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
- 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.
- 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 ...
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