Cover of the textbook Roadmap A2 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10D - English in action for the textbook Roadmap A2 - Student's Book with authors Lindsay Warwick and Damian Williams from Pearson Education

Question

Listen to the pairs of compliments. Which one is better, A or B? Why?

Answer

  1. A
  2. B
  3. B
  4. A

They use intonation so that they sound like they mean what they say. When the speaker doesn't use the correct intonation, they sound rude and it doesn't sound like they are giving a compliment.