Listening Challenge
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CONTENTS |
DiagnosticTest |
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Part One |
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Unit 1 .............................................................................................................. |
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Unit 2 .............................................................................................................. |
22 |
Unit 3 .............................................................................................................. |
28 |
Unit 4 .............................................................................................................. |
34 |
U n its .............................................................................................................. |
38 |
Test One............................................................................................................ |
45 |
PartTuio |
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Unitl .............................................................................................................. |
47 |
Unit 2 .............................................................................................................. |
53 |
U nit3 .............................................................................................................. |
59 |
Unit 4 .............................................................................................................. |
65 |
Unit 5 .............................................................................................................. |
71 |
TestTujo.............................................................................................. |
77 |
Part Three |
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Unit 1 .............................................................................................................. |
79 |
Unit 2 .............................................................................................................. |
85 |
U n it3 .............................................................................................................. |
90 |
Unit 4 .............................................................................................................. |
96 |
Unit 5 ............................................................................................................. |
100 |
Test Three....................................................................................................... |
107 |
Final Test....................................................................................................... |
109 |
Answer Key and Script.................................................................... |
113 |
Cnglish Vouiel Phonemes
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Mixed |
Back |
1. listen to the words and unite them down. Please, try to concentrate on listening to each word, first, you can practise doing it for a b it Vou are going to hear 58 words with a pause
after each one. Don't worry about the speffing of the words - you can transcribe it The most important thing to keep in mind b the way the words are pronounced. CnjoyyourBsteningl
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Finally listen to the text about «(Dinners and Losers». The text Is recorded twice. |
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recording is for listening only. Vour task is to listen to the text and try to |
understand os much os you con. The second recording of the text contains pauses long enough for you to w rite down every single sentence of the text.
After doing this you may check the script and count the percent of correctly comprehended words.
Cxercise 1. Listen and repeat the ujords uuith short vouiels.
million |
woman |
Britain |
would |
simple |
stood |
think |
room |
six |
took |
question |
Monday |
twenty |
Russia |
health |
public |
well |
just |
red |
one |
language |
foreign |
chapter |
office |
back |
often |
plan |
copy |
tax |
lot |
Cxercise 2. Listen to the ujords and ujrite them douun.
Cxercise 3. Listen and repeat the uiords. Mind the length and the stressed vouuel of each uuord.
bit |
full |
system |
looking |
list |
could |
English |
project |
give |
goods |
very |
common |
ten |
should |
seven |
knowledge |
help |
job |
second |
money |
fact |
cost |
value |
number |
thank |
strong |
having |
coming |
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thus |
practice |
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Cxercise 5. listen and repeat the ujords containing short vouuel sounds.
/1/ |
/е/ |
/и/ |
think |
red |
could |
simply |
help |
stood' |
million |
health |
goods |
Britain |
very |
should |
system |
question |
woman |
/ае/ |
/Л/ |
/Э/ |
tax |
one |
job |
back |
son |
was |
chapter |
public |
want |
practice |
Russia |
often |
language |
hundred |
foreign |
Cxercise 6. listen and шl1te each uuord under the appropriate stressed vouuel symbol. €.g.
/-L / |
/e / |
/ u / |
bit |
wtll |
rutna |
/ае/ |
/ л / |
/ э / |
склрЫг |
just |
cast |
1.That butter is bitter / better.
2.Are those pens / pans still in stock?
3.This cap / cup is too expensive for me.
4.Watch out! Your bus / boss is approaching!
5.He gave me a hard lock / look.
Listen and practise the rhyme with the sounds / 3 / and / 0 /.
There were thirteen fathers of Perth,
And this Ruth, is what they were worth:
Thirty thousand, together;
Though in thundery weather
They thrust all their wealth in the earth.
Cxercise 8. Listen and repeat the sentences. Mind the tense of each sentence.
1.Mike speaks a foreign language.
2.Mike is speaking a foreign language.
3.Mike has been speaking a foreign language.
4.Mike has spoken a foreign language.
5.Mike spoke a foreign language.
6.Mike was speaking a foreign language.
7.Mike had spoken a foreign language.
8.Mike had been speaking a foreign language.
9.Mike will speak a foreign language.
10.Mike will be speaking a foreign language.
11.Mike will have spoken a foreign language.
12.Mike will have been speaking a foreign language.
13.A foreign language is spoken by Mike.
14.A foreign language is being spoken by Mike.
15.A foreign language has been spoken by Mike.
16.A foreign language was spoken by Mike.
17.A foreign language was being spoken by Mike.
18.A foreign language had been spoken by Mike.
19.A foreign language will be spoken.
20.A foreign language will have been spoken.
1.George builds the houses,................ doesn't h e .......................................
2.George will have been building the house,................................................
3.George wasn't building the house...............................................................
4.The house has been built by George..........................................................
5. George is building a house, .......................................................................
6.The house had been built by George..........................................................
7.The house was being built by George........................................................
8. The house isn't being built by George, .....................................................
9. George will be building the house, ............................................................
10.George has built the h o u se ,.....................................................................
11.The house will have been built by George..............................................
12.George had been building the house......................................................
13.The house is being built by George.........................................................
14.The house won't be built by George........................................................
15.George has been building the house.......................................................
16.George had built the house.......................................................................
17. George will have built the house, ...........................................................
18.The house hasn't been built by George
19.George will build the house.......................................................................
20.George built the house..............................................................................
21.Let's build a house.....................................................................................
22.Don't build the house.................................................................................
23.Build the house..............................................................................................................................................
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Cxercise 10. Listen to the short texts, fl man ond о ш отап are both looking for their
soul mates in order to start a family life.
I am Charles. I am a European man, dark-haired with light brown eyes. I live in France near Geneva. I'm self-employed in trading of building and decorative products. I am said to have an independent spirit, logical but also imaginative, to be frank, responsible, able to listen. I am optimistic, often joking and smiling. I like open-air sports in nature (hiking, cycling, skiing), studying ancient civilizations and foreign cultures, architecture, photography. I enjoy being with authentic people, respectful toward others, most active than talkative. Several times a year I help handicapped people to have normal hobbies. I appreciate beauty of life in nature, the arts and human behaviour. Overall, I consider building a peaceful family to be the most important goal in life. I would like to meet a woman who loves children and family, a sweet soul, educated, feminine, believing in God. She should be from eastern countries, till 35, without children speaking French or a Latin language.
My name is Flora and I live in Oregon. I'm slim, blue-eyed and fair-haired. I love to make people laugh and help them enjoy life. I own two successful businesses, both of which I started myself. But I am a sensual, affectionate, romantic person who is passionate about life. I love what I do and I am searching for my soul mate who will treat me like the princess which I deserve to be. I believe that true love does exist and I will continue to search for that special person until Ifind him.
Can you speak about yourself using the same pattern?