Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10 - Media for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Workbook with authors Jane Comyns Carr, Frances Eales and Damian Williams from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to and / or read the article. Which of the following things are mentioned?
  2. Listen and / or read again. Are the statements true (T) or false (F), according to the article?

Answer

a)

1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9

b)

  1. T
  2. F (It was about a woman who used to be a teacher.)
  3. F (ninety percent of commercially sponsored, daytime programme.)
  4. T
  5. F (A 'cliffhanger' is an open ending to an episode which leaves you wanting to find out what happens next.)
  6. T
  7. T
  8. F (They tend to be working class.)
  9. F (Romance features heavily in soap operas and in old style paperback novels.)
  10. T