The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6a - Reading for the textbook On Screen B1+ - Student's Book with authors Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley from Express Publishing
Question
Check these words / phrases below in the Word List at the back of the book. Use them to fill in the sentences.
What do you think the author's purpose in writing the text is: a) to describe spiders? b) to explain how to deal with a phobia? c) to narrate a person's experience? Listen and read to find out. Is the text formal or informal? Give reasons.
author's purpose: b; The text is informal (short verb forms: they can't crawl up, everyday language: stand on end, addresses the reader directly: you see)