Answer — Exercise 9
5.1 - Shopping·Navigate Elementary A2 - Coursebook
Question
- Work in small groups. Take turns to ask and answer the questions in 7a and give reasons.
- Listen and check your answers. How many did you get correct? Which of the answers surprised you?
Answer
a) - b)
- People could buy things online in 1994. The first thing they could buy was pizza.
- In the 1990s, rich people couldn’t buy trips into space. But in 2001 Dennis Tito paid to visit the International Space Station.
- Today you can buy eggs from vending machines in Japan. And you can also buy flowers, fruit and umbrellas and many other things.
- You can buy a bottle of rainwater for $11 these days. The water comes from the sky, into a bottle and then you drink it. It never touches the ground.
- You can’t use euros in Norway and Sweden. They use the Norwegian Krone and the Swedish Krona.
- People could buy things from machines in 1890. The first vending machines were in London in the 1880s and they sold postcards.
- In the 1960s, you couldn’t buy petrol at supermarkets. They started to sell petrol in the 1970s.
- You can’t buy clothes online from all the big fashion companies. For example, Chanel don’t sell their clothes online because they believe customers need to try everything on.