Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.4 - Generation rent for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

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  2. Listen to two people planning a co-living space. Make notes on.
  3. Listen again. Underlined the alternative you hear.

Answer

b)

  • Who the space is for → : musicians
  • Why they chose that group → they have friends who are musicians and they struggle to find a space to rehearse and develop new music.
  • What facilities and services the space has → soundproofed bedrooms for private rehearsal, a few big rehearsal spaces, communal kitchen, dining room doubling as a performance space with a stage and an acoustic ceiling, cinema with amazing sound system
  • Any problems they anticipate → neighbours might have issue with noise and type of people living there, personality clashes (probably over musical tastes)
  • Proposed solutions → free concerts, music lessons for locals, on-site mediator

c)

  • addresses
  • double
  • would seem
  • consideration
  • attention
  • an issue
  • solve the public relations problem
  • Knowing
  • kinks
  • hiccups