The key answer of exercise 3
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 03 - Writing for the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education
Question
- Read the tips for writing a good blog. Find examples of each tip in Florence's blog.
- Which tips did / didn’t Hannah follow? Make six ordinary adjectives in her blog more interesting.
- Add the following facts to Hannah's blog in the correct place.
Answer
a)
- However, our hotel isn't special at all. We've got a tiny, dirty room and the beds are awful. I had a very restless night.
- You can hear the seagulls and smell the sea air even in the prison.
- In the 1960s it was home to the hippy movement, but nowadays it's home to a lot of internet companies like Twitter.
- The first thing I noticed was how beautiful and cosmopolitan it is here.
b)
Hannah didn't follow:
- tip 2 (using all her senses)
- tip 3 (basic facts)
- tip 4 (using interesting adjectives)
- nice → wonderful
- old → historic
- best → most romantic
- pretty → beautiful
- nice → spectacular
- busy → crowded / touristy
c)
- ... the Bridge of Sighs, which was designed by Antonio Contino.
- ... nice old city that was founded around 1,500 years ago.
- ... Piazza San Marco. Venetians call it 'the Piazza'.
- ... to get around Venice is to walk because no cars, buses or trains are allowed in.
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