Answer — Exercise 2
11.1 - Keeping in touch·Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book
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