Daily IELTS Answers – Communication (Part 3 – Band 8.5)

1. Do you prefer chatting face to face or texting? 

Well it really depends, if you’re talking about hanging out with friends that I haven’t seen for ages, or if it’s an important occasions where a lot of people get together to celebrate a very important event in our lives, then I would definitely love to engage in a conversation with people around me. However, there are lots of occasions when chatting face to face is impossible. For example, most of my best friends are not living in Taiwan, so I can only text them. Sometimes if you have business partners overseas, you can only use conference calls or text messages to contact with vendors outside of Taiwan, so it depends on the situation.

• Collocation / Phrasal Verb: to hang out with friends – spend time, enjoy time, relax with friends
• Collocation: engage in a conversation – start and maintain a conversation with someone

2. Do you think men chat more than women? 

I think this is probably one of the most controversial and provocative questions that wants to raise the issues of gender differences. It depends on the situation again, if you’re talking about the topics that a lot of men take interest in, like technology, cars, gadgets, racing events, things like that, or airplanes, I’ve seen many online forums or podcasts where men and male audiences get involved and exchange ideas on these topics, and even the hosts are men. Whereas, with women, we tend to talk about topics that are more related to our daily lives or our feelings, so when women get together we tend to talk about what we’ve been up to, relationships, marriage, children, beauty, fashion things like that are more personal. So if you’re talking to a man about cosmetics, I don’t think they will be very talkative, but if you’re talking to a woman, they can talk at length about it.

• Vocabulary: racing events – horse racing, motor racing, marathons, bicycle races etc.
• Phrase: to talk at length about something – to talk for a long time, or in great detail about a topic
• Vocabulary: talkative (adj.) – a person who enjoys talking a lot

3. Why are social networks so popular nowadays? 

As I said before, there are many occasions where face to face communication isn’t possible so social networking sites help people stay connected with friends and family in other parts of the world. So even if they don’t live together, you can still stay up to date with what they do through the posts they upload. Also, social media sites like Facebook, YouTube Instagram have already created a lot more opportunities to people who really want to express themselves, so we know there is a new job title called an ‘influencer’ or ‘YouTuber‘, and there was no such thing as that 10 years ago, but now they are just all over the place, they can make money and express themselves, so now it has become one of the most popular areas that young people want to go into. So I would say with social media some people feel empowered because they probably don’t get the opportunity to go on TV shows and show what they can do, but they can do through social media sites, so those are 2 reasons why social media is so popular nowadays.

• Phrase: stay up to date with – stay updated or be aware of the latest news (friends / news / gossip)
• Phrase: there was no such thing as + noun – that didn’t exist before
• Preposition: on TV

4. How can encourage shy children to talk more? 

I think from personal experience, people are more willing to talk about what they are interested in. If they have the passion for it, you don’t have to force them. First of all, as parents or as a teacher, if you just want to encourage your shy friends, you have to spend some time exploring what they are interested in and start conversations with them that are related to their interests and show that you are really curious about how much he or she knows in that field. It’s very motivating, because people can tell when you are being sincere about wanting to know what someone knows. It applies to any kind of person. 

• Collocation: spend time with someone
• Collocation: start conversations – begin or instigate conversation

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Thanks to You Shan for the answers.

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