Track 15: End of Course Test, Listening exercise 2

1

You honestly don’t believe it’ll ever happen to you. OK, if you’re a famous celebrity or something, but I’d consider myself a pretty normal kind of woman so I really don’t know why that guy got so obsessed. At first it was the odd letter but then the phone calls started …

2

It was so stupid really and I should’ve known better. The oldest trick in the book … when you’re trying to get on to a crowded bus so you push forward and then bang, you look down and your wallet’s gone …

3

The first I knew of it was when my bank called me to see whether I’d been out of the country at all in the last couple of months. Apparently there’d been some unusual transactions on my credit card, so obviously someone had managed to get hold of my details and was pretending to be me.

4

I wouldn’t have believed it possible if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. And she was almost arrogant about it as she put the cans straight into her bag. I don’t know whether they’ll have caught her on CCTV, but it was pretty stupid if you ask me.

5

It was about seven in the evening and not even dark. I heard my neighbour shouting outside, so of course I ran out to see what was going on. The two guys ran off when they saw me, but Jack was badly shaken as you can imagine.

6

The police think that it was started deliberately and I must say it does seem a bit strange that there have been five fires at the same industrial estate in as many months. Luckily no one was hurt, but still, what a waste.

Track 16: End of Course Test, Pronunciation exercise 1

appreciate appreciate

2

obligation obligation

3

advice advice

4

oblige oblige

5

prefer prefer

6

interference interference

7

appreciation appreciation

8

practise practise

9

encouragement encouragement

10

achievement achievement

11

preference preference

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