Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Integrated Speaking

Synthesizing Information

Question 3

Practice 1

Reading and Conversation

Now listen to a conversation related to the passage in Step 1 As you listen, take notes and important information.

Write down five keywords or key phrases that would be useful in explaining this information to someone else.

Have you heard that they’re no longer going to provide us with printer paper in the lab?

Yeah, that’s too bad, you use the lab all the time to print out your papers, don’t you?

Yeah, I don’t know anyone who print out staff that’s not school-related, my friends and I are always printing out drafts of research papers or journal articles I don’t understand where the university got this idea that students don’t use the printers for schoolwork.

Yeah, I have no idea, but at least this’ll let them save money to buy more computers, now more students can use the lab.

Maybe, but I’m not so sure I think lots of students are going to stop using the computers they won’t want to use the lab if they have to bring their own paper.

Yeah That is a hassle.

And you remember that lab fee we have to pay at the beginning of the semester?

Students aren’t going to pay it when they don’t use the lab which means less money for stuff like new computers.

You’ve got a point, there.