Cover of the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3B - Dramatic licence for the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Jerry Lambert and Kate Chomacki from Oxford University Press

Question

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  2. -
  3. Now listen to Part 2. In general, is Adrian positive or negative about Spartacus and Braveheart?
  4. Listen again and answer the questions.

Answer

c)

Adrian is positive.

d)

  1. That if there is a film that is the only thing people ever see or know about a historical event, then it becomes accepted as the truth.
  2. The scene when Kirk Douglas and all his friends stand up and say, 'I am Spartacus.'
  3. Very few. That he was a man who led a rebellion and many people died (were crucified) at the end.
  4. It was completely invented in the film.
  5. That Braveheart was about the idea of Scotland as an independent country.