eng7-R4· Unit 4· ~20 min

Read an interview with a young travel blogger

Follow William Bakker's background, audience, response to comments, travel habits, favourite trips, and future destinations.

The interview is organised by implied questions. The first paragraph introduces William; the next explains his followers and decision to post in English. Later paragraphs address negative comments, the items he carries, favourite trips, and his travel to-do list. Identify the question each paragraph answers, then use exact wording for dates, numbers, reasons, objects, and places. Treat now as the time of the interview.

Key terms

increase — become bigger in number
interact — talk with other people
ignore — pay no attention to something
inspire — make someone want to do something
oversized — larger than the usual size
recent — happening in the near past
Interview map
ParagraphFocus
1identity, childhood dream, current travel, follower total
2followers, English posts, worldwide reach, interaction
3negative comments and William's response
4suitcase, clothing, and equipment
5best and recent favourite trips
6travel to-do list
✎Resolve a reference
  1. 1Locate: Look back through the excerpt for the noun or idea the pronoun could refer to.
  2. 2Replace: Substitute that noun into the sentence.
  3. 3Check: Confirm the meaning remains logical and supported.
🚫Do not update the article

Numbers and current favourites belong to the time of the interview.

💡Question clues organise the text

An answer listing objects responds to what he carries, while a list of places responds to his travel to-do list.

Rules

  1. 1Use only the quoted part of William Bakker's profile as evidence.
  2. 2Include the named person or noun before interpreting a pronoun.
  3. 3Match each paragraph to its purpose: identity, followers, comments, belongings, favourite trip, or to-do list.
  4. 4When because gives a reason, do not replace it with a nearby detail.
  5. 5Treat article-time words such as now and recent as relative to the interview.
  6. 6For comparisons, require explicit evidence for every part of the answer.

Practice

6 easy · 6 medium · 6 hard

Up to 10 random questions per test