- •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 7
CAREER COUNSELOR: Hello, Andy. How’s your job hunt going?
ANDY: Well, as a matter of fact, I have an important job interview coming up on Friday. Maybe you could give me some pointers on how to make a good impression.
COUNSELOR: Sure! First, don’t forget to take your resume to the interview.
ANDY: Oh, yeah, I've thought of that.
COUNSELOR: Good. They're sure to ask for your resume. Also, you'll need to find out as much as you can about the company beforehand.
ANDY: Oh, that's a good idea! I guess I should go to the library and do some research.
COUNSELOR: Yes, that would be worthwhile.
ANDY: They also sent me some brochures and reports about the company.
COUNSELOR: Oh, good! Look them over carefully. They'll give you a lot of information.
ANDY: OK. I'll do that.
COUNSELOR: And another thing ... be prepared to say why you think you would be good for the job.
ANDY: Oh, really? Do you think they'll ask me that?
COUNSELOR: Oh, yes. At job interviews, they always ask why you would be good for the job.
ANDY: All right.
COUNSELOR: And then don't forget to prepare some questions that you would like to ask them. There's usually time for that at the end of the interview.
ANDY: Uh-huh. All right.
COUNSELOR: It always makes a good impression if you ask some questions. It shows you really care about what kind of company you work for.
ANDY: Hey, that's a great idea! Well, thank you very much for all your advice!
COUNSELOR: You're welcome. And good luck! Let me know how it turns out.
ANDY: OK! I will!
2.6 Views and news
THE SUNDAY TIMES
Recording 1
Ivan Fallon
It’s a broadsheet newspaper, as opposed to what we call a tabloid newspaper. This is twice the size of a tabloid newspaper. It’s a very large newspaper. It’s a multi-section newspaper: we’ve got eight sections and a magazine. The, the first section, which is obviously the most important section, is what we call the News section; and in that we have home news, we have foreign news and we have analysis of some of the major events of the week. After that we have more specialized sections; we have what we call the News Review section. This section includes what we call the ‘leader’, which is the newspaper’s editorial comment – our views on what is the most important event of the week. This one here, which will be personally written by the editor – which is an attack upon the government’s economic policy and its employment policies – this is our contribution to the political debate.
The third section, which is the section I edit, is Business. This is a section that is amazingly well-read; it’s the classified advertising section – classified advertisements being specialist small advertisements. Quite often they are tiny ads.
Now we get to our tabloid sections. We have effectively three tabloid sections. The reason for this is that we found that not everybody likes the large broadsheet format. We’ve developed this particular section as our art section. The book section (we call section six) was the first time in Britain that this type of separate section had been done on books, and is still the only separate book section in Britain. We also have a color supplement, which is very much a separate part of paper.
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