Cover of the textbook Focus 5 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.6 - Speaking for the textbook Focus 5 - Student's Book with authors Vaughan Jones and Sue Kay from Pearson Education

Question

Listen to students discussing which facilities their college should invest in and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. Arguments for: computer lab – can be considered cultural and used for most things, e.g. watching and editing films, digital design; access to latest technology climbing wall – what most students would like auditorium – the largest proportion of students will benefit from using it cinema – students will not have to go far to watch a film; educational value of watching old films
  2. Disadvantages: computer lab – most students already have access to a computer and spend too much time looking at screens auditorium and art studio – students already have a space they use for these purposes climbing wall – not cultural
  3. No. Two students will vote for the computer lab and one for the climbing wall.