The key answer of exercise 7
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.1 - Lonely planet for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education
Question
- Read the Lonely Planet guidebook entry for Lisbon. Make notes about the city under the following headings.
- Work in pairs and discuss the questions.
Answer
a)
- Location → southwestern coast of Portugal, overlooking the Rio Tejo
- History → old quarters of the city, the poet Pessoa, 1930s-era cafés
- Nearby sights → Sintra, beaches, fishing villages
- Architecture → Gothic and Moorish, cathedrals, monasteries and a castle, narrow streets
- Things to see / do → visit museums and cathedrals, walk through the narrow backstreets, eat at a small patio restaurant, listen to fado, sit in a 1930s café, go to bars / restaurants in Bairro Alto, or to nightclubs in the docks or in old mansions, go shopping in Chiado, watch the sunset from the castle
- Food and drink → fresh bread and wine, fresh pastries and espresso coffee
b)
- Present tenses for giving information and facts about a place. Makes the description more immediate.
- Fairly informal, and friendly (words like stroll, revellers partying until dawn, scattered) - also contractions like you'd, they've.
- The writer likes the place very much. We can see this from the positive language he / she uses to describe it.