Cover of the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6B - Can’t give it up for the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Jerry Lambert and Kate Chomacki from Oxford University Press

Question

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  4. Now read about Anisah's experience of the detox. Underline all the positive effects of the challenges, and circle the negative ones.
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  6. Now listen to an interview with Clive about his experience of the detox. Answer the questions.
  7. Listen again. What does he say about ...?

Answer

d)

Positive

  • reading more books
  • sleeping better
  • not having work emails

Negative

  • being left out of family WhatsApp communications
  • too quiet
  • not being able to listen to music
  • not communicating with anybody
  • not being able to take photos

f)

  1. Generally less stressful because he doesn't rely on his phone as much - he doesn't use many apps and he's happy to put his phone away.
  2. He uses his phone and Twitter more than he thought.
  3. Because his phone screen time and pick-ups had gone up.

g)

  1. He isn't really a techie - he only uses WhatsApp and Twitter, and he doesn't play games on his phone.
  2. He missed the two he normally uses, but otherwise, it wasn't a problem.
  3. He never has his phone at the table, and he doesn't like it when other people do.
  4. Checking the football is his guilty pleasure - something he enjoys but knows he shouldn't do.
  5. He works for News at Ten, and without a phone it was difficult to find out about the news stories they would be covering.
  6. If the Queen died suddenly and he didn't have his phone, people wouldn't be able to let him know and he wouldn't be able to do his job.
  7. It was the thing he couldn't cope with.
  8. He can do without social media, but as a journalist, he has to use it because it's part of the job.