Answer — Exercise 4
1 - A real buzz about the place·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
Question
Work in pairs. Compare your ideas. What cities do you think the speakers could be describing? Why? Which place would you rather live in? Why?
Answer
Conversation 1
Good
- it’s a wild place, the nightlife is crazy, the whole city is still buzzing at 4 in the morning
- the downtown is very vibrant – with all the skyscrapers and neon lights, etc.
Bad
- the traffic is terrible, it’s incredibly congested, the traffic just crawls along and it’s quicker to walk
- it’s very humid and hard to walk around there
- it’s very polluted
- the smog is terrible. You almost choke on the fumes when you’re outside.
Conversation 2
Good
- affluent (though this also contributes to it being boring!) and spotless
- good place to bring up kids
- spotlessly clean
- everything runs very smoothly
Bad
- very conservative and monied / affluent
- very dull
- not much going on, no music scene or anything