Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.1 - Happy ending? for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

Listen to an editor giving the writer feedback on the review. Make notes on a) the strengths b) the weaknesses c) what to change.

Answer

the strengths

  • clear sense of film
  • recommendation
  • background information
  • rich language

the weaknesses

  • too long
  • too much info / detail in each paragraph

what to change

  • cut whole sentences
  • e.g. first long sentence
  • cut 'meanwhile' start 'relatively few'