Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.2 - Three apples a day for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. -
  2. In sentences 1-8 cross out the alternatives that are not possible. In many cases both alternatives are possible. If so, is there any difference in meaning?
  3. Work in pairs and look at the sentences in Exercise 1B. Which are presented as fact and which as opinion? If opinion, do you agree? Which of the supposed factual statements surprises you the most?

Answer

b)

  1. photo-shopped / retouched, shoot / filming.
  2. victims / martyrs; follow / keep up with; last / latest
  3. catwalk / runway - catwalk is British English, runway is US English
  4. conscious / aware
  5. eating disorders / ailments
  6. deceiving / deceptive - both are used, though deceptive has the connotation that one has the intention of being misleading; photogenic / photographable ('photographable' is syntactically possible but the meaning - 'capable of being photographed', doesn't fit in the context)
  7. back in fashion / fashionable again; gone out of fashion / been unfashionable
  8. distorting / contorting; regard / view

c)

  • Presented as fact → 1,2,3,5,7
  • Presented as opinion → 4,6 (beauty is too subjective for this to be fact), 8