The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.2 - A life at a time for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education
Question
Read the article and choose the best title.
Underline the best alternatives (more than one may be possible) and give reason for your choice.
Work in pairs and discuss.
Answer
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a)
a) What's on your Wish List?
b)
anyone
informal
online magazine
inform; entertain; describe
quotations; examples
c)
question 1
Paragraph 1 → Grab the reader's attention with questions and a friendly tone.
Paragraph 2 → Describe the main purpose of the site, and how it works.
Paragraph 3 → Give some detall with examples.
Paragraph 4 → Summarise, giving the writer's opinion and a suggestion to the reader.
questions 2 & 3
A catchy title → What's on your Wish List?
Informal rhetorical questions → Have you ever ... ?
A question-answer sequence → You know ... ? / Well, that's what ...
Addressing the reader directly → 'you' in first paragraph
Quotations → in 2nd and 3rd paragraphs
Examples → taking decent photographs, helping the homeless
Informal sentence starters → So what kind ... ?
Contractions → that's, it's
Informal lexis and lexical phrases → sets out to, come up with