Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 10

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.2 - It's a wiki wiki world for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the article again quickly. Is it formal or informal in style?
  2. Complete the How to ... box with headings from the box below.
  3. Work in pairs and answer the questions.

Answer

a) The article is informal. It contains colloquialisms, spoken English, humour, etc.

b)

  1. Informal vocabulary
  2. Style (spoken English)
  3. Ellipsis (omitting words)
  4. Humour

c)

  1. savvy → glever, smart; guy → person, man
  2. informal vocabulary → how come?; breezed through spoken English → It's amateurs; But is it the most reliable?; humour → For the vandals, it's about as worthwhile as a graffiti artist using invisible ink.
  3. And what about the future?