Answer — Exercise 2
8.5 - Lookback·Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book
Question
- Read the text below. What context do you think it appeared in, i.e. what sort of publication and what country?
- 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