Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 16 - The fame game for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Discuss why the people and things below were mentioned. Check your ideas by looking at the article again if you need to.

Answer

  1. When you date a famous person you get on the front page of gossip magazines. 
  2. Shows like X Factor are a kind of karaoke.
  3. Kurt Nilsen was a winner of his country’s Pop Idol and then World Idol.
  4. Howard Davies-Carr is the man who uploaded a short film that went viral.
  5. YouTube is a website which shows clips that people have uploaded.
  6. Paris Hilton has very rich parents which is why she is famous.
  7. Golda Bechal is the woman who left a fortune to a couple who had been friendly to her when she was lonely.
  8. Kuldeep Singh is the guy who saved several peoples’ lives by removing a bomb.
  9. The Zimmers were the band which was formed by old people.
  10. The Who wrote the original song which the Zimmers performed.