Answer — Exercise 3
8.2 - Out of print?·Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book
Question
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- Listen to the programme. Were your answers to question 1 similar to the professor's? Does the professor give the same reasons as you for question 2?
- Read the questions and make notes on anything you remember. Listen again and check. Add any information missing from your notes.
Answer
b)
(Professor's ideas)
- a) print, because '[it] gives us the opportunity to concentrate' b) both c) print, because of the physical connection
c)
- Pros → the smell and touch of a book, it's 'real reading'; Cons → heavy / weigh a lot
- Skimming scanning and scrolling
- Readers took as much time as they wanted to read a text before a test. Some read print and some read e-readers.
- Students who read the e-book version spent less time reading and did worse in the comprehension test.
- 'getting involved in' = not wanting to be distracted; 'being drawn in' = have the rest of the world disappear; getting lost in the book.
- Because they are physically connected to the book.