Speaking Test – Part 1 – Keeping in contact with people
Topic – Keeping in contact with people:
Q. How do you usually contact your friends? [Why?]
Answer: I usually contact my friends by phone or email if they are far from me because it is more convenient and easy than meeting them in person. However, if my friends live within the close proximity of where I live, I always try to meet them in person because the practice helps create a stronger bond of friendship.
Q. Do you prefer to contact different people in different ways? [Why?]
Answer: No, I don’t try to contact different people in different ways. My preferred method of contacting people, be them my friends, family members or relatives, is to call them on their phones because it helps me to convey my message and feeling in a more direct and effective manner. Of course, if there is a situation where no phone number is listed to reach, and if somebody prefers me to contact him/her in email for more formal reasons, then I don’t mind using email to contact.
Q. Do you find it easy to keep in contact with friends and family? [Why/Why not?]
Answer: With the advent of mobile phones and the internet, contacting friends and families has certainly become very, very easy. In fact, contacting with friends and family has become much more personal also these days because we can not only talk with them but also “view” them at the same time on our phones or computers, no matter whether they live next door or in another corner of the world.
Q. In your country, did people in the past keep in contact in the same ways as they do today? [Why/Why not?]
Answer: No, people in my country didn’t exactly keep in contact with each other in the same ways in the past as they do today. In fact, in the past and before the arrival of smartphones and the internet, people used to contact each other via postal mails and land phones. And, if there was a situation where one would need to contact the others on an urgent basis in the past, people would choose to take the help of “telegram” as well.
