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Speaking Question 5

Listen to a conversation between the two student editors of a photography magzine called campus photo monthly.

Man: We are in trouble, Barbara. I don’t think we can put together next month’s issue. There just aren’t enough good photos.

Woman: It’s getting harder and harder to put together an issue.

Man: Yeah. And this month is the worst ever! I don’t get it. I mean, students are submitting lots of photographs, but I think we’ve only got fifteen that are worth publishing. And we can’t print the magazine with only fifteen photographs.

Woman: Well, maybe we’re being too selective. What if we use photos that maybe aren’t great, but…

Man: But that aren’t horrible?

Woman: Right. I mean some of these photographs we get from beginning photographers may not be the best. But if we lowered our standards just a bit, we’d have a lot more photos to publish.

Man: Sure. But we’d have to be careful. We don’t want to get a reputation for publishing low-quality work.

Woman: Well…maybe…you know, maybe we are just publishing too frequently. What if we stop publishing every month and instead, you know, if we just published every two months, we’d have a lot more submissions to choose from so we could pick and choose and still publish only the good ones.

Man: I guess. But people on campus sort of expect us to publish every month. I mean, we are Campus Photo Monthly, aren’t we?