Answer — Exercise 5
1.3 - Sharing economy?·Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book
Pytanie
Look at the sentences in Exercise 3A. How could you chunk (group) the phrases? Mark the places where you think there are natural pauses between chucks.
Odpowiedź
- On the whole, / people expressed a curiosity about businesses / that had less relevance for them.
- To cite one example, / people who don't have pets / tended to be particularly interested / in getting information about the pet-related services.
- Our impression / was simply that these businesses / had some novelty for them ...
- ... and their interest / presumably reflected amusement / more than a genuine desire / to use the service.
- Another illustration of this / Is the number of people / who asked for more information / about the parking services, who, / as it turned out, / don't actually have a car.
- Generally speaking though, .. there was limited interest / in trying out [services] that the survey participants / hadn't used in the past.
- The consensus seems to be / that people are partial to what they already use / or know about.
- One might speculate / that this reflects human nature.