Answer Key – Unit 3 & Unit 4
Unit 3: Magazine
1c
Title: Glorious
Price: £3.75
Issue: January 2009
Bar code: Bottom right-hand corner
Coverline: There’s never a dull moment!
1e
House Beautiful, Beautiful Britain, Simply Knitting, What Car?, PS3, Vogue, Cosmopolitan,
Esquire, Glamour, GQ, FHM, T3
2a
1. d 2. c 3. a 4. d 5. e 6. a or b 7. a or b
2c
1. c 2. 3 3. b 4. e 5. d
2d
1. font style, capitalisation, colour
2. font size
3. word style (question, imperative, underlining)
4. font style, colour
5. font style
6. colour
3a
1. women’s magazine 2. b 3. a 4. b 5. a 6. b
3b
1. rhyming 2. alliteration 3. alliteration 4. rhyming and alliteration 5. alliteration 6. rhyme
7. alliteration
3e/f – Suggested Answers
a.
- Jen and Paul. It’s getting serious! “She’s fantastic!” he says
- Stunning garden makeover! (It’s easier than you think)
- The hottest new diet – lose ten kilos in two weeks!
- Get fit and quit – how exercise can help you give up nicotine
- This year’s coolest new cars
- The greatest guitar tracks ever!
b.
Celebrity news and interviews, romance, fashion, beauty, slimming, money, work and
career, reviews, horoscopes, homes and interior design, shopping, true life, personal
problems
c.
Food, fashion, true-life stories, romance
d.
- New designers in Rio
- Vegetarians at the beach
- Beach food test to leave suddenly to take an assignment
- Commissioning articles: April 21st; copy: May 19th; artwork: May 30th
- Thursday at 10 am
4d
- are going to be (prediction)
- “I’ll hand you over…” (to transfer call/control)
- “to do a short piece” = report quickly
- deadlines: April 21st (commission), May 19th (copy), May 30th (artwork)
- editorial team meeting: make final decision on contents
4e
1. spontaneous decision: will
2. pre-made future plan: be going to
3. future arrangement: present continuous
4. future schedule: present simple
5. prediction: be going to/will
4f
1. I’m interviewing 2. want 3. You’ll also need 4. They’ll be needed 5. Can 6. will be 7.
need
5a
- Making a proposal: I’d like to propose…
- Objecting: I don’t know
- Dealing with objections: That’s not a problem
5b
1. c 2. a 3. b 4. c
5c
- Heading order: Let’s get back to the point; I’ll hand you over to Richard; Let’s go over what
we’ve decided…; Have we covered everything?
6a: script = interviewer questions for guests
6b: Yes, they both refer to possibility of work
6c: Always (5x), Never (4x)
6d: Informal/formal expressions identified
7b: Formal message = full name, polite request
7c: 1. b 2. c 3. a
8a: figure out = understand; go down = stop working
8b
1. Phrasal verb is sometimes literal
2. Same phrasal verb has different meaning
3. Some phrasal verbs only have one meaning
8c
1. Moving on 2. Coming up; go over 3. lined up 4. tuned in 5. make up; get away with 6. set
aside 7. do without
9a – Suggested Answer
1. Yes – refers to expert
2. Yes – breaking news reference
3. Yes – sign-off to staff
9b
1. that the house had made the news
2. Unfortunately + clause
3. More formal expression
Unit 4: News
1a
2. say 3. responded 4. explains 5. adds 6. said
g. Remember, wonder
h. can/cannot, Tell/Say
1b
1. added/explained 2. said/explained 3. told 4. said/explained
1c – Suggested Answers
TV news = national, international affairs
Social affairs = health, drugs, population
Reporter = collects and edits facts
Researcher = prepares and confirms info
1d
Both journalists and TV presenters work with news stories.
TV = records and narrates; journalist = writes articles.
2a
1. T 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. T
2b
1. f – she is in Bangladesh
2. f – the building was in Birmingham
2c
1. e 2. 3c 3. 4a 4. 5g 5. 6c
3a
1. c 2. b 3. d 4. a
3b – Suggested Answer
Mass market magazines = celebrities, gossip, etc.
4a
1. c 2. b 3. d 4. a
4b
1. c 2. d, f 3. e 4. b
10b
1. Ann Storm felt nervous
2. Matt was waiting
3. Matt managed
4. Donor became available
5. Ann had suffered
6. The operation finished… Matt puts his arm
10c
Past simple: 1, 3, 7
Past continuous: 2
Present perfect: 5
Last paragraph = narrative result of success: TV host again
