Class listening

Tapescript 1

School Uniform

Pre-listening:

You will hear 4 people speaking about different uniforms.

1.1.Before listening, pay attention to the following words and phrases:

1. To direct the traffic;

2. To guard a building;

3. A matter of hygiene;

4. To take up a profession;

5. A flowery dress.

1.2.Guess what the wearers of the uniforms might be.

1.3.Try to predict the speakers’ attitudes to wearing a uniform.

After-listening:

2.1.Mark the statements true (T) or false (F):

• Speaker 1 loved wearing a school uniform.

• Speaker 1 thinks clothes are very personal and show one’s individuality.

• Speaker 1’s trainers were quite expensive.

• Wearing a uniform for speaker 2 is not obligatory.

• Without the uniform speaker 2 can’t do his job properly.

• It’s equally important to look clean and to be clean for speaker 3.

• Speaker 3 thinks the uniform irritates especially the young and the old.

• Wearing the uniform makes speaker 3 feel proud.

• Speaker 4 mustn’t go too far wearing any clothes she likes.

• Speaker 4 goes to the dentist twice a week.

2.2.Choose the wrong item of clothing speaker 1 wore to his friend’s birthday party:

a. a pair of jeans	c. trainers
b. a turtleneck	d. a T-shirt

2.3.Try to make a guess where Speaker 2 lives:

a. New York	c. Boston
b. London	d. Oxford

2.4.Fill in the missing word: (short-sleeved, trainers, flowery dress, appearance, casual clothes)

• Wearing a new pair of …. I feel comfortable.

• Everyone was wearing …..- you know, nothing very smart.

• In summer we are allowed to wear a ……shirt.

• I was wearing a….. and the news just got lost in the colours!

• When the whole country is looking at you, you’ve got to be careful about your …..

2.5.Who used the words and phrases mentioned in task 1.1.?

1
2
3
4
5

2.6.Answer the questions:

• Which way did speaker 1 feel about wearing his school uniform?

• What did the tourist from Italy ask speaker 2?

• Why did the girl rush in panic to speaker 2?

• Why does the uniform make speaker 3 feel bitter?

• What sort of message did speaker 4 get through her earphones?

2.7.Name the characters’ real professions.

2.8.Express your own attitude to the necessity of wearing a uniform for people of the above-mentioned professions.

2.9.Make-up a dialogue between a policeman/doctor and the interviewer based on the information you’ve just heard

Tapescript 2

I Look Like a Sack of Potatoes

Pre-listening:

You will hear 2 people who choose some clothes for a date

1.1.Before listening, pay attention to the following words and phrases: