Listening Basics part 2 (2) / New Listening Basics part 2

D. What are some other traffic problems in the country?

12. The Car Talk Show

Listen to the radio show and finish up the sentences from it.

a.I have a _______________________________ daughter.

b.She was __________________________ when she was born.

c.I am a New York _____________________.

d.My husband is not ____________________, he is not from

_______________________, he is of_____________________,

______________________ and ________________________.

e.Her name is _____________________.

f.I have a __________________ Honda ________________.

g.There are no _________________________ in the back seat.

h.What‘s the best __________________ for the front

__________________ so that I can ____________________

________________________ warm.

i.What you wanna do is to buy her a new __________________.

j.We _________________________ overbundle them.

k.I only ___________________ her __________________ a week.

l.She is going to be ___________________________.

m.I can see more _______________________________________.

n.If I have any __________________ I can just tell the doctor

_______________________ you.

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Part V. Speaking

1. Role-play: Solving a Problem

With a partner, act out the following situations. Each skit should end with a

resolution of the problem.

a.A passenger on a train or a plane approaches you and rudely tells you that you are sitting in his/her seat. The attendant interrupts and asks to see both your tickets. Resolve the situation. Whose seat is it? Will you have to move?

b.A police officer stops you for speeding on a highway. S/he says you were going 65 m.p.h. in a 55 m.p.h. zone. Try to talk the police officer out of giving you a ticket.

c.You have ordered a special vegetarian dinner on an airplane. The attendant brings you the wrong meal. Complain and ask him/her to bring you the correct meal.

d.You are on a flight from Puerto Rico to Miami. In the middle of the flight, a man suddenly jumps from his seat and announces that he is hijacking the plane to Cuba. While everyone else panics, you keep cool and try to talk the man out of hijacking the plane.

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4. Discussion

A. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages for the worker and his/her family of the following jobs in transportation. Would you like to have one of the jobs? Which one and why?

airline pilot steward/stewardess cab driver

truck driver travel agent bus driver boat captain

air-traffic controller

B.Answer the following questions:

1.Are there many traffic problems in Vladivostok? What are they? Do you know any plans to solve them or do you have any ideas for solving them?

2.If space travel becomes possible and affordable for everyone within your lifetime, will you go? Why or why not?

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___ Part VI. Individual Listening

Below you will find a list of additional recordings to develop the topic of the chapter. Choose one, listen to it at home as many times as necessary and get ready to tell your group mates (or professor) about it.

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CHAPTER VII

Tastes, Preferences and Opinions

Part I. Getting started

1. Intonation

Listen to the exchange from the conversation:

Do you like football? – I hate it. – Basketball?

Note the form of the second question. How can you tell that it‘s a question?

Which words are missing? How do you know? The complete question should be ―Do you like basketball?‖ The speaker drops the subject and the verb ―Do you like‖ because his meaning is clear from the context of the first question. This kind of reduction is common in rapid, informal speech. Listen to the following short exchanges. Write the full question instead of the reduced question.

Example: Do you like Japanese food ?

1.________________________________________ tired?

2.________________________________ anybody home?

3.________________________________leaving already?

4._________________________________________kids?

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2. Do or Did?

A. It can be difficult to hear the difference between "do" and "did" in questions with pronoun subjects. Do I look tired? – d’way look tired? Did he own a car? – didee own a car? Listen to pairs of sentences. Circle the first item you hear in each pair.

B. Listen to the questions and write the missing words.

1._________________ ________________ ______________ decide to do?

2.________________ __________________ _____________ eat?

3.Why _______________ ______________ ___________ ___________

copy my notes?

4.Where ________________ _____________ park out car?

5.Where _________________ _____________ put my keys?

6._______________ _______________ _____________ leave class early?

7.Where ________________ _______________ leave your bag?

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8. ______________ ______________ _______________ ______________

_______________ do?

2. Words

Make sure you know the following words from the dialog: to tell the truth

to afford

to do smth for fun ethnic

disgusting pasta

an exhibit

3. Listen to the dialog and fill in the blanks

In the following conversation Anna gets to know Dan, Jeff‘s musician friend. They are trying to find out what they have in common. What kind of questions might Anna and Dan ask each other? Is it important for two people to have the same tastes in order to get along?

Jeff: __________________ in!

Dan: Hi.

Anna: Oh, hi, Dan, ________________ ___________ you? Jeff: Hey, Dan, how ___________ ________________?

Dan: Great, thanks. Hey, I __________________ some _____________

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CDs ____________ ____________ to listen to.

Jeff: Oh, good. Oh, let me _____________ ______________. I‘ll be

________________ back. Anna, Okay.

Dan:

Dan: So, did ___________ ______________ a good time at the

______________ last _____________?

Anna: Yeah, it was _______________ _______________.

Dan: What did you _________________ of our band?

Anna: Well, your music is ______________ for _______________, but to tell you the ___________, it was kind of _________________. I

guess I really _____________ ___________________.

Dan: Do you go to _____________________ much?

Anna: No, not ______________ often. I ________________

_____________ it. They‘re ______________________ expensive here!

Dan: So, ___________________ do you like to do for

________________?

Anna: Well, I _____________ to __________________. And there‘re

______________ many __________________ ethnic restaurants around here.

Dan: What‘s your ___________________ kind of _______________?

Anna: Well, __________________, of course. What about

__________________?

Dan: Believe it or not, I‘m _________________ __________________

_________________ food.

Anna: Oo, I __________________ ________________ beans. Uh …

What about _____________ food?

Dan: I don‘t _______________ for it. Too _______________. How about _______________ food? You know, ______________, hot

dogs, ____________ fries …

Anna: _______________! All that _______________ and salt and

_____________ … We don‘t see ______________ to eye on

______________ in ____________________?

Anna: _______________ football? I ____________________ it! Dan: Basketball?

Anna: It‘s okay.

Dan: How _______________ __________________ musicians with

__________________ hair? Anna: It _______________.

Dan: OK, I _______________ it. How about __________________

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