- •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 6
R: Can you tell me about the job’ cause, I mean, as I said I don’t know much about ACIS… What is it?
S: Well I can tell you what we do, which is we’re in, I’m involved with the hiring of courier and all the things that the courier would do, which is what is that advert’s all about. Erm, and so we employ couriers to act as, well they’re tour guides. Erm, and to act as guides to American students and their teachers who come on educational trips round Europe and so as a guide you’ll be responsible for absolutely everything: from the logistics of the trip, getting people into hotels and onto buses and all that sort of thing, to giving them road commentary on the bus and telling them all about the sights and that sort of thing. Erm, and also filling their free time so whenever they have free time on the agenda, on their itinerary of things to do, erm, you’re there taking them to Covent Garden or the theatre, or whatever, just filling their free time so it’s 24 hours a day, every day.
R: How do you, I mean, people apply to you from this advertisement, telephone you. How do you decide from their application whether to interview the person or not, or do you interview everybody?
S: Erm, we do interview everybody unless their application looks, you know, if they’ve got no languages at all and, erm, you see part of the job, it’s important that the couriers has quite a, the personality side, that’s what I’m trying to say, is really important because you’re running this trip and the idea’s to keep everybody jolly and happy and the energy going, and all that sort of thing, so that side is, you know, sometimes if somebody has got the most incredible personality and they’re good fun and you know that they’re going to be a great courier but they don’t have many languages or their knowledge of countries and so on isn’t so wonderful; we still might employ them because they can swot up in those areas, erm, because their personality is so important erm, and their attitude. Attitude can make or break the trip or make or break us employing them really, erm.
R: So they send you a written application.
S: They send us a written application with a photograph and generally we do see most people. (Right). Yeah, I mean 99% erm, and er, what was the question again?
S: Some of them…generally they’re quire short, you know, they just say, ‘Thanks for coming along and good luck in future’ or something awful like that. You know one of those… We’ve all had the rejection letters. (Diplomatically expressed) Yeah, erm, so we have two or three. (Right) Do you want the exact wording? I can’t think of the exact wording. You, it’s ‘Thanks for coming along. Unfortunately you weren’t successful this time.’ Cause when people ring up on the phone, that’s the sort of thing I say, is ‘Unfortunately this time we won’t be using you’ and quite a lot of time, especially towards the end, it was because we’ve got so many people, and this year we’ve got a lot of trips to Italy and Spain and we’ve got so many people that if they didn’t speak Spanish or Italian, they had …or they weren’t absolutely brilliant and they didn’t speak Spanish or Italian, we had to say no.
R: Right. Do you find it difficult to say no? So, so that that was quite…
S: Yeah it kills me ‘cause I’ve been in that position. Erm, but er, so if they didn’t speak Spanish or Italian that was good, we’d have their application form there and that would be the reason, ‘cause it’s nice to have a reason. But we have plenty of people ring up and saying ‘Why?’…You know…and people who weren’t very good ’cause their personality or, or whatever, that their personality wasn’t right, we’d have them ringing up saying, ‘Why didn’t I get the job?’
R: And what do you say?
S: Erm, you lie. We lie. You have to, don’t you? (Yeah)
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