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
Read the article again quickly. Is it formal or informal in style?
Complete the How to ... box with headings from the box below.
Work in pairs and answer the questions.
Answer
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a) The article is informal. It contains colloquialisms, spoken English, humour, etc.
b)
Informal vocabulary
Style (spoken English)
Ellipsis (omitting words)
Humour
c)
savvy → glever, smart; guy → person, man
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.