- •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. An extract from Pygmalion by b. Shaw (Part 2)
3. A song from the musical My Fair Lady —
“I could have danced all night”,
Cassette: From Headway Advanced, by J. and L.Soars
TEXT 1. My Fair Lady
1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
Go through the list of the following words below. They will help you to understand the recording.
whim [] - причуда
strife [] - ссора, борьба
serenity [] - спокойствие
band - кольцо
quart [kwt] - кварта (в Англии = 1.14 л)
vein [] - вена
polish [] - лоск, изысканность манер
knot [] - узел
mercy - милосердие, прощение
edition - зд. версия, вариант
inquisition - инквизиция
sabbatical [] - отпуск
overhaul [] - тщательно осматривать
drill - сверлить
escape - вырваться (о словах)
blush - краснеть от стыда
plunge in [] - бросаться
meditate [] - размышлять
contemplate [] - созерцать, размышлять
jabber [] - говорить быстро и невнятно, тараторить
shatter - разбивать вдребезги
excentric, eccentric [] - эксцентричный, странный
re-enthralling [] - увлекательный
eternal - вечный
anxious [] - беспокойный
insulting - оскорбительный
concise [] - краткий
precisely - точно, определенно
booming - издающий гул, гудение
boisterous [] - неистовый, шумливый
inhuman - нечеловеческий, очень сильный
2. Listening Exercises
2.1. Listen to Mr Higgings’ monologue and choose the right statement below.
a) Mr Higgings feels like getting married.
b) Mr Higgings is a confirmed bachelor.
c) Mr Higgings is at a loss whether to marry or not.
2.2. Listen to the monologue again paying attention to what Mr Higgings says about a woman. Note down the continuation for the statements beginning with the words “Let a woman in your life...” which he repeats many times.
2.3. Listen to the recording once more and note down the words and expressions which he uses to characterize himself.
2.4. Listen paying attention to what he dislikes in women. Note down the necessary information.
3. Language Focus and Auditory Memory Check
Choose the sentences which were used in the recording.
1. a) I’m an ordinary man who desires nothing more than ...
b) I’m an ordinary man who wishes nothing more than ...
2. a) who wants to ... drink whatever is nice for him.
b) who wants to ... drink whatever is best for him.
3. a) who wants to live his life full of strife ...
b) who wants to live his life free of strife ...
4. a) She only wants to chat of love.
b) She only wants to talk of love.
a) She will beg you for advice ...
b) She will ask you for advise ...
TEXT 2. Pygmalion
1. Pre-Listening Exercises
1.1. You will now hear a scene from Pygmalion by b.Shaw. Read the information below.
Higgings has been giving Liza lessons in how to speak ‘properly’. He is pleased with her progress and feels the time has come to ‘try her out in public’, although she has only been groomed to talk about the weather and health! He takes her, beautifully dressed, to a tea party at his mother’s house.
He has been able to help her a lot with her pronunciation, but unfortunately, she has little idea about what constitutes a polite conversation!
1.2. Go through the following words and clear up any difficulties.
depression ] - понижение давления
bowl [] - углубление ложки
call - нужда, необходимость
small talk - светский разговор, новое выражение в светском разговоре
ladle [] - лить
pinch - украсть
snigger at sb/sth [] - хихикать, подсмеиваться
do smb. in (coll.) - прикончить
shallow - незначительный
1.3. Look through the list characters of the extract you are going to hear.
Characters:
Mrs Higgings - Professor Higgins’s mother, a kind and wise lady
Mrs Eynsford-Hill - Mrs Higgings’s high-society friend
Freddy Eynsford-Hill - her son, in his early twenties
Clara Eynsford-Hill - sister to Freddy
Professor Higgings
Colonel Pickering
Eliza Doolittle
2. Listening Exercises
2.1. Listen and identify the statements below as True or False.
Liza was a success at the tea party.
Liza talked only about the weather at the party.
Liza’s language was not always clear for the others.
2.2. Listen for the details and note the answers for the following questions.
Who did Liza greet first?
What was wrong with Liza’s speech about the weather?
What relative did Liza tell the story about?
What did happen to her relative?
What impression did the story produce on Mrs Eynsford-Hill?
What expression couldn’t Mrs Eynsford-Hill understand? Why?
3. Language Focus
Give the English equivalents from the recording for the following Russian word combinations.
сказать (сделать) что-либо правильно
похолодать
эпидемия гриппа
вся семья болеет гриппом
умереть от …
иметь необходимость
TEXT 3. “I could have danced all night” (song)
Now you are going to hear the song “I could have danced all night” from the musical My Fair Lady.
1. Listen and explain why Liza can’t go to sleep.
2. Note down the text of the song.
Lesson B. OUT-OF-CLASS LISTENING
Text Title: The Importance of Being Earnest by O.Wilde
Cassette: From Making Headway Literature. Advanced,
by B.Bowler, S.Parminter
1. Pre-Listening Exercises
1.1. Read the following sentences, concentrating on the underlined words.
She is an earnest, intellectual-looking woman, and a good student.
We experienced one misfortune after another: my bag got lost on the flight, Caroline’s passport was stolen soon after we arrived, and we both got food poisoning.
Most of the local community centre’s money comes from gifts from charitable men and women in the neighbourhood.
He is an old gentleman of kindly disposition.
My parents lived in India when I was young so I was looked after in England by my guardian.
The two sisters, who hadn’t seen each other for many years, embraced warmly when they met again.
The elaborate investigations gave good results.
Many of the more remote mountain villages are completely cut off by snow in the winter.
There’s nothing more unpleasant for me than the revolting taste of sour milk.
Using hot irons, the cowboys branded the cows one by one, burning a big letter ‘s’ on each ones back.
The old house had capacious fitted cupboards, so we didn’t have to buy any wardrobes.
In a moment of mental abstraction she placed the baby in the hand-bag.
My grandmother lent me an old-fashioned perambulator (bassinette) when my daughter was born. We used to take her to the park in it.
My late grandmother used to read a lot.