Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 14 - My computer hates me for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Say which phone call (1-4) you think each sentence is from - and why. Then listen again and check your ideas.

Answer

  1. Conversation 4. Lots of other people in the company forget their password too.
  2. Conversation 2. He’s lost his files and hasn’t taken a back-up copy.
  3. Conversation 3. It’s annoying that she can’t print the files out.
  4. Conversation 1. The internet is down – he’s being sarcastic.
  5. Conversation 4. Everything is on computers and we all have too many passwords.
  6. Conversation 1. She’s just checking again that everything is connected.
  7. Conversation 3. He suggests running a security scan.
  8. Conversation 2. Didn’t understand what reboot meant