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Every time Wire! = my jedroor iheara clickand then ‘called my brother, but his wife said he was aliswatching TV. She askedimeto Jalon. while she called him to the phone. 7. My mam works athome, and she gets a lot of phone calls. Evgry time | call hes, ) have to hatdyon because she 232: Oust he Low 6a How do they respond? carl] Cele trast response for each phione expression. 1. tcan’thearyau. You're breaking up. ‘have another call. all me back later, 2. Pleaseleave amessage. Ai, Frank. This is Manny. Callmeuthome, b. Good-bye. 3 you hold on, please? ure, no problem, b. Igotcut off, 4. Oh, I'msony. think! have hewrong number, One moment, please. No problem. 5+ Goodimoming, Cambridge University Pies. é Would you like to leave a message? Could | speak to Sally smith, please? 6 Did you get my message? ‘Yeah, I think | did- b. No problem, a More than you! Grammac Complete the sentences with more, less, or fewer, 1. Nancy Wow! Lookat your inbox. it's full of junk mail. You get a lot__miore_junk mail than | do. Bill “know. 1 guess | geta lot of emails, generally, Look - $0 today. Nancy Yeah. | get about three or four a day. You geta lor_bi 410 \emaits than | do. 2. Julie My cell phone bill was feally high this month, | really need to make da Lfalls. or talk HAL than | do now. Look ~ itwas $65, Paula Actually, that's not bad. Mine was $95, My cell phone costs 22.6.0. than yours, 3. Dan You know, ! only had four text ‘messages last month. I'm getting foosta. text messages than phone calls. | guess people prefer to call ‘me these days, Eric Yeah? Actually | like instant messaging °° than talking, 4. Miki Ate you still working? You spena’).010_ time online than anyone! know, Lary 1 know. | reallyshould work (240. and spender) time with you and the kids, 5. Ben Oh, not The internet is down again! | need to change my intemet service provider to yours. You seem to have /21,V\ problems with your provider than | do. 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They want about your new job. me to work in thelr London office! That's amazing! Congratulations, Ellen! — RMT LT (Rumi Ce 2 1._Can you hold on @ minute’ C 1. OK, what were, you saying? 24 7 Lp &Oy ie bad a% > uo baie Dhak Asan | a wn \w 2 Ap ‘ Madre haw ‘ 5 Sgn an ahh. B Complete the conversations with the expres than one correct answer. \ 1. Nolan Akemi Nolan 2. Abby Kyle ‘Abby 3, Muriel Brett Muriel Hi, Akemi! [have some good news, ‘Oh, I'm sorrys Sure, go ahead. Kyle, it’s Abby. Justa second. twas saying, I'm at Hey, it’s me. I'm calling becaus my briefcase. You're calling b Oh, yes, I'm wor I'm at the supermarket and. ,. havetotumot the. WX WAT 44 AZv the supermarket. Can you come pick me up? jecause you're king late. Ill be home around nine tonight pu 2 Ihave another call. 'm - oops! Hold op, dropped L BID ML / ’ .ssions from the chart above. Sometimes there is more wersation-@,_ I just needto... ‘rwritlen [Ads justto the sentences tomake them softer, 1. Ineed to askyou a few questions. 2. Sure, Can you wait a minute? 4. Ihave to answer the door, 4. Could you hold on a second? 5. Ineed to turn off the faucet. & Soity. Ineedta take anothercall, © eh...) % *m calling to find out about your test-( |» > 8. (have to tell you one thing. h a Hold on a second ‘STatepes [Imagine a fiend calls. Follow the instructions ‘conversation ‘sategies| and complete Use just where possible. in You Hello? Friend Mi Wramel ey, twas just calling totellyou, this weekend there's... You can you hold on a 5 tit Se aes jo ‘Restart Friend twas just calling to tell you about m Stet > You Great. So, what's the special a aly Atoll. j Ke Friend You Hi. eee So, ll al ae Friend My pany >this weekend, : ne ’ Toainer the dome) as . TAO Sorry So, are you having a birthday party? 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That is the basic idea of crowdsourcing ~ using a large: group of volunteers to work together on a project The word crowdsourcing is a. combination ot the words crowd and outsource Crowdsourced websites, such as wikis and social networking sites, are some of the most successhu Internet organizations. Wikis offer milions of people free online information on a variety ot topics. Almost 100,000 volunteers from around the world write and edit the topics in many ferent tanguages. Socid! networking websites: also use Crowdsourcing They connect users to Wikis are 8omé of the most vitited wetites in the world. However many cntics dhaporove of ‘their structure. They argue vok.nteers don have the expertise to write about some topes They also claim a lot Of Wie articins are pooety written. Another ise is that wits ar} societ nétwork size, Some wikis anc foci networkung websites fad because they donothave aig |) en9ugh crowd to provide Much interasneg information Crowdeoyrcing has some problems. On the other Tt shows that When lots of Pdkocwats contrite a ‘email amount of tine anf energy. & Quickly Sekt up to atigniticant romut B Read the articte again. Write T (true) or F (talse) for each sentence. Then comect the false sentences. 1. Outsourcing means using somebody inside a rushes oven, 17 2. Wikis don’t pay people to write articies for them. ___ 3. Almost 10,000 people around the world write articles for wikis. a Social networking websites need large crowds to succeed.* Growdsourcing has pros and cons, but © 280 has significant resutts. (7b Crowdsourcing means using a large group of volunteers to complete a project. Beople tree information, news, and op»nions often not available in traditional media. However, information is not always correct 0” Crowdsourced websites, and their crowds 27 not always large enough to be useful. 4 Conctusion (A A B Writea shor article on a popular crowdsourc ing website. Include an introduction, the advantages, the disadvantages, and a c ‘onclusion, —*s-veny popula: these days oer J rca pera cais Pra rn Ic ES Wy aconclusion a ATS felt ae Masi