meanings in Task 2:

It's a southern thing

easy-going -

hillbilly -

redneck -

stingy -

enthusiastic -

conservative -

suspicious -

commit a murder -

self-defence -

Constitution -

3 Read the texts in Task 3.

4 Listen and check how the texts finish. (IZZI)

Lesson 3B It’s a Southern Thing ANSWER KEY

Exercise 1 a) south

Exercise 1 b) 1 south – jug, 2 southern – južni, 3 Southerner – južnjak, 4 southernmost - najjužniji

Exercise 2 a) 1 a), 2 b), 3 b), 4 a), 5 a)

Exercise 2 b) 1 conservative, 2 easy-going, 3 enthusiastic, 4 stingy, 5 suspicious, 6 enthusiastic, 7 suspicious, 8 easy-going, 9 stingy, 10 conservative

Exercise 3 1 B, 2 C, 3 B, 4 A, 5 B, 6 A, 7 C, 8 C, 9 A, 10 B

Exercise 4 a) 1 C, 2 E, 3 G, 4 B, 5 A, 6 D

Exercise 4 b) Students’ answers. Suggested answers: 1 It’s a survey about the stereotypes Americans have of different regions in the USA. 2 The USA is broken down into West, Northeast, Midwest, and South. 3 Holden doesn’t agree with the results of the study because he thinks these are just stereotypes.