Face-to-face communication vs. emails or phone calls

[Kattie]

Face-to-face communication vs. emails or phone calls

Today world is moving at a faster pace with advance technology. Nowadays people can communicate with each other from any corner of the earth with help of technology. Earlier people believed in face to face communication but ,since past decades, we have phone calls or emails to communicate with others. I believe in using new technology, therefore, I prefer to use emails and phone calls to communicate for several reasons.

First of all, everyone is busy with their own life. They can stay connected with each other people without wasting their precious time through these options. For example, when I was applying to schools for my bachelor degree at same time i was doing my part time job. I used to send my all the documents through e-mail that was very convenient for me rather than going there in and giving them in hand. It saved my time and money too.

Secondly, we can communicate at faster speed with aid of phone calls and emails. In face to face communication, we have to give special time to particular task. For instance, once I wanted to go for shopping in Macy’s store. I was unknown about their opening hours. That time I asked them via cell phone. In this way, I utilized my time to go and look for its open hours, and got quick response too.

However, there is an importance of the face to face communication in certain situations. We cannot see the expressions of the person via phone calls and emails. As I said earlier, with the advent of the technology we can do that also. For example, whenever I want to see my newborn nephew in India, I can use Face time or Skype to see him playing, crying and laughing. In this way, staying in abroad I can communicate my family members easily without any trouble.

To conclude, I would like to prefer phone calls and emails to communicate rather face to face communications as they are easy, convenient, time saving and quick ways of the communications and keeps us connected at global level without any efforts.

TOEFL listening discussions: A conversation between two students at their university cafeteria

[Luschen]

Hi Kattie, I thought your essay was pretty good. You have some good ideas and have communicated them pretty effectively. Expanding your examples and adding some more details would be good though. Your writing is fairly clear, but you do have a lot of mistakes in grammar and sentence structure, which makes a lot of your essay sound pretty unnatural. Overall, I would rate this a 3 out of 5.

@Kattie

Face-to-face communication vs. emails or phone calls

Today [the] world is moving at a faster {“faster” than what? I realize you mean than in the past, but this sounds a bit odd here} pace with advance[d ] technology. Nowadays people can communicate with each other from any corner of the earth with [the] help of technology. Earlier[In the past,] {“earlier” sounded a bit odd - are you talking about “early people” or earlier in time?} people believed in face to face[face-to-face] communication[,] but ,{no comma here}since past decades,{“since” requires a specific time, not a range of time} we have phone calls or emails to communicate with others. I believe in using new technology[;] therefore, I prefer to use emails and phone calls to communicate for several reasons. {I would leave out the “for several reasons” or give a very short summary of your reasons}

First of all, everyone is busy with their own life. They can stay connected with each other people without wasting their precious time through[by using] these options. {before it sounded like the options were causing the waste of time} For example, when I was applying to schools for my bachelor[s ] degree[,] at [the] same time i was doing[“working” might be better here} my part time job. I used to send my all the [my] documents through e-mail that was very convenient for me rather than going there in [person] and giving them in hand. {“in hand” is wrong here}It saved my time and money too. {what about mailing them? surely you would not hand-deliver documents to far away colleges}

Secondly, we can communicate at [a ]faster speed with [the] aid of phone calls and emails. In face to face {hyphens} communication, we have to give special time {“special time” is a bit unclear here} to [a ]particular task. For instance, once I wanted to go for shopping in [a ]Macy’s store.{or "shopping at Macy’s} I was unknown about [I did not know] {or “I was ignorant of their opening hours”, but this might sound a little odd} their opening hours. That time I asked them via cell phone. In this way, I utilized my time [efficiently] to go and look for its open[operating] hours, and got [a ]quick response too.

However, there is an importance of the face to face communication in certain situations. We cannot see the expressions of the person via phone calls and emails. As I said earlier, with the advent of the [modern] technology [,]we can do that also. For example, whenever I want to see my newborn nephew in India, I can use Face time or Skype to see him playing, crying and laughing. In this way, staying in abroad I can [still] communicate my family members easily without any trouble.

To conclude, I would like to prefer phone calls and emails to communicate rather [than] face to face communications as they are easy, convenient, time saving and quick ways of the communicatio[n ] and kee[p ] us connected at [a ]global level {“global level” sounds a bit unclear here} without any efforts. {“with little effort” seems more realistic}

TOEFL listening discussions: A conversation between two students at their university cafeteria