Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

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

Question

Read the description of the data in the table and the chart. Find six factual mistakes.

Answer

  1. by population (not by area)
  2. rural to urban (not the other way round)
  3. chart is 2012–2030 not 2014-2030
  4. not true that the global urban population is expected to rise 25%
  5. population of Dhaka predicted to rise by 60% (not 90%)
  6. majority (not minority) of cities are on the coast or major rivers