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
Listen to four people talking about how they keep in touch. Match each speaker to the type of communication in Exercise 1.
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