Cover of the textbook Identity B1+

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.3 for the textbook Identity B1+ with authors Elizabeth Sharman from Oxford University Press

Question

Answer the questions.

Answer

  1. According to Patrick Moore, the Earth was going to lose gravity on 1st April 1976 because certain planets were going to align in a straight line with the Earth, causing a rare moment of zero gravity.
  2. Lots of people phoned the BBC on that day because they believed they had experienced the loss of gravity as described by Patrick Moore. Some even reported floating around their houses or hitting their heads on the ceiling.
  3. Ghostwatch was a TV programme presented as a realistic documentary, broadcast on Halloween 1992, depicting a live investigation of 'the most haunted house in Britain'.
  4. The writer of Ghostwatch didn't make it more obvious that it was fictional because he wanted to maintain the suspense and believability of the horror story, aiming to enhance the audience's experience.
  5. Animal rights activists, the meat industry, and customs officials objected to ThinkGeek's joke product. Animal rights activists criticized the product, the meat industry threatened legal action over the slogan 'the new white meat', and customs officials held an order because it was labeled as the meat of a rare animal.
  6. A German customer had problems receiving his order because customs officials held the shipment, believing it to be the meat of a rare animal due to the product's label as 'unicorn meat'.

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