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ADAPTATION
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Language focus Creating emphasis and cleft sentences
1 Read the sentences and answer the questions.
It was at a writers’ festival that George got the idea for his next book.
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2 Not a single crime novel deals with commonplace low-level events.
What might be in the water beneath him came into his thoughts more nowadays.
3
4 The unfortunate truth is that crime fiction is often formulaic and predictable.
Which underlined structure (1–4) emphasises:
a some factual information? c a problem or issue?
what someone is thinking about? the lack of something?
b d
2 Complete the sentences so they have the same meaning as the sentences in
Exercise 1.
1 George
2 There aren’t
3 Nowadays he
4 Unfortunately,
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3 Go to Ready for Grammar on page 226 for further rules, explanations and practice.
4 S P E A K Work in pairs. Complete the sentences with your own ideas.
What I find most interesting / disappointing about adaptations of books is …
The best adaptation of a book / play I’ve ever seen is …
An adaptation of a book / play I’d like to see is …
The author / director / playwright I’d most like to meet is …

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1 Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs from the box.

fight get on sleep stick out watch
1 Joanne and I like a house on fire at the party. We just have so much in
common and virtually identical tastes in music, food and movies.
I didn’t want the kids to have an accident, so I them like a hawk while
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they rode their bikes down the street.
3 The building didn’t blend in with its surroundings. In fact, it like a sore
thumb.
4 All families tell tales of sibling rivalry, where sisters and brothers are so different that
they constantly like cat and dog.
5 After such an exhausting day, I suspect that I’ll like a log.
2 Complete the sentences with an adjective from the box.

clear dull mad sly tough
1 There’s a fine line between being called eccentric or as as a box
of frogs!
2 The book was as as ditch water ; I’ve never read anything so tedious.
3 Luis won’t be upset at this setback – he’s as as old boots.
4 No one can fix the printer – the instruction manual is as as mud.
She’s as as a fox in business negotiations largely due to her ability to
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read people’s weaknesses.
3 S P E A K Work in groups and discuss the questions.
1 Were you able to guess the meaning from the context of the sentences in Exercise 1
and 2? Why? / Why not?
2 Which of the similes have more literal meanings and which are more abstract?
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