Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1 - Urban tales for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in groups. Make a list of reasons why people both tell urban myths and believe them. Then compare your list with another group. Which do you think is the most likely reason?

Answer

Reasons

  • just for fun, or to be funny
  • to offer a moral lesson
  • as part of a conspiracy theory showing distrust in the government
  • a malicious attempt to scare people, embarrass them, or get them to do things

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