Cover of the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1 - Telling tales for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at the names of four of the other plots. Check the words in bold in a dictionary. Then discuss which sentence might go with which plot.

Answer

  • Comedy: 2, 5 (e.g. Beauty and the Beast; Twelfth Night; Cyrano de Bergerac; You’ve Got Mail)
  • Voyage and Return: 4, 7 (e.g. Gulliver’s Travels; Alice in Wonderland; Big; 17 Again)
  • Rags to Riches: 3, 6 (e.g. Cinderella; Aladdin; The Pursuit of Happyness; The Blind Side)
  • Tragedy: 1, 8 (e.g. Macbeth; Carmen; Breaking Bad, Black Swan)