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

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.1 - Head games for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

Read the article again and write true (T), false (F) or not given (NG).

Answer

  1. NG the text mentions how famous he is in Britain but does not say if he is famous elsewhere or not)
  2. F (the writer can't help being fascinated by how Brown does the tricks)
  3. F (this is not the most important thing for Brown; he is more interested in the relationship between the magician and the audience)
  4. T (he tells people how many fingers they are holding up behind their backs; he beats six world-class chess players in simultaneous games; he predicts the winning lottery numbers; he states how many of a number of salesmen are lying about their pasts; he draws an almost exact replica of a secretly drawn picture in a sealed envelope)
  5. T
  6. NG (the writer is very impressed by the skills of Brown but does not say they are the best he has ever seen)