The new Talk about English Quiz

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Fashion Quiz Thursday, March 8, 2007

Presenter:
Callum Robertson

Guests:

Michaela Aumann & Gholamraz Zakeri Representing International House London

Ana Stepanenko & Daniella Mengelli Representing The English Studio

Programme Summary
This Talk about English programme is a live quiz between two teams of students who are studying English. The quiz is on the topic of fashion as well as general knowledge. There is also a debate and a round of questions based on comprehension of these texts:

Weekender - Size Zero
Words in the News - Spain resizes clothes for women

Debate
In the programme the students also debate a topic. We want you to choose which team wins the debate! Listen to their arguments then use the voting buttons on the page to choose which team you want to win.

NOTE: Voting has now closed - the result can be seen below

The topic of the debate was:

Celebrities and the media have a lot of influence on the way people want to look and dress. After hearing the arguments from the teams what do you think of this?

Results:

1: It's a good thing (The English Studio team)	(46 %)
2: It's a bad thing (International House team)	(54 %)