3.3. Give the English equivalents for the following Russian word combinations from the text of the recording.

1. возрасти на 60% за последние 12 месяцев (о средних доходах населения)

2. успешная экономическая политика

3. согласно данным полиции

4. были драки в течение всей демонстрации

5. снизиться до 3%

6. неотложные меры

7. разразиться начаться (о драке)

8. уменьшить размер ущерба; предотвратить серьезный ущерб

9. послать письмо с выражением соболезнования

10. поступить (о новостях)

11. подробности к настоящему моменту неизвестны

12. устойчивая солнечная погода

13. с температурой значительно выше 30 градусов

14. лидеры оппозиционной партии

4. Follow-Up Activity

Reproduce the news broadcast.

Lesson B. OUT-OF-CLASS LISTENING

Text Title: News Broadcast

Cassette: From Interchange 3, by J.Richards

1. Pre-Listening Exercises

1.1. Go over the words given below. They will help you understand the recording.

phone booth [] - телефонная будка

stock broker [] - биржевой маклер

stock market - биржа

fine - штрафовать

1.2. Copy the sentences below:

1. A man was fined yesterday for stealing an ambulance.

2. A woman was arrested in a public phone booth today.

3. A man who tried to break into a house on Friday got stuck in a chimney for fifty hours.

4. An airplane made an unexpected landing yesterday.

5. Two men were killed and six people hurt in a collision between a police car and a mini car yesterday.

2. Listening Exercises

2.1. Listen to a news broadcast and put the sentences in the order they come in the recording (see ex. 1.2.). Some sentences were not mentioned in the recording.

2.2. Now listen to the news broadcast again and take notes to answer the questions:

1. Why did the plane make an emergency landing? Was anyone injured?

2. Why was the woman arrested? Why was she angry?

3. Why did the man steal the ambulance? Who stopped him?

2.3. Listen to each news story separately and give answers to the following questions:

News Story 1

1. What was the number of the airplane?

2. What city did the plane leave yesterday?

3. Where did it fly?

4. When did the pilot turn the plane around and return it to the airport?

5. Who was born in a hospital?

News Story 2

1. How many calls had the man received in the last week?

2. How much money had the woman lost?

News Story 3

1. What state was the man from?

2. What sum was the man fined yesterday?

3. Where was the ambulance parked while the ambulance driver was making a phone call?

4. For how long had the man been waiting for a bus?

5. Where was the ambulance stopped?

3. Language Focus

Give the English equivalents for the following Russian sentences using the language of the recording.

1. Предлагаем вашему вниманию последние сообщения шестичасового выпуска новостей.

2. Самолет был вынужден вернуться в аэропорт.

3. Пилот быстро развернул самолет.

4. Женщина грозилась убить биржевого маклера.

5. Вчера был оштрафован мужчина на сумму в 1000 долларов за угон машины.

6. Водитель заметил, что происходит, когда мужчина завел машину и стал отъезжать.

7. Машина была остановлена в нескольких кварталах от места происшествия.

4. Follow-Up Activity

Write a passage about the news story you like best. Get ready to present it in class acting as the speaker of the news broadcast.

UNIT 2

Lesson A. IN-CLASS LISTENING

Text Title: Making an appointment

Cassette: From The Cambridge English Course,

by M.Swan, C.Walter

1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary

1.1. Look trough the list of proper names used in the recording.

Margaret Rowntree Baker and Parsons

Robert Carter Lacy’s

Stuart Marston Street

Grange Square

Caxton Street

Woodside

1.2. Study the language note.

Some students are likely to confuse ‘in front of’ and ‘opposite’ (because of misleading equivalents in other languages). The complete use of both expressions is quite complicated; it’s probably enough to explain that we normally use ‘opposite’, not ‘in front of ‘, for the case where two people or things face each other across a gap or barrier.

2. Listening Exercises

2.1. Listen to the recording and identify the number of telephone calls.

2.2. Answer the question:

Will Margaret and Stuart have lunch together at Lacy’s?

2.3. Listen to the recording again and explain why Stuart couldn’t talk to Margaret in each case. Copy the chart and tick off the right reason in each case. The first is done for you.

Telephone			Reasons
calls	the line is bad	the wrong number	the line is busy	the wrong extension	They got cut off
1.			
2.
3...

2.4. Listen to the recording once more and say if these statements are True or False.

1. Margaret’s extension is 356.

2. Stuart’s telephone number is Woodside 18432.

3. Margaret can get to Grange Square by a 37 bus from her office.

4. She can get a number 7 to the Cathedral from the town hall.

5. Margaret and Stuart are to meet at a quarter to one.

2.5. Listen to the final conversation between Stuart and Margaret. As you listen, look at the map at p. 144. Stuart tells Margaret how to find a restaurant called Lacy’s.

Where is the restaurant – at A, B, C, or D?

3. Language Focus

3.1. Listen to the recording again and note down the words and expressions needed for making telephone calls. There are 14 of them in all.

3.2. Fill in the missing prepositions where necessary.

1. Well, you take a  bus ... the office, get ... ... Grange Square, cross the road, turn ... left, take the first ... your right, and Lacy’s is a few yards ... the road ... your left, ... a church. You can’t miss it.

2. O.K. Then get a number  , get ... ... ... ... the Cathedral, walk ... the park, then go ... the canal ... the right and ... the first bridge, and you’ll come ... ... Marston Street. Lacy’s is ... ... the other end ... the right.

4. Follow-Up Activities

4.1. Role-play the telephone conversations between Stuart and Margaret. Use ex. 2.5 and ex. 3.2 and the map.

4.2. Role-play the telephone conversation between two friends meeting somewhere in the city.

Lesson B. OUT-OF-CLASS LISTENING

Text Title: The knowledge

Cassette: From Streamline English. Destinations,

by B.Hartley, P.Viney

Tape Dictation

Listen to the recording and note it down as fully as you can. Prepare it for being checked in class.

UNIT 3

Lesson A. IN-CLASS LISTENING

Text Titles: 1. Hiring a car

2. Phoning a garage

Cassette: From Task Listening, by L.Blundell, J.Stokes

TEXT 1. Hiring a car

1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary

Look through the words and the names of cars below. They will help you to understand the recording.

charge - назначать цену, взимать плату

VAT - Value Added Tax - налог на добавочную стоимость (НДС)

A llegro

Marina Estate - names of cars

Maxi

2. Listening Exercises

You are going to hear someone phoning a car hiring company.

2.1. Listen to the recording and decide which of the following statements is True (T) and which is False (F).

1. A customer wants to enquire about hiring a car for a camping holiday.

2. The customer needs a car for a family of five plus space for a big dog.

3. The salesman offers four different kinds of cars.

4. The customer wants to know if there is any extra for two drivers because her son might want to drive as well.

2.2. Now listen to the conversation again and write down the company’s name, its telephone number and the answers to the customer’s questions. Make use of the chart below.

They’d be leaving on ...
They’d be returning on ...
Pick up the car what time?
Return by when?
Basic cost
For how many miles?
Per extra mile?
Deposit?
Extra for each extra driver?
VAT included?
Insurance included?