Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.4 - Differences for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Watch Part 2 of the interviews about whether people behave differently at work or college compared to with friends. Who speaks mainly about similarities (S) and who speaks mainly about similarities and differences (SD)?
  2. Watch again. What is each speaker referring to, and what do they mean, by the phrases below?

Answer

a)

  • Nicole → SD
  • Priscilla → SD (but she does say twice that she behaves the same way in both situations, i.e. informally)
  • Praneet → S
  • Charlie → SD

b)

  • Nicole → She means that with friends you can talk about anything, so it's relaxed and informal.
  • Priscilla → She calls the girl she babysits for 'girlfriend' or 'chica', as she does with her own friends - that's an indication of their informality.
  • Charlie → She's talking about being at work, when the need to focus creates a difference between that context and informal contexts.