- •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
Habits and customs Recording 5
Speaker 1: Er, about 3 years ago I was on a, a tour sort of round Africa and er we, we’d already been to several, er, countries, and um this was the fifth country that we visited; and it soon became very clear that Nigerians have a, a great fondness for making speeches at almost er the drop of a hat; um, you could be just going for a cup of tea with somebody, and somebody would have to make a speech about how nice it was to have you for a cup of tea and then somebody else would get it and say how nice it was for them to have made the speech to welcome you and give you a cup of tea and – then somebody would get up and say that somebody else would be making a speech later – um – it’s very, um, it’s a great love of sort of um performance and um sort of making a great formality on any, anything how, however casual it was supposed to be, there would be this feeling that it was a very formal event and this is the way it, it is…
Speaker 2: I’m from Swansea in South Wales, and a couple of years ago I went on a trip, um, around the Greek islands and, er, we ended up on a tiny island called Siphnos; and, um, we stayed in a little village room which was on the back of, a gentleman called Angelos, on the back of his house; and, er, we found out that they were very hospitable and in Greece they have a tradition not only on having, um, a birthday but also a saint’s day; and, er, in fact it was the daughter of the house’s saint’s day while we were there; and, um, what they did was invite us into, er, their house, and they make a special cake of, er, honey, I think is in it, and almonds, and um also, er, the wife of Angelos, um, she actually produces her own, sort of distils her own wine, um, and er we had a few glasses of this and the home-made cake. So there you not only have, as I say, birthdays but also saints’ days as well which they celebrate on completely different…
Speaker 3: Well my first visit to Britain was when I was fifteen and it was with, with a school exchange, I was staying with a family for three weeks, and, well I used to go to school with this girl, she was my penfriend in these days, and, um, well we took a double-decker bus every day to go to school and I was very surprised when I, on the first day, when I saw these girls wearing school uniforms; well at, at school everything was more or less normal and like in my country, but the very funny thing was that they stayed at the school over lunch and had all these sandwiches and crisps with different flavours, vinegar and salt, and things like that, and this white floppy bread, it was really, it was an experience for me because in my country you can, you go home for lunch, and you have cooked lunch because you don’t have school in, every, every afternoon, so you can just go home and be, be with your mum who has cooked a fine, very nice lunch for you; so this was something, something very different from what I was used to …
When in rome… Recording 6
Nick: (talking about Uganda): Well, I was amazed, I don’t know, I think I was expecting somewhere very dry and barren for some reason and in fact it’s the most incredibly lush and rich place. And it…the soil is a deep red and it looks as if you threw a seed in the ground it would grow into a tree by the next day. And the people are incredibly friendly…er…very welcoming.
Susanna: (talking about Switzerland): Well, I know it quite well because my grandparents live there, so as a child I used to go there every year. And it’s very clean and there are a lot of flowers, but all the same flower: geraniums, red geraniums. And they’re in every window box on every house so wherever you go you see these flowers, bright red. Um…there’s cows in the mountains and you hear…you hear the cow bells going and…and the grass is very green, and little tiny chalets sort of nestling. Um…it’s kind of too good to be true, and the people are a bit like that too.
Neil: (talking about Poland): …and I couldn’t get anywhere because they have their own code of politeness and behaviour, you have to understand it and I… I couldn’t make myself understood, I would go to a canteen and I would ask for…like…a piece of lemon to go in my tea and I wouldn’t get it. And I asked my friend…um…who came from the local place…um…what I should do about this because it was driving me nuts. And he said, “Ah you must remember,” he said, “We do things differently in this country, you must…everything’s done with charm, between man and woman is charm.” So the next day I went into the canteen and I said to this enormous woman, who must have been at least 90 years old, “Could I please have a bit of lemon?” And she gave me a bit with a big smile on her face and she kissed me and it was great.
Gertrud: (talking about Japan): Well, it’s quite extraordinary because…um…it’s really like a different planet, it’s so alien to everything you know when you come from the West…er…so it’s quite overwhelming. Apparently it takes eight years to learn the basic rules of behaviour, which is a bit daunting really. And everything’s just so different: the smells, the colours, um…the food, the taste, the music even. And…um…everything is very aesthetic, they’re very aesthetic people, and so the way the food is arranged is very beautiful, and…um…for instance you can apparently even give someone a glass marble but it’s got to be beautifully wrapped and you can give that as a present to your boss.
Nigel: (talking about the USA): One of the things that struck me really was the portions of the food when you go into a restaurant. You get this huge quantity of food that everybody seems to manage to finish. And when you look at some of the people, most of the people, they’re either very thin and terribly health-conscious or they’re grossy overweight, obviously from eating these huge portions of food.