Cover of the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.3 - Let's do something new for the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Work in pairs and look at the website. Why is it called AlternativeCity?
  2. -
  3. Listen to the conversation. Which events do the people decide to go to?
  4. Work in pairs. Were your ideas in Exercise 2B correct? Tick the correct ideas and change the incorrect ones. Then listen again and check.

Answer

a)

Because the events are unusual or 'alternative' and different from the normal events in this type of events page.

c)

The museum meditation in the afternoon and the playback theatre in the evening.

d)

  1. silent disco → You choose the music and listen to it on headphones.
  2. blind date cinema → you buy a ticket but you don't know the film.
  3. improv playback theatre → People in the audience tell a story (about their lives) and the actors act it out.
  4. museum meditation → You meditate in a museum room, then you look at the exhibits and talk about them.