Cover of the textbook Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 11.1 - Keeping in touch for the textbook Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to four people talking about how they keep in touch. Match each speaker to the type of communication in Exercise 1.
  2. What benefits of these communication technologies do the speakers mention? What negative points? Listen again to check.

Answer

a)

  • Speaker 1 → text messages
  • Speaker 2 → Skype
  • Speaker 3 → a blog
  • Speaker 4 → social networking sites

b)

Benefits

  • Speaker 1 → quick and cheap; texts are quiet
  • Speaker 2 → can see his grandchildren; it's free
  • Speaker 3 → a great way to tell people about your travel experiences; you can put up photos of the people you meet and the places you visit; as soon as you write the blog, people all over the world can read it
  • Speaker 4 → found friends she hadn't seen for years and it was great to get in touch again

Negative points

  • Speaker 1 → gets annoyed when you're talking to someone and they're texting someone else
  • Speaker 2 → internet sometimes crashes during the phone call or he can't see the picture properly
  • Speaker 3 → can't do it if they can't find an internet café
  • Speaker 4 → keeps checking it when she should be working