miércoles, 6 de abril de 2016

Bookshops are back - because you can't meet a partner on your kindle

Key – Bookshops are back
Question 1
a.  FalseLibreria, in the East End of London, which is 830 square feet of books, and more books. Its wooden display units are on wheels so that the floor space can be opened up ...
b.  False.   It’s got a whisky bar too and a printing press in the basement that might one day publish its own titles.
c.  Truethe Waterstones on Tottenham Court Road has its own cinema.
d.  True.  High street clothes and gifts stores such as Oliver Bonas and Urban Outfitters have for their part created “book spots” on their shop floors.

Question 2
a.  Bookshops are romantic according to classic films because in them, people spend time there, walking round in a relaxed way, meeting fascinating people for the first time, chatting them up, purchasing books, having a coffee, starting a relationship which ends in disaster, then returning to the bookshop.
b.  Digital books are quick and easy to buy and are also a lot cheaper.

Question 3
a.  defunct     b.  (to) bother   c.  lure   d.  revamp    e.  (to) surpass/surpassed

Question 4
a.   The e-book is being chosen by more and more readers.
b.  If the physical didn’t have something, (then) people wouldn’t come inside.

c.  The writer said that she hoped that in years to come, couples would be telling their friends how they had met in that old bookshop in 2016!

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