- •Introduction
- •Section 1
- •2.3. The part of the recording you will hear now is about the schedule of the course. Listen and fill in the missing information on the grid below.
- •3.2. Listen and note down the English equivalents of the following Russian word combinations:
- •3.3. While listening this time try to fill in the missing words in the sentences below.
- •1.1. Go through the following list of business vocabulary.
- •1.2. Make sure you know these words and word combinations.
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.2. Listen again and fill in the left-hand column of the chart below with the types of characteristics required in the order they come on the tape.
- •1.1 Study the meaning of the words and word combinations below.
- •1.2. Read this advertisement carefully. The information will help you understand the recording better.
- •Candidate a
- •Candidate b
- •Candidate c
- •2.5.3. Mark the following statements as True or False.
- •2.6. Listen to the phone calls again and fill the available information in the chart below:
- •3. Language Focus and Auditory Memory Check
- •3.1. Identify the speaker (the manager, the secretary and the candidates) who the following sentences belong to.
- •3.2. Indicate the meanings the following words and word combinations have in the conversations you’ve heard.
- •3.3. Insert fairly, rather, too in the sentences from the recording.
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •1.1. Before you listen to the tape read this newspaper advertisement.
- •1.2. Go through the vocabulary list given below and clear up any difficulties.
- •1.3. Study the table given below. Copy it out before listening to the recording.
- •2. Teaching at school
- •2.4. Listen to the text another time paying attention to the details of the contents and the language. Give answers to the following questions.
- •3. Language Focus
- •3. Language Focus
- •3.1. Listen to the recording again. Pick out and note down the past activities Isabel talks about (She mentions 3 of them.)
- •3.2. In each pair of statements below choose the one from the tape-recording.
- •2.2. Give synonyms from the recording for the following words and word combinations.
- •2.3. Give the English equivalents for the sentences below keeping to the text:
- •Consolidation 1
- •2.3. Write a detailed passage about one of the pieces of news.
- •3. Language Focus and Auditory Memory Check
- •Section 2
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •4.1. Roleplay the telephone conversations you’ve listened to.
- •4.2. In pairs talk about the symptoms that are worrying you and ask for advice.
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Listen to the recording and identify the following statements as True or False.
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •2. A day in my life
- •1. Listening Exercises
- •Listen to Margaret talking and choose the right option to make up true statements.
- •1.2. Say if the following statements are True or False.
- •3. Language Focus
- •3.1. Listen to the tape again. Pick out and note down the words which mean:
- •3.2. Give the English equivalents for the following sentences.
- •2.6. Listen to Anna Wright and Peter Savage giving their opinions on the problem. While listening answer the questions below choosing the right alternative.
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Listen to the conversation and complete the statements that follow.
- •2.2. As you listen to the conversation once more complete some of the answers. Listen to the recording twice.
- •3. Language Focus
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •Study the list of words given below.
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Listen to Dr. Clarke speaking about first aid. From the list of cases needing first aid tick (√) those that are mentioned in the interview:
- •2.2. Listen to the text again for more detail. Say if these statements are True or False.
- •2.3. Listen to the text again and focus on the right action you have to take when an accident happens. Complete the following sentences.
- •3. Language Focus
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •1.1. Read the information below. Pubs & wine bars
- •1.2. Answer the following questions:
- •1.3. Read the menu given below and say if it is a pub or a wine bar.
- •Vegetarian Crepes £3.75
- •1.4. Go through the list of words and clear up any difficulties.
- •1.5. Read some of the sentences from the interview and see if you understand them.
- •3.2. Go through the list of word combinations and phrases below and find their equivalents in the recording while listening to it again.
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •1.1. Go through the list of words below to clear up any difficulties.
- •3.2. Translation
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •3.2. Complete the following sentences using the words and word combinations given in the box.
- •2.3. While listening to the man’s story again write down the following information about him.
- •2.4. Now listen to Laura’s story and note down the answers to the following questions.
- •3. Language Focus
- •2.2. Listen to the tape again to find the answers to these questions.
- •3.2. Tape dictation. Fill in the blanks. Check your answers by listening to the tape again.
- •3.3. Listen and note down the English equivalents for the following Russian expressions and sentences.
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •In groups discuss the following:
- •3. Language Focus
- •4. Discussion
- •3. Language Focus
- •Consolidation 3
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •Section 4
- •1.1. Before listening to the text name as many English towns as you can.
- •1.2. Go through the following list of words and word combinations.
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1.While listening focus on the essential characteristics of the towns: their having a cathedral, a market; their origin and inhabitants.
- •2.2. Check your understanding by choosing the right alternative.
- •2.3. Listen to each text separately and note down the information needed to answer the questions.
- •3. Language Focus
- •2.3. Listen to the text extract by extract according to the sub-topics of the outline and concentrate on the details of the contents. Write down:
- •3. Follow-Up Activities
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Now you will hear part of a lecture about London. State the subject matter of the text by choosing the suitable prompt.
- •3. Language Focus
- •3.1. As you listen to the lecture now concentrate on the details of the vocabulary. Pick out and note down:
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •2.4. Listen to the speaker describing places of interest and pay attention to what some of these places were originally and what they are today. Fill the necessary information in the chart given.
- •3. Language Focus
- •Videofilm
- •2. Comprehension Exercises
- •2.1. Watch carefully and pick out the relevant information to answer these questions.
- •2.2. Watch the episode once more and take notes about some details of the description.
- •3. Language Focus
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •Videofilm
- •4. Language Focus
- •4.1. Listen to the recording again and give the English equivalents from the tape for the following Russian expressions.
- •4.2. Fill in the prepositions where necessary.
- •2.2. Complete these notes made by a member of a group on holiday abroad:
- •2.3. Say whether the following statements are True or False.
- •3. Language Focus
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •Consolidation 5
- •1. Writing Based On Listening. Recognition Accuracy Check
- •Section 6
- •3.3. Give the English equivalents for the following Russian word combinations from the text of the recording.
- •News Story 1
- •News Story 2
- •News Story 3
- •3. Language Focus
- •3. Language Focus
- •1.1. Study the list of words below. They will help you understand and follow a conversation about the condition of a car.
- •1.2. Copy the grid below.
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Listen to the recording and complete the following statements by choosing the appropriate continuation.
- •2.2. Listen to the conversation again and answer the following questions:
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Jeff and Emma are flatmates. Emma is ringing to Criterion cinema to see what’s on. Listen to the recorded message twice and fill in the chart.
- •2.2. Now you are going to hear Emma and Jeff discussing what to do this evening. Listen to them and choose the correct answers.
- •3. Language Focus and Auditory Memory Check
- •3.1. Look at these groups of sentences. Choose the sentences used in the recording.
- •3. Language Focus and Auditory Memory Check
- •3.1. Listen again and pay attention to the context in which these expressions are used. Get ready to reproduce it after listening.
- •3.2. Look through the chart below and state who these words belong to by ticking the right box.
- •2. An extract from Pygmalion by b. Shaw (Part 2)
- •3. A song from the musical My Fair Lady —
- •1.1. You will now hear a scene from Pygmalion by b.Shaw. Read the information below.
- •1.2. Read the information below.
- •1.3. Read the plot summary of the play.
- •1.4. Use the sentences from the ex. 1.3. To help you match a word in a with a definition in b.
- •Extract a
- •Extract b
- •Extract c
- •3. Language Focus
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •Consolidation 6
- •1. General Comprehension
- •2. Intensive Comprehension
- •3. Writing Based on Listening Recognition. Recognition Accuracy Check
- •Section 7
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Listen to the fairy tale and identify the following statements as True or False. Correct the false ones.
- •2.2. Arrange the suggested subtopics according to their order in the text.
- •2.3. Listen to the fairy tale once again and in each pair of statements tick the True one.
- •2.4. Read the sentences below and identify the speaker. Reproduce the situations which these statements belong to.
- •3. Enriching your Vocabulary
- •3.1. Recognising new vocabulary in the speech flow.
- •3.2. Making use of new vocabulary
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Listen to the tape to identify whether the fairy tale was
- •2.2. Answer the following alternative questions:
- •2.3. Say if the following statements are True or False.
- •3. Language Focus
- •3.1. Fill in the gaps with a) the prepositions and b) the intensifiers used in the text. Then listen to the recording again and check your answers.
- •2. Listen to the same extract again and focus on some text features. Pick out and put down word combinations and phrases:
- •1. Listen to a new passage of the text and trace down the events that happened to Alice here. Expand the suggested outline by making use of the key words and phrases in the brackets.
- •2. Listen to the talk between Alice and the Caterpillar and the song they perform together. Make sue you’ve grasped the contents of the conversation by completing the statements which follow:
- •3. Listen to the song “You are Old, Father William” again and focus on some language features.
- •You are Old, Father William by Robert Southey (1774-1843)
- •Literature
- •Contents
2. Listening Exercises
You’ll hear 4 texts about the English towns of Salisbury, Caernarfon, Durham and Liverpool.
2.1.While listening focus on the essential characteristics of the towns: their having a cathedral, a market; their origin and inhabitants.
2.2. Check your understanding by choosing the right alternative.
1. a) All the towns are cathedral towns.
b) Caernarfon, Durham and Liverpool are cathedral towns.
c) Salisbury, Durham and Liverpool are cathedral towns.
2. a) Salisbury and Liverpool are not market towns.
b) All the towns are market centres for the surrounded region.
c) Salisbury, Durham and Caernarfon are market towns.
3. a) All the towns were started by Romans.
b) Only Caernarfon and Salisbury were started by Romans.
c) None of the towns were started by Romans.
4. a) All the towns are cosmopolitan.
b) Durham and Liverpool are cosmopolitan towns.
c) Only Liverpool is a cosmopolitan city.
2.3. Listen to each text separately and note down the information needed to answer the questions.
Salisbury
Why is Salisbury called a new town?
Why was the town moved to its present site?
What is the most striking feature of Salisbury?
When was the cathedral built?
When was the spire added to the cathedral? What’s its height?
What attracts tourists in Salisbury? Note down where the attraction is situated.
Why is the city centre particularly pleasant?
Caernarfon
Why is the Welsh spelling of the town preferred?
Where is the town situated?
When was the present castle started and completed?
Who was the first Prince of Wales?
When was he invested as Prince of Wales?
What is the population of the town?
What adds to Caernarfon’s attractions?
Durham
How far is Durham from Newcastle and from London?
When and why was the Norman castle built?
How did the University of Durham start?
What is Durham surrounded by?
What is the present population of the town?
Liverpool
What is the city’s population?
What is the population of the Merseyside conurbation?
What is Liverpool famous for?
What industries can be found here?
What is the infamous page of Liverpool’s history?
How does traffic get across the river Mersey?
Why is Liverpool called the real capital of the Welsh and the Irish?
What is Liverpool well-known for today?
What plans are being made to attract tourism to Liverpool?
3. Language Focus
Translate into English using the words and phrases from the texts:
Запас воды был ограничен, поэтому город перенесли на его нынешнее место.
Самое впечатляющее в городе – это его собор.
В центре города особенно приятно, так как движение транспорта осуществляется по кольцевой дороге, уходящей на восток от центра.
Город занимает удобное положение в стратегическом и военном отношениях.
Это один из сохранившихся замков (мостов, соборов), который представляет собой большую историческую ценность.
Старая городская стена все еще в хорошем состоянии.
Город Дурхэм расположен на излучине реки.
Религиозные школы начали развиваться с 15 века и стали, наконец, университетом Дурхэма в 1832 г.
В Ливерпуле построен “Музей Битлз” стоимостью в 1 млн. фунтов.
Его слава в мире футбола так же велика, как и в мире поп-музыки.
Ливерпуль быстро развивался в 18 и 19 веках как главный атлантический порт Великобритании.
В течение многих лет переправиться через реку можно было только на пароме, позже было выстроено 2 туннеля.
Ливерпуль известен остроумием своих жителей и высокими цифрами безработицы.
Планируется превратить район доков в зону отдыха.
4. Follow-Up Activities
4.1. Act as an English history teacher and discuss the four towns described in the texts.
4.2. Say which of these towns you would like to visit most and why.
Lesson B. OUT-OF-CLASS LISTENING
Text Title: San Francisco
Cassette: From TOEFL Tests, by P.Sharpe
1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
1.1. Make sure you know the following words:
altitude [] - высота над уровнем моря
site - зд. положение, местонахождение
peninsula [] - полуостров
trail - зд. тропа, дорога
seaboard [] - морское побережье, приморье
terminus [] - вокзал
herbs - лекарственные травы
suspension bridge - подвесной мост
span - соединять берега (о мосте)
1.2. Read the following geographical names:
the Mission San Francisco de Asis []
Yerba Buena []
Marin County []
Redwood Highway
2. Listening Exercises
2.1. You’ll hear a talk about San Francisco. Then you’ll be asked 5 questions (Numbers 39, 40, 41, 42, 43). They are not written out for you, so you will have to listen carefully in order to understand and remember what the speaker says.
2.2. Listen to the recording again and fill in the gaps with the missing words:
From this lookout we __________ of San Francisco.
The city rests _________ varying in altitude from ____ to ___ feet.
The first permanent settlement ___________ at this site in __ when a Spanish military post ________.
A station was established for travellers called Yerba Buena which means __________.
By 1869 the first transcontinental railroad _________ seaboard.
6.The bridge which is ________, spans the harbour from San Francisco to Marin County and the Redwood Highway.