Cover of the textbook Focus 4 (2nd edition) - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.8 - Writing for the textbook Focus 4 (2nd edition) - Student's Book with authors Sue Kay, Vaughan Jones and Daniel Brawshaw from Pearson Education

Question

Study the WRITING FOCUS and find examples of each point in the story in Exercise 2.

Answer

  • Get the reader’s attention: Robert Weaver discovered he was not in fact Robert Weaver on Independence Day, 2092.
  • Set the scene: His mother and father were celebrating at their company headquarters on Earth-Station One and had left Robert home alone for the weekend.
  • Use narrative tenses: With his parents away, Robert had decided to throw a party. It was going well ...
  • Shorter sentences: But word had spread, and soon the house was full.
  • Appealing to the senses: A small group had gone downstairs and seen a strange blue glow coming from under one of the doors.
  • Report speech: he / she insisted they find out what it was

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