Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.2 - Kid power for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Listen again and check.

Answer

  1. Microsoft began the trend for using teenagers to find out what is trendy in technology.
  2. Kids drive technology because they have no fear of it and automatically home in on the new.
  3. Kids want technology that can be carried around.
  4. Text messaging caught on because kids wanted to pass notes to each other during class.
  5. Teenagers influenced the ThinkPad because they took notes in the dark during lectures.
  6. Collaborative computing will be useful because people will be able to work simultaneously on a project with someone on the other side of the world.
  7. Converse trainers sent their market researchers to the basketball courts of New York, and other places where you find teenagers.