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

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.3 - Stories in the news for the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Rachael Roberts, Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

Listen to Eben and Rachel discussing question 1 in exercise 1a. Look at the opinions in exercise 1a and note down who agrees with them - Eben, Rachel or both.

Answer

  • Different newspaper report the same story in different ways. → both
  • Newspapers sometimes try to make news stories sound worse than they are. → Eben
  • Newspapers have to make stories sound exciting in order to sell. → both