Cover of the textbook Focus 4 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.7 - Writing for the textbook Focus 4 - Student's Book with authors Kay Sue, Jones Vaughan, Brayshaw Daniel and Beata Trapnell from Pearson Education

Question

Underline two sentences in Ben’s article that tell you what the topic of each main paragraph will be.

Answer

  • Although some university courses sound very interesting, young people often avoid them because in many cases they don’t lead to an obvious career.
  • Understandably, many students decide that a more practical degree, in accountancy or engineering, for example, is a safer option, even if the particular subject doesn’t really interest them.