Answer for exercise 8
The solution for exercise 8 in chapter 1.2 - A life at a time of Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book by Frances Eales and Steve Oakes
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
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