- •Different kinds of greeting Recording 1
- •Go over the list of words and word combinations and clear up any difficulties.
- • Listening Tasks
- • Language Focus
- •Recording 2
- •2. Listen to each dialogue again and try to guess where the action takes place. Fill in the table below.
- •Inviting people to a party Recording 3
- •Recording 4
- •2. Listen to the same interview for the second time and complete the statements given below.
- • Language Focus
- •Habits and customs. Recording 5
- •When in rome… Recording 6
- •Listening Tasks
- •1. You will hear five people describing their first visits to another country. Define the countries the speakers visited and the popular habits associated with them.
- •2. Listen to the recording again and choose from the list a – k what each person says about the country. Use the letters only once. There’s one extra letter you don’t need to use.
- •F The soil is incredibly rich there.
- • Follow-up Activity
- •Living in a foreign country Recording 7
- •1. Consult a dictionary if you have any difficulties in translating the following words and expressions.
- •2. Before listening think of three things that make life easy and three things that make life difficult for a person living in a foreign country.
- •2.2 Skin deep. People’s appearances
- •Describing people Recording 1
- •Language Focus
- •Recording 2
- •Recording 3
- • Listening Tasks
- • Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 4
- •1. Go over the list of words and clear up any difficulties.
- • Listening Task
- • Follow-up Activity
- •2.3 Interpersonal relations Topic Preview
- •Recording 1
- •1. Listen to the recording. Which of these sentences are true?
- •Recording 2
- • Listening Task
- •How to deal with difficult children Recording 3
- •Marriage guidance council Recording 4
- •1. Go over the list of words. Make sure there are no difficulties in understanding their meaning.
- •2. Practice these proper names and words.
- • Listening Task
- • Language Focus
- •Recording 5
- •1. Listen to Sam and Charlie talking about being married and being single and answer these questions:
- •2. Listen to their talk and take notes of Sam’s and Charlie’s arguments for and against marriage.
- •Recording 6
- • Language Focus
- •1. Complete the following sentences according to the dialogue.
- •2. Translate into English.
- •Recording 7
- • Listening Task
- •1. Listen to the conversation between Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Smith and choose the things they have mentioned in their talk.
- •2. Listen to the recording. Think over the right alternative to make up a true statement.
- • Language focus
- •1. Complete the following sentences in accordance with the dialogue.
- •2. Translate into English.
- •What sort of people may enjoy spreading gossip?
- •2. 4 Developing the mind
- •Recording 1
- •You are just making excuses!
- •2. Consult a dictionary paying attention to the different pronunciation of the word “either”. Listening Tasks
- •Iq tests Recording 2
- •What do you think these tests measure?
- •2. Listen to the final radio program extract and note down three pieces of advice for people doing iq tests mentioned in the recording.
- •A quiz Recording 3
- • Listening Task
- • Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 4
- •2. Listen to the recording again and answer the following questions.
- • Language Focus
- •2.5 Job options
- •Recording 1
- • Listening Tasks
- •2. Listen to the conversation again and complete the phrases.
- • Grammar Focus
- •2. Listen to the stress in these sentences from the grammar box in task 1.
- •3. Listen to the rest of the sentences. Mark the stressed words and then practice the sentences. Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 2
- • Listening Tasks
- • Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 3
- • Listening Tasks
- •2. Listen again and answer the questions.
- • Language Focus
- •Recording 4
- • Listening Tasks
- • Grammar Focus
- •Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 5
- • Listening Tasks
- • Language Focus
- • Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 6
- •2. Study the acis advertisement.
- • Listening Tasks
- •3. Listen to the last extract and answer the questions.
- • Language Focus
- • Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 7
- • Listening Tasks
- • Follow-up Activity
- •2.6 Views and news
- •Recording 1
- • Listening Tasks
- •2. Listen again and answer the questions.
- • Language Focus
- •Recording 2
- • Listening Tasks
- •2. Listen to the recording again and answer these questions.
- • Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 3
- • Listening Tasks
- • Follow-up Activity
- •What habits of the people you’ve just been listening to are very like the same as yours? tapescripts
- •2.1 Cross-cultural behaviour
- •Recording 1
- •Recording 2
- •Inviting people to a party Recording 3 Dialogue 1
- •Dialogue 2 Mary Hello, Mary Latimer here.
- •Dialogue 4
- •Have you ever considered living abroad? Recording 4
- •Habits and customs Recording 5
- •When in rome… Recording 6
- •Recording 7
- •2.2 Skin deep. People appearances describing people Recording 1
- •Describing people Recording 2
- •Recording 3
- •Recording 4
- •2.3 Interpersonal relations
- •Recording 1
- •Recording 2
- •How to deal with difficult children Recording 3
- •Marriage guidance council Recording 4
- •Talking about being married and being single Recording 5
- •Recording 6 Mrs. Jones Good morning, Mrs. Smith. What beautiful weather again!
- •Mrs. Jones Yes, but some people are complaining about the heat and grumbling because we haven’t had much rain for the gardens.
- •Recording 6
- •2.4 Developing the mind
- •Recording 1
- •Joan I don’t like them either, but on the other hand, if we didn’t have them, I don’t suppose I’d study at all.
- •Joan I suppose they do, but I don’t think that’s the point, either. Surely you have to do exams for people to find out if you know anything…
- •Iq tests Recording 2
- •A quiz Recording 3 Question 1
- •Question 2
- •Question 3
- •Question 4
- •Question 5
- •Recording 4
- •2.5 Job options
- •Recording 1
- •Recording 2
- •Julia: Bye-bye!
- •Recording 3
- •Recording 4
- •Man: Mmm ... And do you speak any foreign languages
- •Woman: Do you have any experience with this kind of work?
- •Recording 5
- •Recording 6
- •Recording 7
- •2.6 Views and news
- •Recording 1
- •Recording 2
- •Recording 3
Recording 2
Pre-listening Task
Make sure you know the meaning of these words and word combinations.
be biased
be objective
human-interest stories
Listening Tasks
1. Listen to three people being interviewed about daily papers and, where possible, add information about their preferences to your chart.
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Type of newspapers
Frequency
(how often)
Reasons for choosing
this newspaper
Reasons for not choosing others
2. Listen to the recording again and answer these questions.
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What does the first man mean by “objective”?
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What does the woman mean by “human-interest stories”?
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What does the second man mean by “the royals”? Give examples of other figures.
Follow-up Activity
Work in groups of 3 or 4 and discuss reading habits of yours.
LISTENING AND READING HABITS
Recording 3
Pre-listening Task
Make sure you know the meaning of these words and word combinations.
editorial (n) detest smth (v)
division two/ three review (n)
loathe smb (v) ludicrous clothes
Listening Tasks
1. Listen to some people talking about the topics covered by newspapers and television and fill in the table below. (Two listenings may be necessary).
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The speaker |
likes/finds relaxing |
doesn’t like/detests/loathes |
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Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Speaker 5 |
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2. Listen to the recording again and answer the following questions.
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What newspaper pages doesn’t the first speaker actually read and why?
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What does the second speaker find particularly relaxing about the radio?
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Why does the third speaker go the pub to watch TV and why?
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What has the fourth speaker become more aware of since she’s had a child?
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What does the fifth speaker find absolutely dreadful and why?
Language Focus
Complete the chart filling in the missing derivatives.
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Noun |
Verb |
Adjective |
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editorial |
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relax |
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detest |
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violent |
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aggressiveness |
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Follow-up Activity
In pairs discuss the following.
What habits of the people you’ve just been listening to are very like the same as yours? tapescripts
2.1 Cross-cultural behaviour
DIFFERENT KINDS OF GREETING
Recording 1
Catriona - С Bernard - В
С: Something which I think a lot of people find difficult when they go to other countries is the problem of greetings.
B: I agree, yeah . . .
C: I suppose in Britain we're terribly informal, I mean, much too informal perhaps, but I find that whenever I go to France or Italy I never really know who I should shake hands with, who I should maybe kiss.
C: it's very difficult,
C: ... on one cheek, maybe two cheeks. I think in parts of France it's three cheeks, I mean, how do you know (three times)?
B: That's right Well, Belgium it's three cheeks, I mean, er, if you think of Marie-Louise, I mean, she comes along and sees us and says bang bang bang on three cheeks straight away, doesn't she? But erm, I can remember when I first went to Thailand I had a bit of a problem because, erm, you really didn't know who, who was who and in the end I discovered you had to watch the height of the erm, hands if er, because they have a way of bowing to each other which I think they call is 'waiing' - you 'wai' to somebody. You put your hands together and you bow, and, according to the height of your hands. So you are more or less important erm, if your hands go very high to your head, it means the person you're speaking to is much more important than you are, but if you hold your hands like this, sort of chest height sort of thing, you're more or less equal. Er, interesting.
C: And when do you start doing this? Do children bow or is it just as you get older?
B: Erm. I don't know, I just don't know really but, erm...
C: I wonder how you get to know.
B: But I'll tell you another place that's er, a bit of a problem with greetings. If you go er, go over the ocean to Peru, er, that's where I started off as a teacher, erm, the Peruvians really are very, very good at er, hugging you and embracing you and even people who you don't know awfully well - you sort of meet them in the street and immediately they hold out both their arms and they, they put them right round you and they go slap slap slap slap slap and it's really a bit of a joke, because I mean you can't see their head, because you've tucked your head sort of behind them and sometimes you can't even remember who's actually slapping your back, you know, but the great thing is it gives you time, because you go, 'iHola! iQue tal? how are you?' erm, 'We haven't seen each other for such a long time, have we?' slap slap slap slap slap and you think, 'Oh my gosh yes, I remember who this is. I met him at a party a few nights ago...'.
C: Is this generally men to men? This wouldn't be women to women?
B: Ah, that's a very interesting question. I expect probably it's the men. Yes, it's probably the men greeting each other.
С: 'How are you, old boy?' slap on the back kind of thing.
B: That sort of thing, yeah, I expect so.