Corrections please, I'm going to do the CAE exam in few days!! Advantages of digital and computer technology in everyday life Digital and computer technology have enormously changed people’s lives. People use new technology everyday and probably lot of them can’t live without it. Nowadays, almost everyone has a mobile phone, a computer or a tablet. But how the use of these devices has influenced people in their everyday lives? Has it influenced in a good or in a bad way?. Well, this last question is difficult to answer and I shouldn’t generalise, so in my opinion computer technology has influenced people in both ways. Firstly, new technology has changed the way we communicate with other people. Few decades ago the only way possible to communicate with others was by telephone or letter. Send a letter was a slower way to communicate than the telephone, but also more personal. Telephones were connected inside the houses and the majority of families couldn’t afford one, so they had to go to someone’s house to make a call. Indeed, making a call was faster than sending a letter, but you didn’t have real privacy. However, now everyone owns a mobile phone, so you don’t need to share it with anyone and be worried about whether someone is listen to your conversation. Also, you can carry it everywhere and send messages or make calls whenever you want. Secondly, another advantage of computer technology is being able to shop online and to have a huge variety of services. That means you can usually get things cheaper, faster and easier than in a normal shop because using a website companies reduce costs and it is reflected on the price. We can also avoid long queues when shopping in a store unlike online shopping. To summarise, in my opinion digital and computer technology have made easy to buy things and have helped us to communicate with family and friends, or communicate through devices at least, because one thing we can notice nowadays is that almost everyone uses their phones instead of having a normal conversation. As I said before, it is difficult to say whether the influence is good or bad and, anyway, I'm not going to criticise people’s behavior, everyone should decide the kind of lifestyle they want to have.

Replying to a friend's message Dear Caroline, It's good to hear from you again. I'm really sorry for the delay in writing you back, but I've been very busy the last couple of weeks. As you know, I’m working and studying english at the same time, and I haven’t got a proper break until now. My boss asked me to do a project and I’ve been working on it since then. I usually work better under pressure, so I finished it the same day which the deadline was. To be quite honest, I read your message few days ago, but I’ve been doing such a lot of things that I completely forgot to reply you before. I hope you could forgive me for that. I’ve been thinking about doing the CAE exam and finally I decided to book it. Now that I've finished the project I can focus on improving my english. The exam is a bit difficult but I hope I can pass it. What about you? Do you have any plans after you finish your training at the hotel? Do you like working at the recepción desk or would you like to work somewhere else? I know you well and I think you must enjoy being at the reception desk, talking and meeting new people everyday. Have you got any plans for this holidays? I’ve been thinking of visiting Maria this summer and it would be nice if you come with us and be all gathered again. Let me know what do you think about it. Kind regards Veronica

The importance of keeping in touch with people Humans are sociable, therefore, people like having the company of other people to talk about their life’s issues and to share their feelings and thoughts with someone else. In my opinion it’s very important to keep in touch with people, not only because is our nature, but also because it’s good for keeping our minds healthy and not having physiological problems. Moreover, there are lots of stories about people who have been alone for a long time as a consequence of a catastrophe, such as a shipwrecked survivor on a isolated island, and they end up developing a strange behavior. These are the reasons I think people need to be in touch with their family, friends and to meet new people. Nowadays keeping in touch with people is easier than before. Thanks to new technology, we can send messages through the social media to people all over the world, and they will receive these messages in a few seconds. But not only messages, we can also share pictures and live videos, having the possibility of watching the person you are talking to. Some decades ago it was unimaginable, and it took a long time to communicate with someone, even more if the person was living in other country. I’ve been living in different countries and I know firsthand how much do I miss my family and friends when I'm far away from home and the importance of keeping in touch with the people you care about. Is because of that I find the social media absolutely necessary to keep in touch with the people I love.