Answer — Exercise 2
10.2 - Popular culture·Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book
Question
- Read the article below. In what situations do celebrities use fake names? What is the joke in each chosen name?
- Work in pairs and look at the participle clauses in bold in the article. Then answer the questions.
- Compare the sentences below and underline the participle clauses. Then complete the rule.
Answer
a)
- The article mentions registering in hotels as a situation where celebrities use fake names.
- Alotta Warmheart sounds like a lot of warm heart.
- Ross Vegas sounds like 'Las Vegas'
- George Clooney's fake name is the name of another star who doesn't look anything like him.
b)
- All of them.
- 1 → who / that are registered at hotels under their real name; 2 → who / that are trying to take their pictures; 3 → who / that are taking selfies; 4 → which / that involve wordplay; 5 → who were / got married in 2000 but were / got divorced five years later; 6 → which / that was used by George Clooney
- present participle (ing form) or past participle
c)
- b) Names involving wordplay are common.
- b) The people working in the hotel thought the name was funny.
- b) The hotel, built in the 1980s and regularly used by film stars, is famous.
- Rule 1 → present
- Rule 2 → past