MALE STUDENT: Hey, what do you think about this idea?
FEMALE STUDENT: Well, it sounds great, but I don’t actually think it would work very well.
MALE STUDENT: Oh, really?
FEMALE STUDENT: Yeah… I mean, I get what he’s saying, but I don’t think he’s thought about the problems with that kind of thing.
MALE STUDENT: No?
FEMALE STUDENT: No… I’m worried about the books—it’d be really easy to spill something on them accidentally, and then they could get ruined… and some of them are really expensive.
MALE STUDENT: Yeah, even if people tried to be careful that would probably happen sometimes.
FEMALE STUDENT: Exactly. And the other thing is, we already have the convenience store in the student center, which sells that same kind of stuff.
MALE STUDENT: That’s true…
FEMALE STUDENT: And the student center is actually much closer to the academic buildings where classes are held… the bookstore is all the way on the other side of campus; it’s not close to the buildings where students are taking classes. So I don’t think students would really go there between classes the way he says.
The woman expresses her opinion about the proposal described in the letter. Briefly summarize the proposal. Then state her opinion about the proposal and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.
The proposal is that the campus bookstore should offer drinks and snacks to sale.
The woman doesn’t think that it’ll work.
For one, the books are easily ruined if there’s some drink spilled on them. They are quite expensive, so people won’t do as suggested in the letter, and even though people try to be careful, things would still happen like this. For another, the place of the student center is very close to the academic building and it offers drinks and snacks, so students probably would go there for food between classes instead of the campus bookstore, which is on the other side of the campus and not close to the academic building at all.
