opposite to something. Having nice memories is a kind of cure to sadness.
Female: OK, maybe you’re right. Male: So, what about the last one? This one is difficult. I’ve put true. I think that the extract is saying that people who don’t think about the past are like leaves blown in the wind. They have no roots.
Female: Mm, I think that’s the idea, but it doesn’t actually state that these people are all directionless. It says that, ‘nostalgia can motivate people’. It’s one of those statements that are a bit misleading. I think when there are modal verbs like can or might the answer is often NG.
Male: OK, let’s check the answers.
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C Listen to some people talking about the topics in the three tasks. Match each speaker with one of the tasks A, B or C. Speaker 1 Voice: Well, I don’t really see how anyone can complain about using them at work. They do everything in a tenth of the time it used to take. I can’t imagine people going back to typewriters and waiting three days for a letter to arrive.
Speaker 2 Voice: Actually, I think this has a lot to do with women going out to work. I know I won’t be popular saying this, but it’s obvious. If women are out all day, they don’t have time to cook proper meals. The kids come in from school and get a meal out of the freezer or grab something from a takeaway.
Speaker 3 Voice: They’ve just got to improve public transport. People use their cars because they’re so much more comfortable than buses and the underground. They can listen to music or the news on the radio and they travel door to door. Even if the journey takes a bit longer, people feel it’s more convenient and often safer too.
Speaker 4 Voice: I’m not sure it really is that big a problem. There might be some kids who only eat burgers and pizzas, but not the ones I know. Mine eat as much in the way of fruit and vegetables as I did. I’m pretty sure most of their friends do too. I think the media just make up these issues to scare people.
Speaker 5 Voice: Mm, I do think that a lot of people spend too long online these days. What with the gossip pages, chat rooms and shopping sites, they’re never away from the screen. I’m sure it’s affecting the way people
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relate to one another. Nobody actually talks anymore and what they look at has no real cultural value.
Speaker 6 Voice: I think there should be some sort of incentive to share journeys and pick up passengers. It doesn’t make sense for so many individuals to sit there in their metal box. When we come in on the motorway, we can’t believe the number of vehicles coming past us the other way with just the driver.
Speaker 7 Voice: Well, like all things, there are pros and cons, but surely the pros outweigh the cons. I mean, they’re just sophisticated machines and, frankly, we’ve always lived with machines. I guess we rely on them a bit too much – if anything suddenly made them all crash, we’d be in trouble, but that’s unlikely. I do worry about what my kids look at on the internet, but that’s my only real concern.
Speaker 8 Voice: When I was a lad, we used to nag our parents to take us to McDonald’s or Burger King, but it wasn’t all the time. Nowadays, there are so many different chains all selling more or less the same thing – they’re everywhere and I’m sure a lot of teenagers live on that junk.
Speaker 9 Voice: I think they have to have some kind of city centre ban – you know, stop people driving into the centre or at least charge them if they do. They have to make it so that people don’t want to drive – so that driving actually becomes inconvenient. Only then will people walk or take the bus.
Speaker 10 Voice: It does worry me a bit when I think about how far things could go. Would we ever need to leave the house? I mean, we could all end up sitting there all day and all night tuned into some fantasy world where we can be whoever we want and be doing whatever we want. Who wants real life if that’s possible?
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Unit 4 Consolidation – Speaking
B Listen and check your answers. Voice: When you are speaking with the examiner, he or she will listen and make a note of the vocabulary you use. However, you shouldn’t worry about this. You can only use words and phrases you know and you shouldn’t try to impress the examiner. If you try too hard to use the words and phrases that you don’t really know, you’ll use them incorrectly or inappropriately and you won’t sound natural. At the
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