Answer — Exercise 4
1 - A real buzz about the place·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
Câu hỏi
Work in pairs. Compare your ideas. What cities do you think the speakers could be describing? Why? Which place would you rather live in? Why?
Câu trả lời
Conversation 1
Good
- it’s a wild place, the nightlife is crazy, the whole city is still buzzing at 4 in the morning
- the downtown is very vibrant – with all the skyscrapers and neon lights, etc.
Bad
- the traffic is terrible, it’s incredibly congested, the traffic just crawls along and it’s quicker to walk
- it’s very humid and hard to walk around there
- it’s very polluted
- the smog is terrible. You almost choke on the fumes when you’re outside.
Conversation 2
Good
- affluent (though this also contributes to it being boring!) and spotless
- good place to bring up kids
- spotlessly clean
- everything runs very smoothly
Bad
- very conservative and monied / affluent
- very dull
- not much going on, no music scene or anything