Will Self’s Great British Bus Journey

Episode 3 : Soup and Laverbread

BBC Podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05w6pw4

Short answer questions

Answer the following question(s).

Q.1. How many homeless people are in the group that the journalist meets?

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Q.2. What type of food is provided by the mobile food van

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Q.3. In the last year, how much increase in demand has there been for the services of the mobile
food van?

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Q.4. How long has the homeless man interviewed been sleeping rough?

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Identify true statements

Choose the 2 true statements

A The purpose of the series is to interview poor people in British cities.

B The journalist wants to study how ordinary people live in British cities.

C Help is provided for homeless people by the city of Devonport

D The volunteers only provide help for homeless people at night

E The series is about travelling around Britain in a bus.

F The journalist wants to give a picture of British cities in 2018.

G In Devonport, volunteers provide food for homeless people.

H Workers are employed to support homeless people in Devonport.

Q.5. ............. Q.6. ...............

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Gap-filling exercise

Complete the following gaps. Use no more than three words for each gap.

In this extract from a radio programme, the journalist describes what he is researching, and
interviews a man who is homeless.

In the series, the journalist says that he is looking at British people through the windows of ...
-(1)- ... and buses

The journalist mentions that he has eaten a perfectly nice meal of ... -(2)- ...

Introducing his experience that evening, the journalist describes it as a very contemporary ...
-(3)- ...

When talking to the homeless man, the journalist says that he understands that it is hard not
to ... -(4)- ... when you’re sleeping rough.

Q.7 [ -(1)- ] ........................................................

Q.8 [ -(2)- ] ........................................................

Q.9 [ -(3)- ] ........................................................

Q.10 [ -(4)- ] ........................................................

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