Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.5 - Lookback for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the text below. What context do you think it appeared in, i.e. what sort of publication and what country?
  2. Work with a partner and make a list of all the facts that make up the story in your notebook.

Answer

a)

Local newspaper because of the style - a single-sentence lead summarising the story, with an emphasis on the physical appearance of the girl - and that it's a typical 'small newspaper human interest story. And the USA, because of words like 'vacationing', 'patrolman', which are used in US English.

b)

Lucy Reed story notes

  • 36 hour search
  • 150 volunteers
  • family panicking
  • Lucy had blonde hair and blue eyes
  • went missing early Saturday morning
  • found by a patrolman
  • he found her at the water's edge
  • Lucy was fine (safe and sound)
  • found yesterday
  • patrolman was off-duty
  • he was on vacation in Rye Beach
  • at the moment he found her, he was out for a morning jog