Listening: How Do You Use the Internet

You will hear five people talking about how they use the Internet. Listen to the recording and fill in the gaps with the missing word/s:

SPEAKER 1

His friends told him it was easy to use but it took him ages to get the hold of the Internet. He supposes the more you use it the _____________ 1 you get. For him, it's a very environmentally ______________ 2 thing. He mainly uses it for _______________ 3 news or reference with his favourite search _____________ 4. 

SPEAKER 2

She is addicted to ________/________ 5 as it's very easy to talk to people. This is how she _________/____/________ 6 with her friends and family. For the time being she has regular chatting with her brother in Thailand. She says it's almost as good as the phone but so much __________ 7. Although she chatted with unknown people she hasn't made any friends because for her it's a bit ___________ 8 since you don't know anything about people.

SPEAKER 3

She uses the Internet for getting information, news, __________9, but the best thing is tracking down people she was at school with since there are quite a few _________ 10 now for doing so. She has already found three people that were in the same class as her in __________/__________ 11. She's also in contact with someone she was at university with but who lives in the USA.

SPEAKER 4

He mainly uses it for music apart from _____________ 12 sport results on the net. It's a good way to ____________ 13 mp3 files which you can later on burn into your own CDs almost for nothing. Although the music industry is against this practice, it has not got only the advantage that it's free but it's also ___________ 14 quick.

SPEAKER 5

She _______/____/________ 15 with the Internet the first time she used it. She heard an incredible CD on the radio and she wanted to have it. But since the music shops said they didn't have it, but a specialist shop in London told her it was only ____________ 16 as an import. That's when she tried the Internet, so she _______/_____ 17 the name of the band and found a list of their recordings and was finally able to buy it and receive it by ________ 18.   

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