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The key answer of exercise 9

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.1 - Low tech solutions for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at the underlined words and phrases in the essay. Put them in the correct place in the table.
  2. Underline the correct alternatives.

Answer

a)

introduce advantages

  • The most important advantage is ...
  • One of the main advantages ...

introduce disadvantages

  • The main disadvantage is ...
  • The problem is that ...

contrasting ideas

  • Although, ...
  • However, ...

additional reasons

  • As well as that, ...
  • And another thing, ...
  • In addition ...
  • Another disadvantage

personal opinion / conclusion

  • In general, ...
  • As far as I'm concerned, ...
  • In my opinion, ...

b)

  1. The main advantage
  2. in addition to this
  3. However,
  4. On the other hand
  5. This means that
  6. In my opinion
  7. However,