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

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Communication 2 for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs and compare your notes.

Answer

Old boys' club

  • the main idea of the club → keep in touch with old school friends, have reunions
  • other things that it does → gets involved in charity events
  • type of meeting → party
  • who can be a member → anyone who went to the same school
  • problems → difficult to keep in touch without meeting regularly, you rely on other people to run the club, and sometimes you don't hear anything for a year or two

Ballroom-dancing club

  • number and type of people in the club → 30, mostly older, retired people
  • how long she has been a member → six months
  • when and where it meets → once a week, sometimes in a school hall
  • problems → they meet in the evenings after work and it can be quite hard to get yourself out of the house again
  • things they have learned → waltz, foxtrot, Latin dances like the jive and the tango