Cover of the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.4 - Changing trends for the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read this summary of the results of a class survey. Tick the opinions which are the same as the man's. Put an ✗ by the ones that are different.
  2. Read the summary again. Underline the phrases for talking about the whole group, and circle phrases for talking about part of the group.

Answer

a)

  • Price - Everyone said festivals are more expensive than before. ✓
  • Security - Some people said there's no change. ✗ The rest of the group said there's much more security now than five years ago. ✓
  • Fashion - Some people didn't have an opinion about fashion at festivals. ✓ A few people said people wore more interesting and colourful clothes in the past. ✗
  • Technology - Two students said the biggest changes were in technology, ✓ but most of the group said there's no change. x People found information and bought tickets on the internet five years ago, the same as now. ✗

b)

Talking about the whole group

  • Everybody said ...
  • Everyone said ...
  • People found ...

Talking about part of the group

  • Most people go ...
  • some go ...
  • only one of us goes ...
  • Some people said ...
  • The rest of the group said ...
  • Some people didn't have ...
  • A few people said ...
  • Two students said ...
  • most of the group said ...