upper-intermediate listening booklet
Ruth Gairns & Stuart Redman
with Louise Williams
in this listening booklet
- tapescripts for all student’s book listening sections
- optional listening and pronunciation activities, plus
tapescript-based exercises Use these in addition to the student’s book listening activities
use the listening booklet when you want to
- doa bit of extra listening
- use the tapescript
- do some pronunciation practice
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F Good morning, Mr Solomons MRS Good morning
T I'm very pleased to meet you
MRS Nice to meet you
F Erm, my name is Friederike Haberland MR S Friederike Haberland, (Yes) Right F Erm, first of all, I'd like to thank you
for giving us your time, We're very grateful
MRS (Mhm)You're welcome
F , that you made yourself free to come
‘to speak to us Erm, would you like
anything to drink?
MRS Er, yes, please, can I have a, er, a
coffee, please?
F Yes!
MRS Er, milk and no sugar
F Just milk, (That's right) OK I'll do that
right now (OK) Coffee, milk, there you go Now, Mr Solomons
MR S 0h, please call me Dan
Ế Thank you (Yeah) Dan, erm, I'd like to
now take you to the room, (Mhm)
where you're going to give the lecture
(Right) The students are already waiting there
MRS Oh, good, good
F Is about twenty of them, (Yeah) and erm, yeah, so shall we perhaps start talking about
MRS Yeah, no, I look forward to this, erm, I,
Tid like to talk about, er, history of
film, but is it all right if I talk about the film that I’m working on just at the moment?
F I think that would be great
MR S OK, good
F Yes, lets start with what you're doing
right now (Right) and then perhaps I
could ask you, ‘How did it all start?”
That's fine Yeah, we can start, er, with
what I’m doing and then (Yeah) and then perhaps talk about my career, and
then talk about film in general
F Yes, I think that would be great (0K) OK, let's go!
MRS Good:
MR
1.1
Yesterday, I was babysitting for this rich woman who lives on the ninth floor of a posh apartment block (Yeah) and when I got back from the playground with her kid, none of the lifts were working So I called Her Ladyship and told her the lifts were out of order, and do you know what she said? (No) She says, ‘Oh, honestly, Agrippine! Use the stairs!’ The stairs?’ I said ‘But I haven't got my Reeboks on! So she says, ‘For goodness
sake! It won't kill you!’ Not much! In those
shoes with a three-ton brat That woman's unbelievable! (Yeah) Anyway, T went up —
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nine floors, believe me, it’s no joke And when I get there she says, ‘But where's Caroline?’ So I said, ‘Downstairs, why?’ And she’s like, ‘What?!’ So I told her, ‘Calm down! Tl go and get her when they've fixed the lift! (Yeah) Anyway, she went berserk and fetched the child herself And then on top of everything, she refused to pay me Do you know a good lawyer?
1.2
1 found it hard to jump from a standing position
I found the balance test quite tricky Catching the ruler was very difficult I was hopeless at the leg strength test
1.3
Trude
About two years ago, I decided to give
Russian a try, so I went to evening classes, and it all seemed very exciting, and erm, but then I realized a few things I hadn‘t even thought about, and first of all that’s Cyrillic, ‘the Russian alphabet — it’s like, you feel like
a five-year-old again, because you can't read,
it takes ages to read one word, and secondly
in the Russian language, the words are so much longer So it’s actually quite hard to
learn the vocabulary And then, erm,
sometimes not everybody came to class, and
the next lesson a week later, we started
again at zero, because those other people
hadn't learnt what we'd learnt, and so we
made very slow progress, and in fact I got discouraged, because I thought, ‘Maybe it’s
no use, you know, and so I gave it up, but now I wish I'd practised a little, I'd practised a little bit more, these long, long words!
Julia
Well, erm, at the moment I’m seven and a
half months pregnant, and when I found out,
I decided that I’d sort of do a few things that might make me feel good during the
pregnancy, and one of them was to learn yoga, (Right) which I'd been meaning to do
for a long time, and hadn't, erm, so I went to
some classes in my area Erm, the teacher's fantastic, she’s quite eccentric, she wears a
big, like, white turban made of chiffon, right down to the floor, but the classes are
fantastic Erm, it takes a while to learn how
to do it, but erm, I just thought I’d, I'd have
a go and see if it made a difference And,
and it’s fantastic, and you feel really good
because after a while you start to get better at it, and it’s very rewarding, it makes you
feel very calm, erm, so you know, I think,
erm, I think I'll keep it up and erm, I wish
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a Listen to the examples Underline
the stressed words
1 found it hard to jump from a standing position,
I found the balance test quite tricky
Catching the ruler was very
difficult
Twas hopeless at the leg strength
test
b Listen again This time notice the
schwa /o/ in many of the
unstressed words, for example:
fol fal fal
1 found it hard to jump from a standing position
¢ Listen and repeat, paying attention to the stress,
1.3
Match the verbs on the left to the words on the right to form common phrases 1 make a something a try 2 have b a difference 3 get © ages 4 take d ago 5 make — e better (at something) 6 give £ progress Check with the answer key and the tapescript 1:3 Write words in the gaps to add emphasis
1 it all seemed exciting
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Eric
A couple of years ago, a girlfriend who I was seeing at the time, er, asked me to go to some dance classes to learn the Lindyhop, (Wow!) where you can dance to rock and roll music, (Yeah) and we had a great time, er, there were some classes on a Wednesday
night that you go off to for about an hour
and a half, and you meet some friendly people, er, you start off very slowly at first, (Hmm) and then after a while, after a few classes, you feel comfortable with the basic steps that you have to do, and generally speaking the more, er, I went, ef, you know, I felt I was getting better at what I was doing (Yeah) so, er, we had a lot of fun, the music was great, people were very friendly Erm, in the end, I wished that I had practised a bit harder, er, but, er, unfortunately (the) relationship broke up so, we didn’t dance much more after that
1.5
Conversation 1
E When I was little, er, my parents used to take me to my grandparents’ for dinner Did, did you do the same sort of thing? T Yes! A lot
E What I didn't like about it was, my mother always made my brother and I get dressed up You know, we had to put on
T Yes, I remember that That happened to me too!
E Yeah, and I had these very stiff shoes and a starched shirt, and oh, I didn’t like it at all
T Yes, but in my case it all fell apart pretty soon (Yeah) We'd all be dressed up, but then we'd behave so badly, and, erm, you know, we looked a mess, and everything was quite relaxed in the end (Right) Conversation 2
Julia Oh, you know, thinking about holidays, (Yeah) when you were a child, (Yeah) I remember we used to have these holidays that, where the weather was so bad, because it would be in this country, (Yeah) erm, and we'd lie on the beach, freezing cold, (0h) looking at the clouds (0h, terrible) I know
Juliet No, that wasn’t true for me at all We usually went, er, to Europe for our holidays (Oh, right) We, we'd go to different, erm, different countries, er, I remember probably the best holiday
was, er, Italy, we went to Italy one
summer and that was absolutely beautiful We had this villa just outside Florence
Oh, it wasn’t like that for us at all We'd be in the cinema every afternoon, couldn't go out, too cold
Julia
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1.6
M When T was really your
boys, reading was to do for school (Yes) Now
read to the teacher, or that I had to read for school all I ever did I never read anywi
Really?
Yes
You never read anything at home? I was not interested in reading at all
when T was young
T Really! (Yeah) Well, I was completely
crazy about ‘The Famous Five’ M Ah, Enid Blyton
T and that was private reading, that was not happening at school, and I remember
reading those books secretly at night, (Yeah) and having to very quickly switch
off the lamp when I heard my parents on
the corridor, because they could see the
light through the door, and it was so
exciting, and I so identified with this
character, Anne, (Yes) you know
M Well I, I read those books but I never
found them terribly interesting Well, of course, at school, and then at college,
everything you read, or everything that 1
read because I did, er, I studied law, was a very technical book, it was a book of information all the time, (Yeah) so all the other reading I did was for fun, was fiction
Fiction, yes
M and I liked things to be as, as mad as
possible, as fictional as possible, but strangely enough, since I've stopped studying, it’s gone the other way Now I
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a Try saying these words from the
tapescript How many syllables do they have? Write the number of syllables in brackets girlfriend (2) practised — ( ) Wednesday ( ) unfortunately ( ) comfortable ( ) relationship ( ) generally ( ) Now do the same with these words responsible () confidential () engineer () superstitious () unforgettable () embarrassing ( ) architecture () vegetarian ()
b Now underline the stressed
syllable in each word e.g girlfriend
Check with the answer key
1.5
Notice how we pronounce this
word from tapescript 1.5 The
underlined syllable is silent different /‘difrent/
Look at the following words
Underline the silent syllable in each word vegetable several interesting literature secretary favourite average chocolate strawberry comfortable Check with the answer key 1.6
Cover the tapescript Complete the
text below with these phrases identified with b as possible anywhere at night strangely enough found them terribly interesting switch off for fun = ““
M_ When I was really young, we, like a lot of boys, reading was something you had to do for school (Yes) Now I just used to read to the teacher, or read something that I had to read for school, and that's all I ever did, I never read
c else
T Really? M Yes
T You never reading anything at home? M_ Iwas not interested in reading at all
when I was young
T Really! (Yeah) Well, I was completely crazy about ‘The Famous Five’ M Ah, Enid Blyton
and that was private reading, that was not happening at school, and I remember reading those books secretly
, (Yeah) and having
to very quickly ° the
lamp when I heard my parents on the corridor, because they could see the light through the door, and it was so exciting,
and I'so * this
character, Anne, (Yes) you know M Well, Tread those books but I never
Well, of course, at school, and then at college, everything you read, or everything that I read because I did, er, I studied law, was a very technical book, it was a book of information all the time, (Yeah) so all the ather reading I did was was fiction 4 ¬ Fiction, yes and I liked things to be as, as mad , as fictional as _ bụt ° „ since
Ive stopped studying, it’s gone the other way Now I like to read books that are, erm, that are actually factual
=z
Check your answers with the
tapescript
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2.1
Er, there's this, erm, there's this quiet, polite young man, right, taking his seat on a plane and er, he suddenly, he realises there's a parrot sitting in the seat next to him He tries to ignore it, and, er, when the stewardess comes along, he orders a cup of coffee
Now, the parrot leans across and says rudely, ‘Get me a whisky now!” Anyway, the stewardess comes back with the whisky, but no coffee The parrot drinks up and shouts, ‘Hey, you! Another whisky, and make it quick!’ The stewardess comes back with another whisky, but still no coffee for the quy Now, by this stage, the man’s getting pretty fed up, so he decides to try the parrot’s strategy, and, er, he shouts, ‘Coffee now, or you'll never work for this airline again!
Right?’ A minute later, a big burly steward comes over, grabs hold of the man and the parrot, and throws them both out of the plane
Now, as they're falling towards the earth, the
parrot turns to the man and says, ‘Hey! That
was really brave of you Especially for someone who can't fly!” Oh, it’s not that bad! 2.2
Michael
Oh, we were checking in at the airport, er, going on holiday, and in front of us was a Greek man, and er, he produced this cardboard box, and said, ‘Erm, is it all right if 1 take this with me?" And inside the cardboard box was a hamster And of course, the people in the check-in said, ‘No, you can’t (Hmm) take a hamster’ and he said, ‘No, no, I, I must, it’s my pet hamster! and they said, ‘Well, you'll have to leave it here, you know, and, er, when you come back, it'll be all right! And he said, ‘Well, no, I'm not coming back’ and in fact, he was going back to Greece to live (0h!) so he would have to leave it behind In the end, he had to call a friend, and er, his friend took the hamster away, and it was terrible, the man was crying (Ah), he didn’t want the hamster to go (0h) Tt was really, it was quite funny, actually Oh, no, I mustn't laugh poor man
Lynne
Erm, I was supposed to go to Madrid, and it was just after Christmas, I think it was the 28th of December, and I arrived at the airport and I had my ticket and all my bags, and I went to check in, and the person opened my ticket and said, ‘You're actually a
week late, because my ticket had actually got
the wrong date on it And of course,
but I hadn't checked, and so my flight had left a week before So there I was with all my stuff, and I said, ‘Well, what am I gonna do?’ and they were fantastic, they actually got me on a flight, but it was the worst few seconds, and I thought, ‘I'm just not going anywhere!’
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2.3
Ralph
I was travelling through the Middle East, and erm, very aware of the fact that Isreel has very tight security at the airports, (Yeh) and, er, so I was doing everything I could possibly do to, to make sure that I was helping the people that were checking my luggage and checking my passports, and er, one of the guys, you know, opened my bag, my hand luggage, and er, was going through it, and took out my camera, (Hmm) and said, erm, ‘Please take a photo! (What?) I thought, and I was trying to be so helpful, I said, ‘Yes, certainly! and took out the camera, and started to take a photo of him (Yeah) Thought for some reason he wanted me to take a photo of him (Yeah) But at that, he
took my hand, and said, ‘No, no, not at me,
take it of the roof! So he asked me to take a photo of the roof, and I thought, ‘What is all this about?" (How strange!) and it was afterwards I realized that they're actually checking to make sure it was actually a camera, and not some sort of weapon (Oh, gosh, yes!) And by me trying to be helpful, I was aiming this supposed weapon right at face He was going ‘No! No!’ (Oh, how funny!) It’s amazing, the security You just don’t think
2.4
A Is the museum open on Sundays? Yes, I'm pretty sure it is Do students get a reduction?
Tm not too sure about that
B A B
A Do they provide sightseeing tours? B I don't really know, to be honest
A Do you know what time the river trips
are?
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TIO Morning Can I help you?
T Hi, yeah, I'm just in town, just for today (Mhm), erm, I wonder if you have a map 1 can have a look at?
TIO Yes, I do, here, there's, er, there's one here
T Oh, right Erm, can you recommend any places to see?
TIO Mm, er, I can recommend a few I don't know how long you've got It’s worth going to more than one site if possible (Yeah) We've got a lot of attractive things in this town, Let me see, erm, the main thing really, I suppose, is the castle,
T Oh, right
T10 Still lived in by the owner, but, but you can get in in the afternoons between two and five I don’t know if that’s of
any interest
T Yeah, where is that in relation to where we are now?
TIO OF course, yes On the map here, look, it's just down that road there, towards the river Do you see?
T Oh, yes, yeah, I see
TIO Now there, that's the theatre museum, next to the castle The theatre museum is well worth a visit It’s open all day, erm and Ít costs five euros to get in T Five euros, OK Anything else you can
recommend?
T1O Erm, let do you like art? T Erm, yeah, perhaps
THO Yes, well, you should go and see the Modern Art and Photography Museum It's here we are, look
T No, no, no, I don’t, don't really fancy, no
TIO Right I would recommend the river trips T Oh, right, yeah, that sounds interesting T10 I don’t know yes, if you've got time,
em
T Yeah, what does that cost?
TIO They're four-fifty (OK) each, and two- fifty for children (Mhm), er, but you can see here, it goes down to the bridge, er, you go left along the river a bit The scenery along the river at this time of year is spectacular (Yes) It goes all the way up to the waterfall, look, just there T Oh, right, yeah, that sounds interesting TIO And, let's see on your way back, if
you got off here, there's a bird park T Oh, right!
TIO Only been open (Yeah) six months Erm, we're very proud of it, there are a lot of exotic birds, and they're all in natural
surroundings Now that costs ten-fifty to get in 8 3 8 unittwo something
CU Hope so Can you recommen for insect bites?
CH Hmm Are they mosquito bites? CUI think so I don't
CH Do you mind if I, can I see them? CU OK, it’s
CH Oh, right, oh, yeah, do they itch? CU Yeah
CH Yeah OK, er, I recommend an anti-itching cream I think if you put that on and the most important thing is not to scratch them (Yeah) Because you'll be
tempted
CU I know I've got sensitive skin, though You sure it’s gonna be ?
CH You'll be OK with this cream (Yeah?) It’s very, very mild, but that should help you You know, prevention is the most important thing, so could I also recommend an insect repellent spray for you to spray in your room at night? CU OK, that’s a good idea
CH Yeah? OK, I'll get you one of those, and that way (OK, lovely) you won't have the bites Yeah
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Look at the conversation between the tourist and the tourist
information officer They often use
Yeah, Oh, Right, er, erm, yes, and well
They do this:
to show agreement to hesitate
to show they are listening
Underline all the examples of these words
What words or phrases do you use in these situations in your
language?
Try to use these words next time
you have a conversation in
English
2.6
We don’t usually stress auxiliary
verbs, unless they are in the negative form
Look at this question from 2.6
Notice the unstressed auxiliary
verb
Can /kan/ I help you? Now look at these examples are /o/ Where are you going? do /d/ or /da/ Do you like it? does /daz/ Does he know her? has /s/ or /haZ/ or /9Z/
What has he done? have /hav/ or /av/
They could have gone had /d/ or /hod/ If only he had known was /woz! I was just thinking about you were /wo/
What were you doing yesterday? Practise saying the examples
(remember not to stress the
auxiliary verb), How fast can you
say them?
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3.1
What shall we do? I'm so bored
Do you wanna watch the telly? Naah, there's only kids’ stuff on Got any good videos?
The video's not working How about the pictures? There's nothing on I'm broke anyway
Anyone fancy a game of tennis? Oh, no, I can't stand tennis You got any better ideas?
What about going down to Megastore and
listening to music? Naah it’s too far Yd rather stay here Yeah, me too You're all pathetic
Hello? Hang on, I'll check if she’s here Agrippine? It’s your mum I'll put her on What? With you? Shopping and the pictures?
I can't I've got too much on
3.2 1
I don’t actually think that young people want us to share their music with them sometimes, and so in fact, they want to have music that we hate, so we have to be a bit careful about identifying too closely with, with what they like,
2
My wife and my daughter are always going out together They go to discos all the time, I mean, my daughter thinks my wife is ‘cool’ and so do 1, but she wouldn't be seen dead ina place with me
3
Erm, yeah, I mean, I definitely wouldn't go with my parents I mean, you'd feel all self- conscious, and you wouldn't want to dress up because, you know, they might make comments on how you look, and it would be quite embarrassing, really
4
My kids love seeing me dance It really makes them laugh, and I don’t mind that
particularly, so I think on the odd occasion,
to have the opportunity to all go out and
they can have a really good laugh at their mum is, er, is gonna, is gonna really bring us together and brighten up the odd boring Saturday night
5
Yeah, er, a few months ago, erm, I started going with my dad to this disco, that is, er,
for, er, people to go with their parents, which seemed like a bit of a stupid idea at first, but
actually, it’s worked out really well ‘cos, my
dad does shift work, so we don’t see a lot of him at home, and like, this is a whole evening when I’m with him, erm, and then,
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er, well, the other good home at the end comes in the car, so
3.3
P And my next quest is Candy Ds
producer of a new, TV sun ‘Eden’, which I believe, Car the Australian rainforest CD That's right
P Interesting So once you've decided on
the location, what, would you say, is the
next step?
CD Well, the next step, er, the major next
step is to decide what kind of group we
are actually looking for to take part in the show, you know, the age range, gender,
their abilities, (Mmm) that sort of thing
P So tell us about er, the ratio between men and women on the show
CD Well, we had a lot more applications from men than women, erm, as you'd expect,
er, but we decided in the end to have six
of each to get that balance Erm, we had
lots of very strong female applicants
P Mhm And er, what about their ages? CD Well, you know, that was difficult to
decide at first Er, in the end, we
narrowed it down to between eighteen and twenty-five Er, we felt we couldn't go
below eighteen, as er, those kids would've needed consent from their parents to go
on the programme, and we decided to
design the programme for that age range
anyway, you know, late teens, early twenties
P Right, so, so no one of our age anyway
CD No!
P But so, what about their skills? I mean,
being so young, er, would they need any
particular skills to, to, to survive?
CD Not really, no Erm, we were going to give
them some basic survival training anyway, (Mhm) and teach them various skills that they'd need so we weren't looking for any
particular professions as such Erm, our
main priority was the character of the
people, erm, you know (Right) interesting
people (Right, right) who were going to be interesting on screen
P But I mean, they wouldn't need any sort
of particular level of fitness, for example?
CD I think they would have to be moderately
fit, yes, and of course we had to give everyone a medical check-up, (Mm) but
that was all Erm, not, not particularly
super fit, er, because it’s also, you know,
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3.2
a Listen and notice how the speakers:
pause at the end of certain phrases
vary the speed at which speak
They do this to give themselves
time to think, and sometimes to
help the listener to follow what they are saying
b Listen again and read aloud at the
same time 3.2
Look at how we pronounce this
adjective from tapescript 3.2
self-conscious Jself konfas/
We don’t usually stress suffix endings in English, so the ending
-ious in self-conscious is not stressed
Look at these examples of words with suffix endings: adjectives nouns delicious difference believable appearance confident mechanism useless architecture natural government backwards happiness
Underline the stressed syllables
Check with the answer key and
practise saying the words
Think of another word for each
type of ending and check the pronunciation in your dictionary 3.3
Cover the tapescript Complete the phrases in bold in a logical way
1 Eden is in the
Australian rainforest
2 Thenext sas to
decide what kind of group we wanted 3 the age range, gender, abilities, that sort of 4 We decided in the to have six of each Finally, we narrowed it to between
eighteen and twenty-five
The age range was late
to early twenties
7 The main _ was
the character of the people
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P So, in the end, er, Candy, how did you decide on your final twelve?
CD Well, erm, we made a shortlist, er, from hundreds of people that applied, down to thirty-two, er, and the final selection took a couple of days, actually, we got all
the thirty-two people together, we got
them to prepare a one-minute talk each, selling themselves Er, we arranged various group activities for them to assess how they actually mixed together, who
were the natural leaders - we don’t want
a whole group of leaders to be on the programme, that would cause problems P A recipe for disaster!
CD Absolutely! And we asked them to play
team games, you know, we got them to
make a simple rope bridge to get across a river, for instance, little challenges like that to see how well they'd cope Er, we also got psychologists involved in that selection, erm, and then there were individual interviews too, to finalize the final twelve that were going to go off into the rainforest and survive
P Hmm, tremendously exciting Well, erm, best of luck with the show, er, which will be on your screens shortly ~ Eden! CD Yes! P Thanks very much for joining us CD Thank you 12 unit three 3.5
Originally I'm from Glasgow, but I was brought up in Manchester I went into banking soon after leaving school, but decided it wasn’t for me - I've always had itchy feet I got a job on a cruise ship and travelled the world for eighteen months Since I got back, I've been working as a
fitness instructor; I'm a keen gymnast My
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4.1
OK, so there's this man, and he goes to the cinema one evening, er, to see a comedy, and er, he goes into the cinema, (the) usherette shows him to his seat and he sits down Takes him a bit of time to adjust to the darkness, but after a while, he's surprised to see that there’s a woman in front of him, and next to her, sitting on the seat, is a collie dog, but what's even more weird is that the dog seems to be getting all the jokes, and, and, it's, the dog's laughing in all the right places
So, er, the man, he's really puzzled by this, so he taps the woman on the shoulder, and says, ‘Erm, excuse me, but, erm, I, you know,
I don't want to, er, I don’t want to interrupt
or anything, but is your dog really laughing at the film?’
And, er, and the woman turns to him and says, ‘Yes, I'm a bit taken aback myself he hated the book!
4.2 Juliet
1 go to the cinema whenever I can, erm, er, it depends whether there's anything good on
or not, erm, I'm quite choosy about what I
like to see Er, I prefer to go to the cinema on my own, because I find other people and their responses distracting, erm, and I don't Like having to talk about films after T’ve seen them, immediately after I've seen them
Julia
I go to the cinema quite a lot, erm, but it
depends, it depends really how much time I've got or what I'm doing Erm, sometimes 1 go every night for a phase and see everything
that’s on, and then I may not go again for,
erm, a month or so
Michael
T hardly ever go to the cinema because I've got two small children and so going out on my own is difficult, and when I do go to the cinema, I go with my children so in fact I see, er, children’s films, so I haverrt seen an adult film at the cinema for years
Eric
1 go to the cinema whenever I can, and, and 1, and I sit in the back row, I sit in the back, and I watch whatever film is on, and I stay through the credits, and sometimes I'll sneak
into the other cinemas, you know, that are
+ multiplex, if there's six cinemas, T'll go into number five, even if I've paid for a ticket for number six, and I, whatever's on, I just love it, I'm really, I'm really fanatical about movies I love cinema
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43
Oh, hi, hi, it’s me
Er, nothing no, no
No, no, no, no, TF and Tl be home, er, usual
Yeah, erm, I couldn't get 2 news
sold out at the station, so es
Yeah, well, I just thought I'd give you a ring
Hmm You had a good day?
J Hello?
Oh, hi, hi, it’s me Oh, hi, hi, so what's up? Er, nothing, no, no, just calling Oh, you missed the train or something? No, no, no, no, I'm on the usual train (AlL right), yeah and T'll be home, er, same time as usual
Oh, OK
N Yeah, erm, I couldn’t get a newspaper,
they'd sold out at the station, so erm
J Oh that's all right, Tve got one N Yeah, well, I just thought I'd give you a
ring J OK
N- Hmm You had a good day? J Um, yeah, pretty ordinary ~ nothing
particularly exciting's happened Erm, yeah, what about you?
Oh, yeah, yeah, no it's been fine Oh except, uh, Susie's going Susie's going Oh, really?
Yeah, my secretary, you know Oh yeah
Yeah, she's, erm, she’s leaving Oh, oh, OK
Yeah, so I've got, er, I've got a new girl
starting next week
Right No Mmm Mmm
J Oh, hang on a minute, er, er, I've just got to get to the stove Hang on Erm,
something's erm, it’s all right I'm over here now
What is it darling? What's, what's for dinner?
3 Er, no I've just, er, I've just put a chicken in and, erm, and (Oh, right) I was just, er, turning the heat down, now it's just roasting It'll be ready when you, (Great) when you get back
Looking forward to it
J Yeah Oh, oh, now listen, ve just remembered Er, we've got strawberries for dessert, (Uhuh) but, erm now you'll be passing the supermarket, won't you? Erm, can you get some cream on the way back? N_ Yeah sure, no problem
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D Hello?
C Oh, David Hi, it’s Clare
D Hi Clare Oh dear, that must be bad news, then
C Yeah, afraid so Listen, the thing is, I'm stuck on this train There's, there's been a
rail crash (Oh no), yeah
D Nothing serious, I hope
€ T've no idea They're not telling us
anything All we know
D You're all right?
C Yeah, yeah It wasn’t our train (Oh, I
see) I think it’s something between
Birmingham and London I’m not sure (Right) But listen, they say we're going
to be here for about an hour and a half,
so I won't be getting in until 12.30,
You won't, er train station at 12.30,
huh C Yeah
D You won't get to the office until, it'll be, ‘it'll be, it'll be one o'clock, or so
€ know Listen, I'm so sorry What about
the meeting?
D Well, we'll be having lunch then Um,
what I, what I suggest you do is come
straight to the restaurant when you arrive
C Hang on, just, let me just grab a pen
Which, which restaurant will you be in?
D We're in La Campanina C La Campanina, yeah
D Yeah, It’s, it’s just around the corner when you walk out of the office (Yeah)
It’s the first left and then the next left is a little mews and it’s right there on the
o
corner € Right
D La Campanina You can't miss it € I'm David, I’m so sorry
D_Itll be fine Don't you worry, (Oh) Just
get there when you get there 4.5 www.oup.com/elt/naturalenglish CNN.COM/WEATHER ros.edwards@hotmail.com (Thats all lower case.) julio (that's j-u-L-i-o) @ctves * www.bath.co.uk/leisure 4.6 A Iwas wondering if you could help me? B Sure, no problem A Do you think you could possibly give me a hand?
Til see what I can do
A Is there any chance you could do this for me?
B I'm afraid I can't - I've got to see the boss
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Cover the tapescript Look at these e.arcdo Buy boxe Howetany de
phrases from tapescript 4.4 you find?
Can you remember the order in bored wore bare stair which you heard them? see wait’ saw whether
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Fiked nek where caught
© we'll be having lunch Check with the answer key
(0 Hello
O rm stuck on this train 4.6 f
D you can’t miss it Listen and notice how the
4 a rail crash intonation is quite musical
Liat eise ie eae Practise saying the questions Try
they're not telling us anything to imitate the intonation ~ it will
Listen without the tapescript, and help you sound polite
check your answers Then check, with the tapescript
4.4
Look at these words from
tapescript 4.4
so /sau/ hour /'a0a/
one /won/ there /dea/
Now look at these words
sew /sau/ our /A0a/
won /won/ their /Sea/ They are pronounced in exactly the same way as the first examples,
but they are spelt differently Pairs of words like this (for example so /
sew) are called homophones a For each word below, think of
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OK, class, here are your tests back Go over them carefully and see me if you've
got any questions
Hang on! What the hell’s this? Hey! Let me
have a look at your paper Right!
Miss, you've given Matthew 8 out of 10, but
Tve only got 1 out of 10 That's just
not fair, I mean, I copied it all from him Yes, but Matthew chose the first question: “The natural resources of Central Asia’
Yeah?
and you did the second one: ‘The evolution of the Amazon rainforest
5.2
You won't believe this story I read in the
paper recently See, this guy had just passed
his test and he, he was driving across
America on vacation, and he stopped off in different places to sleep Anyway, one day,
he'd been driving for a couple of hours, and he decided to stop for something to eat, and
when he came out of the restaurant, he got
in the car and, and it wouldn't start And he discovered that someone had stolen his
battery and drained the gas tank (No!) So, so, he, he went to the nearest garage to buy another battery and some gas, and when he got back, he, he found to his amazement that
the two front wheels had been stolen too I mean, he must have been furious, but
anyway, he didn’t have much choice but to
go and buy two more wheels, and he returned
to find - as you might guess - that the whole car had disappeared (Oh, no!) Yeah,
50 anyway, he went off to the police station
where he found out that a policeman had
come by, and had seen the car without the front wheels, and assumed that it had been abandoned, and, and so he arranged for, for
it to be taken away, (Oh!) What a vacation! (Mm!)
5.3
Er, this er, stupid thing happened to me when I was erm, doing my driving test,
excuse me, it must have been about twenty
years ago, and I was taking my test in this town called Crawley, and er, it wasn’t going well, we'd been doing all the usual things,
turns, stops, everything, (Hmm) very nervous, very hot, and er, I remember the instructor —
T just heard the words, I didn’t really think much about it he just said, Turn right here,
next right, please, turn right at the next
turning please’ and I looked in the mirror, indicated like you do, and just turned and went straight into the entrance of a multi- storey car park, er, the barrier in front of us, another car now behind us, erm, wound down the window and had to take the ticket, and then we went forward with cars behind us and had to go up two levels to find the exit, er, descend the two levels, arrived at the exit,
18 unit five
barrier, and I had no change, so I had to ask
the instructor for 50p to get the barrier to go
up and get out, and, erm, I failed! (Surprise!) Strange!
5.4 Lucy
So anyway, my boyfriend wrote in to this
programme, erm, and said I could do this big, physical challenge, no problem at
all, and of course he didn’t tell me
anything about it, (No) he just wrote secretly, so the next thing I knew was a TV
crew was coming round to my house, and
they knocked on the door, and they said, “Hello! and, ‘You're going to be doing a bungee jump out of a helicopter, over the Grand Canyon!’ I said, ‘You must be joking!”
(Yeah) but, the thing is, Td actually done a bungee jump before (Hmm) I was I'd been really terrified, (Yeah) but I didn’t have
the nerve to say I didn’t want to do it So
they, they flew us off to the Grand Canyon
and we sort of did a little bit of training first
of all, and I was getting more and more
nervous all the time, erm, in fact, I was even more nervous than last time because I knew
what to expect (Yeah), and er, we flew around, and finally they, they said, ‘Well, OK,
it’s time to do it now, are you ready to go?”
And I was shaking I was, I was really
petrified (Yeah) And somebody said to me,
"You don’t want to do this, do you” and I thought, TI can’t, I can’t say; but I was nearly
in tears and finally I said, ‘No, I can’t do it, T actually can’t do it, and so they decided that
they would land the helicopter and we wouldn’t go through with it, and it was such
a relief to be back down on the ground, But of course, I felt, I felt really awful because I
hadn't actually done the challenge, and er, I was going to get a lot of, of trouble from my
boyfriend, and you know, and the programme just, you know, wasn’t going to be made, (Hmm)
David
1 was in the audience, er, for this TV
programme, and er, the presenter asked if
anybody was prepared to, er, accept a challenge, and my wife grabbed my hand and
stuck it in the air, and this presenter took us both down to the, erm, the studio floor in front of the whole audience
Now, at this stage, I wasn’t that nervous but
I didn’t know what was just around the
corner for me, Now, there was this glass
booth and the presenter told me that there was a spider in there They wanted me to go
and sit in the booth for 30 seconds They knew in advance that I was scared stiff of spiders, because my wife had written to the
show Anyway, I was dreading the thought of
going into the box, erm, into the, into the
booth, but erm, obviously I didn’t want to let myself down in front of millions of viewers,
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5.5
Surprisingly, I wasn’t that nervous before the exam
The food wasn’t that good when you consider the price
5.6
O Er, I think the most stressful
experience in my life are my university finals, er, because you know, that really was the most important thing in my life at that time, (Hmm) but looking back on it now, I mean, it was just crazy In what way?
0 Er, well, I mean, I actually worked
quite hard in the lead-up to the exams, erm, and er, I mean with the revision timetable I had, I was, Ï was actually working on eight different exams, which was just uh, that’s what was crazy
that’s what was crazy, erm, and en for my first exam, erm, I was, you know, I was really nervous, and erm, I knew actually I'd done very badly, because none of the questions Tid expected and revised for came up (Oh) Erm, and the next exam, erm, one student started screaming, (No!) Yeah! They had to be dragged out by the invigilator Erm, and then after the final exam, oh, I just felt brilliant for an hour, I mean the relief was just incredible, and we all celebrated, all, all my friends and I got together, but there was also, erm, a sense of anticlimax too, (Hmm) you know, erm, and then of course the results
came about ten days later, on this
huge noticeboard, erm, and you know, we didn’t really want to look, but, erm, to my great relief I'd got through
J Oh, well done
0 yeah, so I was one of the people who was laughing and hugging, but some people were crying and others were terribly shocked, you know,
when they hadn’t got what they
wanted and, oh, I just, I mean I couldn't help thinking, ‘What stress! What misery it all was! (Hmm)
5.2
a Circle all the examples of so, anyway, and so anyway
Why are they used? Check with
the natural English box on p.59 of
the student's book
b Find phrases in the tapescript
which mean: he spent the night
he couldn’t get the car to go
to his surprise
Timagine he was very angry
he had no alternative
6 as you can imagine Rune
Check with the answer key
5.3
Listen without the tapescript and
tick (W) the verbs that Martin uses
in the simple past Not all of the verbs listed are in the tapescript to happen w“ 1o look to do to indicate to see to turn to take to carry to hear to go forward to think to have to to say to find to decide to fail Check with the answer key 5.4
Look at first line of David's story, but cover the rest of the text Try to
predict the first word of the next line
Now look at the second line of the text and try to predict the first word of the third line
Continue like this for the whole
story
5.6
Look at tapescript 5.6 The conversation has two main topics: exams and feelings
Circle the words connected with
exams in this context in one colour, and the words connected with feelings in a different colour Check with the answer key Notice
how the coloured circles help to
hold the conversation together
The next time you listen to a
conversation in English, listen for repetition of words and ideas
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There's an artist who's not very successful, and he has all his paintings in one gallery, and er, so one day, he rings up the man from the gallery and he says, ‘Look, has anyone shown any interest in any of my paintings? They've been there for years’ And er, the art gallery owner says, ‘Well, actually, erm, I've got some good news, and some bad news
Erm, which, which do you want to hear first?”
So the man says, ‘Well, er, give me the good news; so he says, ‘OK, right A man came in the other day and he was really interested in your paintings In fact, he, he wanted to know if they would appreciate in value after you die, and I said, ‘Yes, of course they would! So he said, ‘Right! In that case, I'll buy the lot! So he bought all of your paintings Isn’t that great!’ And the, and the artist was over the moon, he said, ‘That’s fantastic! That's brilliant! What, what's the bad news?’ And the, erm, the, the owner of the gallery says, ‘Well, erm, he's your doctor! (Oh, horrible) It is a bit sad 6.2 I couldn't manage without my personal stereo Malaria tablets would be absolutely essential in the Amazon Td have to have my diary with me, 20 unit six 6.3 there are eight main, er, channels, television channels «+ they both have their news at eight o'clock $0 you get really a non-stop news service on different channels
probably the best time, er, for Italian social life, for news, is in fact eight o'clock
part 1
W so what you get in Italy is, erm, there are eight main, er, channels, television
channels, and they each have their own,
news programme, and because there are so many of them, they have to have the news on at different times of day The two main channels, which are RAI one and Canale Cinque, Channel Five, they both
have their news at eight o'clock, but all
‘the other minor channels kind of fit in
around that, so you get really a non-stop
news service on different channels (Oh,
right) which you can follow by channel- hopping from seven really, till about
midnight, which is, erm, you know, for
news, ef, people who are really keen on
the news, they can, they do that all the time, Erm, but I think probably the best time, er, for Italian social life for news is in fact eight o'clock when the two main channels have theirs, ‘cos that’s when Italian families are sitting down to, to
supper, (Oh) and they tend to watch it
while they’re eating L Do they?
W Yeah
part 2
L_ And are there different programmes for say, young people or older people? W It doesn’t quite work like that in Italy, 1
would say, erm, historically the Italian,
erm, news teams are dominated by political parties, which means that if you watch the different ones, you'll notice the difference of political perspective Uhuh Bit like newspapers?
W Rather like newspapers in this country (Yeah), that, that, that’s the way it works out, erm, and they tend to be quite sort of, headline-based, you don’t get, analysis inside, er, the news programmes You get that separately in discussion programmes in which, erm, major figures of the different political parties or the trades
unions will sit round and, and argue out a news point one by one,
Right, right
W That's how it works But another very big thing in Italian news is the personalities of the people who present it
Yeah, I was going to ask about that W Very different from this country where
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F The thing you notice about the news in Australia is that it’s not all about
‘Australia, ‘cos we have a very multi- racial society - big population of
Ttalians, lots of Asians, and
particularly in Melbourne where I'm
from, you have lots of Europeans, first generation living in Melbourne, so the news tends to cover not just
what's happening locally but what's happening internationally, (Yeah, yes) you know And we have a whole, erm,
channel dedicated to, erm, ethnic, er,
programmes and so the news,
particularly on that channel, is presented by people of different
ethnic origins
L_ Oh, and does that include different
languages as well?
F That's right, yes There's quite a few,
erm, languages spoken on those programmes and theyll all have English subtitles (Uhuh) and so
that’s, that's really interesting So
you get a kind of mix of influences,
and people in Australia are generally
really interested in current affairs, in
what's going on in the world (Yeah), and what's going on politically in
Australia, and erm, and very in touch, so the news tends to be quite
dynamic, lots of getting out there on
the street and interviewing people about what they think, (Yeah, yeah) because Australians always have a lot to say about what’s going on
6.3
Certain words are used to refer
back to things that have been
mentioned before in a
conversation You need to make the connections as you listen so that
you can understand the
conversation as a whole
a Look at these examples:
several people have Be s ) kidnapped by the rebels-This/could lead to further violence in the
region.’ :
The word This refers back to the whole of the previous sentence
“You don’t getdhe weather report
during the news You get What in a
separate bulletis
The word that refers back to the weather report
b Look at the underlined words in
the tapescript What do these
underlined words refer back to?
Check with the answer key
6.4
a Put the words in these phrases in
the correct order, without looking at the tapescript 1 all / English / they / subtitles / / have 2 influences / you / a kind of / of / get / mix
3 Australia are / in current / people
in / affairs / really interested /
generally
4 tends / to be / news / quite / the
7 dynamic
to say / always / about / on / going / Australians / a lot / have
4 whats
b Listen to the second part of the
interview, which starts That's right, to check your answers
Then check with the tapescript
Trang 236.5 Conversation 1 R Excuse me, (Hmm) can you spare a minute or two? I Yes, OK
Great, well, Tử like to know how you feel about the proposed ban on smoking in bars and restaurants
I Yeah, I feel quite strongly about that, actually, I think they should ban it in all public buildings - i's a disgusting habit anyway R_ That's fine, thank you very much 1 0K Conversation 2 R_ Excuse me, have you got a moment? I Er, sure,
R Well, could I ask you what you think about people who have cosmetic surgery to make themselves look younger or more attractive?
1 Er, it doesn’t really bother me, actually, erm, if people want to spend a fortune on a beautiful nose or perfect teeth, that’s up to them Erm, it's not really my business, is it? R- Lovely, thanks 1 Thanks Conversation 3 Excuse me, are you in a hurry? No, why? Well, do you mind if I ask you a question? Yeah, OK
Great Well, could you tell me if you are worried about the amount of housing that’s being built in the countryside? I It's a difficult issue, really - I mean, on
the one hand, we need more housing, but, er, at the same time, I can see why people get upset about losing all our green space R_ That's great, thanks a lot poms 22 unitsix 6.6
Good afternoon, I'm Jane Barratt, and this is the one o'clock news
Two prisoners who escaped from Moorhouse
prison yesterday are still on the run
The two men, Martin Runcie and Alec Duffy, are both believed to be armed and dangerous
Police have warned the public not to
approach them, but to contact the nearest
police station immediately if they think they
have seen them
Dino Walker, the Canfield goalkeeper, has been arrested The police have not given any
information about the arrest, but Canfield Football Club have said they will make a statement later on today This follows a recent story and rumours about Walker in
national newspapers
News is coming in of an explosion at a house
in Denton We understand fire and ambulance
services are already on the scene and the
surrounding area has been evacuated The cause of the explosion is not known, and it is
not known whether there are any casualties
Tt has been reported that two families in
6.7
Good evening I'm Peter Davidson, and this is the 6 o'clock news
The two prisoners who escaped from Moorhouse prison last night have been recaptured Earlier this afternoon, a house in the Stockton area was surrounded by the police, This followed a tip-off from a neighbour who saw the men entering the house and recognized them Mrs Carole Davis, the 65-year-old owner of the house, was briefly taken hostage, but the prisoners gave themselves up after negotiations with the police, and Mrs Davis was not harmed People living in the Denton area have been allowed to return to their homes, following the explosion there earlier today Firefighters rescued two children who were upstairs, but their injuries are not thought to be serious The ground floor of the house was badly damaged It is believed that the parents of the children were out at work
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Look at these words Notice how
we pronounce the letters in bold
fof Jal Jus
delicious touch you
Jao! fox! about brought
Put the words in the box into five groups, according to the
pronunciation of the letters in
bold
rumour surrounding trouble
wounds source route
ought doubt serious
pound through pour
couple drought thorough
Check with the answer key
6.7
Look at the tapescript Underline the examples of the passive form
in each news story Which tenses are used? Check in the answer key
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Agrippine, where on earth have you been? T've been worried sick And you didn’t stay at Sophie's last night I rang her
You're spying on me! Look, we couldn't get a taxi so we stayed at Cassia’s, OK?
Who's ‘we’? Were there boys there?
Yeah Listen, I've told you, we couldn't get a taxi,
Now you listen to me! I want to know where
you are at night!
So what am I supposed to do? Sleep in the streets? Hitchhike and get mugged? Honestly! I try and do everything right, and you just have a go at me
But why didn’t you ring?
I didn’t want to wake you, Because I worry about you!!
7.2
Gareth
Td be very willing to help a child who has problems with reading or with writing,
because, erm, when I was small, I, I had
great trouble reading and writing, er, and I
had a wonderful teacher who helped me, and
T just think it would be great to, to, to do
that for, for somebody else
Td be reluctant to take somebody's dog for a
walk, you know, if an old person er, asked me
to exercise their dog a couple of times a
week, because frankly, I just don’t like dogs,
erm, just, I've had bad experiences with them, er, and I wouldn’t want to take on the responsibility, frankly
DeNica
Erm, I'd be prepared to, er, give up a
weekend of mine to clear some wasteland, which could then be used for a children’s
playground I'd find that very satisfying, erm, because when I was younger I didn’t have
anywhere to play at all, so I'd really enjoy
doing that
Erm, I've never liked, erm, actually
babysitting, and especially to babysit three, small, noisy children regularly would do my
head in I just would find that very difficult, so I wouldn't be keen on that
Derek
Well, you know, I'd be quite happy to babysit, er, noisy children I don’t mind it, because I make a lot of noise myself, do you
know what I mean? I mean, the thing is, you
know, they're children, ain't they? They're children, they wanna, they wanna be out having some fun, they wanna be jumping around and: playing, so I wouldn’t mind, I'd babysit for these three, er, small noisy children I'd babysit three big noisy children, frankly, ‘cos, you know, it's about having fun, isn't it? 24 unit seven T D T T 40
David, can you tell us a little bit about
the charity event you were involved in
last week?
Yes, we needed to raise some money to buy a mini-bus to take young people to a
training centre (Right) just outside town,
and we decided it would be a good idea
to organize a disco (Mhm) and, er, then
we thought, well if we really wanted to
make it a good event, we'd get a, a well
known DJ, somebody quite well known,
we asked Cosmic Kev in fact, (Right) to come and DJ for us, and he, he agreed
And so how did it go?
Ah, I'd love to say it went well, but I think our inexperience showed because
the cost of the marquee that we hired,
(Ah) we had this huge marquee, er, was, was very, very expensive, er, and then, we
had to have lights and the music system
was expensive, and Cosmic Kev turned out
to be, erm, he turned out to have quite a high fee (Oh) Because of that, we, we, we'd made quite a big charge on the door, erm, which not many people could afford, a lot of the young people couldn't do it, so it started to go wrong there, and even older people that probably had money,
didn’t really, they'd never heard of Cosmic
Key, (Aha) and they didn’t really want to
come so it was very poorly attended, erm,
and obviously the charity, erm, our
charity, we didn’t make the money that
we thought we would so
Well, David, I'm so sorry to hear that
Well, I wish you better luck for next time
Yeah, we'll do it next time
But it certainly was an experience!
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Complete the gaps All the words
you need are in tapescripts 7.3 and
7.4 First do the exercise without
the tapescript, and then use the tapescript to help you
1 The party was a success
= everyone loved it
2 She'sa friend; I've
known her for years and I'd tell
ĩ her anything
| 3 The disco was very
attended — only ten people
turned up
4 He had the ticket, and
his prize was a holiday in Jamaica
5 We had to money for
the children’s playground, so we organized a lottery
6 The lawyer charged a fee
and we couldn’t afford it
Check with the answer key
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T Gareth, can you tell us a little bit about the charity project you were involved in? G Yes, certainly Erm, I'm a member of a
sports club, and we wanted to raise money for disabled children, (Mhm) and so we organized a monthly lottery, er, and every month the, the chairman of our sports club would pick out a, a winning ticket from a drum (Right) and a local company would, er, provide the prizes T And so how did it go?
G It was a great success, erm, and we raised a lot of money
T Fantastic!
G Yeah, except that, erm, after a few mạnths, one of the members noticed that the winning ticket (Yeah) always seemed to belong to a close friend or a relative (Uhuh) of the chairman of the club, who was the man who was doing the draw (Ah) And he became so suspicious that he looked inside the drum one day (Yeah) to discover that the winning ticket in fact had been stuck to the inside of the drum (No!) with a piece of chewing gum, so that when the chairman took out the ticket, he always knew where it was (Now,
that's terrible!) and that ticket always
belonged to one of his friends or relatives, (No!) and erm, I'm afraid one evening, two policemen came along to the club and arrested our chairman T Oh, but that's terrible!
7.5
Interview 1
PL Come in! MC Hello
PL Oh, oh, yes, Miss, Miss Cartwright, erm, (um) Carter, Carter, Carter, (Yes) er, I'm Peter Lewis, the, er, the personnel manager
MC How do you do? Um, where would you like me to sit?
PL That's fine, where you are MC Right Oh, could I put my coat
somewhere?
PL Yes, take it off, by all means
MC It's hot in here Thank you Shall I just leave it heré?
PL Where you like MC Thank you
PL Right I’m not very clear from your application whether you're married or not Are you? MC Erm, no, no, erm, Miss Carter, it should Say, EF Interview 2 DS Come in! CW Hello?
DS Hello, it’s Catherine Walker, isn’t it? CWY&s, that's right
26 unit seven
DS David Scott How do you do? CW Oh, how do you do? Nice to meet you DS Very nice to meet you too Can I take
your coat?
CWOh, thank you, yes, er there you go
Ds Not raining too much out there, I hope? CWOh, no, no, it’s just, erm, just drizzling,
really
DS (I'm) sure it'U stop If you could, er, have
a seat
CW 0h, thank you very much, yeah DS Er, well, first of all thank you very, very
much for coming Erm
CWOh, that’s a pleasure, no, I'm delighted to be here
DS Well, we're delighted to see you Er, you found us all right, I presume
CWO, yes, yes, no, your instructions were really, really clear
DS Fine, oh, well, that’s good, that’s excellent, Well, I'd like to start if I might by saying I was very impressed, erm, by your CV and particularly, er, by the fact that you've had work experience in Malawi (There we are) 7.6 1A Thank you very much for coming B Not at all A As I said, I'll let you know as soon as possible
B That's great, thank you
2 A Right, well, it was very nice meeting you
B Yes, thank you
A So, Tl be in touch by the end of the week
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Look at these phrases from tapescript 7.4 Who do the words in italics refer to?
the man who was doing the draw he became so suspicious he looked inside he always knew one of his friends AM 0 NI Check with the answer key 7.4
Look at these compound nouns
from tapescript 7.4 Compound,
nouns usually have the main stress
on the first part of the compound
sports club,
chewing gum
policemen
Look at the words below Match
the pairs to form compound nouns,
and underline the stressed syllable dish theatre post bite windscreen card exchange washer credit assistant mosquito forecast shop centre sign rate blood wiper show life weather goer love group shopping alarm car business
Check with the answer key
Practise saying the words, paying
attention to the stress
7.5
Formal conversations, for example
job interviews, often follow a conventional order, In interview 2 there are seven different stages
Using the tapescript to help you,
put the stages in the correct order
a making polite conversation:
talking about the weather Oo
b starting the interview questions ]
¢ thanking the interviewee for
coming I
d_ greetings and introductions TTI
¢ making polite conversation:
taking the interviewee’s coat [7] f offering a seat
g making polite conversation:
checking details of journey Oo
Check with the answer key
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All right, hang on, I've got another one Erm, there's this guy and his wife and she's invited some people over for dinner, so she says to her husband, erm, ‘Can you go and get some snails for dinner” and he says, ‘Yeah, OK, right? and he sets off Anyway, he buys the snails, and he's walking home again and he goes past a bar, so he decides, er, he decides to stop off, have a quick drink, and of course he meets a few mates, and the time passes, yeah and they have another drink, and another one Anyway, eventually, he staggers out of the bar four hours later, and by then it's night time, OK So he gets home, he gets to the front door, he trips over and he drops the snails all over the place Well, his wife hears the noise and comes out and she completely loses her temper with him, and she's shouting at him, ‘Where the hell have you been? You've been gone ages!” and, wait, wait and the guy turns to the snails and says, ‘Come on, you lot! We're nearly home!’ 8.2
Put those apples back, or I'll tell your father! Tidy your room, otherwise I won't let you watch TV!
8.3
Interview 1
I Well I'm standing outside a takeaway chicken restaurant I'm just waiting to see if there are any people who are going to drop their wrappers on the floor Unfortunately it probably won't take that long before somebody does exactly that Excuse me madam (Yes), I don’t know if you're aware of this but you 1 Excuse me, madam (Yes) I don’t know if
you're aware of this but you have just dropped this on the floor
Oh, erm, well I didn’t realize I must have been daydreaming or something 1 0h1see Em, is it do you often drop
your litter on the floor?
P No, no, erm, but you see this wrapper is actually paper, so it’s biodegradable - er, it's not the same as plastic, is it? I No, that’s very true, but still it does mean
that if everybody was to drop their litter on the floor, what, what it wouldn’t be Ít just wouldn't be very hygienic, would it?
P No Well, I wasn’t aware of it, actually As I said, I was daydreaming Well, erm I Did you see, did you see the bin there? P Yeah OK, well I'l pick it up and put it in
the bin AUl right? I Ok
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Interview 2
1 Well, I'm ina, er an inner city park,
erm, I'm just on the lookout for children who are showing, who are showing unsociable behaviour Perhaps they're out
of control, or their parents aren’t looking
after them and keeping an eye on them Erm, excuse me Er, (Yeah) are those children, those two children, are they yours?
W Yeah
M Yeah, yeah they are
I Right, erm are you aware that they're,
that they've been picking flowers from that, that, that flower bed over there? W Picking flowers from a flower bed Oh,
that’s against the law, is it?
I Well, the flowers are there for everybody's benefit
W That's right, so why can’t they pick them? I Well, I don’t think that, erm, I don’t think
the park keeper would be very happy if he knew that your kids were picking M_ But they/re just little children Theyre
picking a couple of flowers What's the danger in that?
I Well, the trouble is that if everybody were to pick flowers, there, there wouldn't be any flowers for everybody's else's enjoyment, would there?
M Yeah, I suppose I suppose you're right, but really I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill, don't you? W I think it’s absolutely ridiculous I So you think that that kind of behaviour
is, is all right? W Yeah
M A little bit is not (a) bad thing, yeah W There's loads of flowers all over this park I Right, and if everybody was to pick the
flowers, that, that wouldn't be a problem? W No, because more flowers would grow,
wouldn't they? I OK Well, thank you
8.4
I I'm ina busy London street There are cars parked on both sides of the road, and somebody has now double-parked, which means that the person that they've parked
in front of cannot actually get out Excuse
me, sir (Mmm), are you aware that you have just obstructed another vehicle there?
M_ I, I'm just here for a few moments Erm, I'm not stopping I'm just popping into the dry-cleaners to, to, to pick up some
some garments
I I understand that, but if this person
wants to get out, they‘re not actually
going to be able to get out
M Well, they won't have to wait very long, will they? I'l be about four minutes I There is quite a big queue in the dry-
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=
very urgently, so would you just mind your own business?
I It is actually against the law to double park Are you aware of this? M Well then, why don’t you leave that
up to the police? I Thank you
8.5
He then pulled a knife on Carter and threatened to stab him if he didn’t lay off Erm, Carter could see by the look in his eyes that he meant it, and was possibly on some kind of drug as well Erm, now, as Beck was shouting, his dog came rushing out in all the commotion and actually lunged at Carter and sank his teeth into his right thigh, and then luckily at that moment the police cars turned up (The police?) Yes, Eve Carter had actually telephoned them when she had heard all of the shouting and, erm, they arrested Beck right then and there, for threatening behaviour
8.3
When people are speaking
naturally, they often repeat phrases to give themselves time to think,
for example it wouldn't be, it just wouldn't be Find seven more examples of repetition in tapescript 8.3 Check with the answer key 8.4
The silent t at the end of a word is a common feature of natural spoken English It often happens when the next word begins with a consonant sound
T haven't seen them /hzvon si:n/
last Friday /la:s fraide/
Listen to these sentences spoken by the motorist in tapescript 8.4
Put a tick (VW) if he clearly pronounces the underlined f and a cross (X) if he doesn’t
1 I’m just here for a few moments
2 I'm just popping into the
drycleaner’s
3 They won't have to wait very
long
4 Ill be about four minutes
5 would you just mind your
own business?
6 Well then, why don’t you leave
that up to the police?
Check with the answer key Practise saying the sentences in this way
8.5
The story contains a lot of dramatic language, which makes it more
interesting Match the two halves of the phrases below
pulled of drug
threatened commotion the look his teeth into on some kind and then
rushing a knife on
in all the behaviour
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Where's the loo? Look, it’s Gladys Grunard! Her book’s completely unreadable T know
What a terrible haircut
To Agrippine, please I love your book It's my life exactly! Oh, really? It’s amazing, ‘cos there's nothing ordinary about me What name? Agrippine Is it selling well, your book? Is that two “PS?
It’s weird It’s just like me I was young once, believe it or not
I nearly fainted when I saw the blurb on the
back What percentage do you get on sales? Agri Apart from my boyfriend's name, everything is the same! ppine How much will you pay me if I tell you the sequel? 9.2
When I saw my results, I nearly fainted When I saw Mary with that boy, I nearly died! T couldn't believe my eyes when I opened the box I couldn't believe it when I heard the news 9.3
JS OK, Joe Rajko, tell everyone now, just what is your million-pound idea? JR yourable dot com
35 OK, Joe Rajko, your one million chance of a lifetime starts now!
JR Over 15% of the UK population are
disabled ~ that’s more than eight and a half million people My plan is to provide a unique service for them, their families, friends, and carers
(Welcome to yourable dot com.) Yourable dot com is a one-stop portal with all the information that disabled people can’t find anywhere else You'll find an estate agency and holiday home exchanges for adapted homes, kids’ areas, online training, and all the information you need on specialist equipment before you buy A big part of the site will be travel Wherever I go, I need to know if a hotel has light switches I can reach, or a washbasin I can get my wheelchair under, before I get there This site will classify and review hotels, so that I and millions of
other people can travel without the
stress of worrying what it will be like The web is the one place where I don’t
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have to feel disabled But there's nothing like yourable dot com on the net at the moment It'll make a huge difference to people's lives, and I want to make that happen
9.4
JS OK, Michelle Richie, tell everyone now,
just what is your million-pound idea? MR mykindofholiday dot com
JS OK, Michelle Richie, your one million
chance of a lifetime starts now!
MRI booked my last holiday on the net It
took me a week, and I went to 25
different websites That's when I thought
of mykindofholiday
(Welcome to mykindofhotiday dot com.) Mykindofholiday is a one-stop travel shop Tell us where you want to go, and we do
the rest A complete, tailor-made holiday
cover the Net If you know what you want, just enter the destination, dates, and
number of passengers, and we'll give you all the options Everything from hotels, to car hire, to days out, at a range of prices And we'll tell you whatever you need to
know — what exhibitions are on, and
where to stop for coffee It’s all part of the service But if you're not sure where
you want to go, just click on one of our holiday styles, like beach, or ski, and we can give you a selection of ideas at every
price, all with the same special service
And there’s an area for travellers to swap tips and great destinations This website will provide you with everything you need for your holiday, without you even having
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When we express strong emotions, the way we speak is as important
as the words we use Notice how
the speakers use intonation to
show surprise
Practise saying the sentences — try
to use intonation to sound
surprised 9.3
Look again at the section of Joe Raiko’s presentation that is in bold
a With a partner, read the script, and decide where to pause in the sentences, Circle any words you aren’t sure how to pronounce,
b Listen to the recording In the
tapescript, mark (like this //) where Joe Rajko pauses, and check
the pronunciation of the words
you didn’t know
¢ Listen again and read the script at
the same time
d Practise reading the script to your
partner, this time without listening 9.4 Listen and complete the phrases, 1 Tellus and we do the rest 2 If you know _
just enter the destination, dates and number of passengers 3 And we'll tell you what exhibitions are on 4 what exhibitions are on, and for coffee 5 But if you’re not sure eae just dlick on one of our holiday styles Check with the tapescript 9.3 and 9.4
Rewrite the sentences, starting
with the words given The
meaning must stay the same It will have a big effect on people's lives
It will make
N I and millions of other people
can travel and not have to worry
what it will be like
Land millions of other people
can travel without “ That gave me the idea for mykindofholiday That’s when 4 We'll give you the information you need
We'll tell you whatever
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M Do you want another coffee?
E No, no, I’m fine thanks Actually, erm, I
was gonna ask you guys, erm, if you'd
give me some advice on something (Yeah) Er, well basically, I've been asked
to do a presentation for college (Oh, good
for you!) next week, erm, to the whole
class, and I'm just a bit nervous about it really and I was wondering
M_ Oh, no you mustn’t, no, you shouldn't be
Well, if you want advice, actually the best
advice I’ve ever had was simply, ‘Be
natural’ (Right) If you're gonna make a
speech to people, don’t try and put things
on or pretend to be someone else, just be
yourself ‘Cos, you know, you're, you're
nice, and they'll like you (Yeah, absolutely.)
C And something that I do is I always make
sure that I'm standing behind a table or a
desk or a lectern (Yeah) and then no one
sees my knees knocking, so it doesn’t matter
something to hold on to
Absolutely
Tl remember that!
Actually, next week, did you say? (Yeah)
Well, you could practise it I mean, you could practise in front of us, if you want to I mean, you could do it to us
E Well, I've, I mean, I've got a week to
prepare it, so
M Or do it in front of a mirror, that works,
(Yeah, good idea) just practise in front of a mirror so you know what you look like
Maybe I'l, yeah, I might take you up on
that if, if you don’t mind, just before I’m
about to do it, maybe I could (Yeah) just run ït over with you guys to make sure
M_ Oh, oh, and when you're talking to
people, make sure you look them in the
eye Eye contact is really important, I
mean, (Right) don’t just look around at a group of people, treat them as
individuals, ‘cos then if somebody's
actually being a bit unfriendly towards you, if you concentrate on them, it sort
of draws them in
Makes them part of it, M Yeah, absolutely
And sort of, be kind of natural with your
arms, you know, don’t cross them over your chest or anything like that (Yeah) because that looks nervous and tied up,
just use them naturally the way you would, not waving them around, but just using them to emphasize what you're saying, what you do in real life
But you'll be fine (Yeah) Thanks, guys .m¬xz ¬ a 32 unit nine 9.6 Advertisement 1 I J 1 J I ] 1 h I J 1
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The imperative is often used to give advice, for example:
just be yourself
don’t try and put things on
Underline examples of the imperative in tapescript 9.5
Check with the answer key
9.5
We don’t normally pronounce /r/ when it is the last sound of a word However, if the next word
begins with a vowel, we tend to
pronounce the sound /r/ to link the
two words Look at these examples from tapescript 9.5
a table ora desk ora lectern
sounds like /'2:ra/ - to prepare it
sounds like /prr'peartt/
Practise saying these examples Pay attention to the linking sound /t/, as indicated
For ever and ever
They were much better overall She’s both a singer and a dancer
Their aim is to win
I'm getting fatter and fatter
T’'ve known him forages
He's got a brothet ạnd a sister
The car alarm went off
Do it on yout own!
They live further away now
9.6
a Here are some collocations from
tapescript 9.6 Cover the tapescript
and match the adjectives to the
nouns
clean, crisp, white: pastures
freshly squeezed bay
green orange juice
a gentle warming linen
asunny breeze Check with the tapescript
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10.1
Er, this is a joke about, erm, a husband and wife who realized that they were becoming a bit absent-minded, erm, and beginning to forget everything so, erm, well, they forgot things like, erm, turning off the cooker, and locking the front door, erm, things like that Anyway, they realized that this was probably going to be a bit dangerous, so they decided they ought to go and see the doctor Erm, now he said that the best thing to do wait, I haven't finished yet! He said the best
thing to do was to write everything thing
down, as, er, reminders, They thought this was a great idea, so they wrote it down immediately to remind themselves Anyway, they got home and the wife said, ‘Oh, oh, John, John, could you go to the kitchen and bring me some ice cream?’ And, erm, he said, “Yes, certainly! She said, ‘Oh! write it down, so you won't forget’ and he said, ‘Don't be silly! I'm not going to forget ice cream!’ So off he went into the kitchen, and he was there for about fifteen minutes, and the wife heard clattering of pans and, and cooking going on, and fifteen minutes later, the husband came back with a big tray of breakfast things, like fried eggs, and cornflakes and, erm, stuff like that And the wife looked at the tray and she said, “John, you've forgotten something, haven’t you?" And he said, ‘No, I don’t think so! She said, ‘You've forgotten the toast!’
10.2
I can't tell the difference between a silk scarf and an acrylic one
I can’t tell one type of beer from another Can you tell what someone’s nationality is, just by looking at them?
Can you tell the difference between one type of mineral water and another?
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10.3
Interview 1
P OK, well I think we've heard enough from the panel on this issue of testing cosmetics on live animals I'd like to throw it open to the audience Er, sir, yes, er, right at the back there in the green shirt, er, what do you think?
M Well, erm, yeah, I live near a laboratory in, er, Cambridgeshire, and erm, I think it’s an absolute disgrace
There's, erm, a cosmetic range that’s doing like, things like foot balm in lots of different smells or whatever, and every time they do a different smell, they do this whole range of testing, and there's, er, there’s dogs and rats and goodness knows whatever, having to, er, having to suffer,
So I take it you're against then, these experiments, hut could I ask you if you think, er, medical experiments on live animals would be justifiable?
M Well, erm, yeah, well, that's a different, sort of, that’s a different subject really, erm
P- OK, thank you! Interview 2
P- Well, some strong opinions there from our panel Women having babies in their fifties and sixties er, do the audience think it's good idea? Yes, near the front, the lady there, yes, yes, madam Wr, I think it’s a fantastic idea for women
to be able to have babies into their fifties and sixties
I think we have this medical technology; why don't we use it? It’s ridiculous, if we can do this, it makes people be parents who might otherwise not be able to, and we're all living far longer nowadays, so why not have babies in our fifties and sixties if we're all going to live to be a hundred anyway?
P But yes, certainly having the baby, but what do you feel about actually looking after the baby, and as it grows into you know, being a teenager, do you think then that the parents will have enough energy to cope?
W Yes, I think so, because you know, we're, we're all healthier than we used to be, we're living for longer, so you know, why not? I think, I think it's a great idea P OK, thank you, do we have anyone who
disagrees on that subject?
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Cover the tapescript Listen and
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10.4
P Well, as we might have expected, that seems to have divided the panel, so I'd
like to get some responses from our
audience on this issue of raising the price
of petrol in order to cut the number of cars on the roads Er, what do we think
about yes! The man in the glasses,
(Me?) blue shirt Yes, yes, yes, you sir
M Erm, hello, 1, I'm a doctor, erm, in a rural
practice, erm, my surgery is in the countryside Most of my patients, erm, live all over the place ï have to use my
car to get to see them All of us in the surgery need our cars to get to see them
Erm, this whole argument of raising the,
ef, price of petrol to keep cars off the
road is so narrow-minded, it is urbanized,
it is to do with towns and cities, it has
nothing to do with the people like myself
who need our cars to get around to see
people in urgent cases It is all to do with towns and cities, it has nothing to do
with the countryside at all
P Yes, but, I, I take your point sir, but what about the more general idea that in fact
working in the health service as you do,
we could invest more money in the health service if we in fact increased the tax on
petrol What do you think about that? M_ No, no, I'm sorry, how many times, how
many times have we seen this argument
going round and round? We need money
from petrol revenue to go into schools and into hospitals Do we see our
hospitals well funded? Do we see our
schools well funded? No, but we do have expensive petrol P Thank you, we'll take another audience member 10.5 E I think that pets are a great idea for kids M Do you?
E Yeah, definitely, I mean, you know, you can learn a lot from an animal I know when I was younger, I had a dog, and it taught me a lot about responsibility and and having to take it for walks all the time
E Yeah
Yeah, feeding it, looking after it, I think it teaches children a lot
Definitely
M_ But are you sure it taught you, or, or did it teach your parents? Because my experience is that most children actually don't learn anything from having a pet
They get a pet, get excited, and then they
forget about it, and move on C Well, I suppose it depends how old the
child is, when it gets its first pet E And what pet it is as well
And what pet it is, absolutely
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So a goldfish is OK because if you can remember to feed it once a day, that's something I suppose
Yeah, But also if it's some, some, if it’s a puppy, then the child sort of wants to interact with it (Yeah) so it, it forms a relationship with it, which may make it more likely for the child to look after that puppy well
I suppose it's possible that actually, that you can grow up with a pet, can’t you, so
that you (Absolutely), so you can mature with it I mean if you get a pet when it's young and the child’s young, then they actually sort of grow up
and you build a bond with it, almost
M Yeah, but I think you have to make sure
that they are responsible for an, for an animal
Yes, I agree with that
Because the temptation is just to, is to sort of take over and (Yeah) and I think to actually do all the work for them
(Yeah)
But usually, I mean, I certainly found it great fun looking after my pet when I was a child, and most kids I know enjoy the sort of, behaving like an adult in a way, of having something to look after and take care of, and feed and be responsible for
You weren't one of those girls who had a pony, were you?
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Read this dictionary extract be/have to do with sb/sth to be about or connected with sb/sth:
‘What do you want to see me
about?’ ‘Its to do with that letter
you sent me have (got)
something, nothing, a lot, etc
to do with sb/sth used to talk about how much sb/sth is connected
with sb/sth: Her job has something
to do with computers 0 ‘How much
do you earn?’ ‘What's it got to do
with you?’ © Hard work has a lot to
do with ( an important reason
for) her success, 0 We don't have very much to do with our
neighbours (we do not speak to them very often) 0 1d have nothing to do with him, if I were you entry from Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (sixth cdition)
2 Look at tapescript 10.4 Underline
four examples of the idiom from the dictionary extract above Check with the answer key
& Rewrite these sentences using the idiom above 1 His exam result was not related to his studies Successful cookery is largely based on practice
He’s not from my department, so Inever see or speak to him 4 I think the programme is partly about unemployment vu w Check with the answer key 10.4
Find words or phrases in the
tapescript which mean:
1 a problem or subject people
discuss
increasing
to reduce
connected with the countryside
place where a doctor ora dentist
gives treatment unwilling to accept or
understand new or different
ideas or customs
7 to travel to different places 8 very important and needing to
be dealt with immediately
9 actually
10 to spend money on something in
order to make it better VR Ww a 10.4
a It can be difficult to know if a
vowel sound is short or long when
a word has only one syllable Look
at these examples Can you see
what the general rule is?
vowel short sound long sound
A feel mat Jey mate
E fel pet fix Pete
I fv pin Jay! pine
ö /o/ not /⁄a0/ not
U /a/ hug ful buge The general rule is:
If the vowel is followed by one or two consonants, then the vowel
sound is short If the vowel is followed by a consonant and the
letter ¢, then the vowel sound is
long
b Here are some more examples, from tapescript 10.4,
vowel short sound long sound
A Je/ man, fact fei take
E /e! yes, well /äư (Pete)
1 {vu this fa like
Ø /p/ from foul whole
U fal cat fay cute
¢ Look at the words in the box Decide if each word contains a short vowel sound or a long vowel sound
mile cross kit
rode kite hole
cat lump nose
shut mane mill
press cute best
June luck shame
left tone bite
pack rod flat
late fine thrill
mine
Check with the answer key Practise saying the words
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Mum, I’ve tidied my room
Oh, brill
Oh, mum, please people stopped saying “prill’ a hundred thousand years ago
Yeah, I know You say ‘cool’, What? You don't say ‘cool’ any more?
You can say whatever you want - ‘fab’, even! It all depends on the context
What about ‘a cool kick up the backside’? Is
that the right context? Oh, come on, don't get upset
No, I just want to understand So, you say ‘a cool concert’, ‘a cool plan’?
OK, ‘a cool school’? What?
Look, mum - just stick to ‘brill’, OK?
11.2
I'm going away tomorrow and I've got a million things to do!
She's eating snake I wouldn't do that in a million years!
Shut that door! I've told you a hundred times!
Ooh, this table - it weighs a ton! T haven't eaten all day I could eat a horse!
T'm not staying there again It cost a
fortune!
11.3
E_ Right, well, um, I've got a story for you which is kind of the same sort of situation (Yeah) as you were talking about earlier Basically, erm, my friend, Lucy, erm, who, we went to school together, erm, when she was eighteen, erm, she left a party one night, erm, and, erm, she'd missed the last bus home (0h, no) and she had no money on her for a taxi, no trains, nothing (Oh dear!), so she decided to walk, even though it was a really, really long way home Erm, anyway, she was walking along, and after about ten minutes, erm, this car pulled up There was @ middle-aged couple sat in the front, er, pretty respectable-looking, she said, well dressed, (Yeah) and so she thought, ‘Fine, this will be safe, this looks fine’ and she got in the back Anyway, erm, they finally arrived at her village, and she pointed out her house, and she was about to get out, and basically they just drove on (Ah!) in complete silence,
didn’t say anything, just carried on going, straight past her house (0h, no!) So obviously she starts getting nervous now and really panicking, (Yeah) thinking, ‘What is going on?”
Um, anyway, about ten kilometres Later,
they turned the car round, drove back, drove her back to her house, and er, parked the car and told her to get out So she got out, obviously she was completely relieved, and, erm, they said to her, ‘Be
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warned! You could have been attacked!” Huh! (That's awful!) So they were teaching her a lesson really, which I find a bit strange, but (Yeah) she never did that again
Oh, if that'd been me, I would have slapped their face for doing that to me, (I know what you mean.) when I got out It was really awful, though I have to say I
wouldn't have got into the car in the first
it, it was a really crazy thing ing to do) to do, yeah I think (Yeah, me too) I'd have made a phone call Yeah
11.4
M_ 0h, Gareth, you won't believe it I was in the pizza restaurant having a meal the other day, (Uhuh) and er, I looked across the restaurant and there was this girl called Laura, erm, she's erm, she's Dino's girlfriend (Mmm) I mean, Dino's, Ive known him for years, he's a, he's a great mate, and she was sitting atone, so T thought, ‘Well, Dino will be in in a minute, (Mmm) and T'll go and say hello! And then this other fellow came in and sat down next to Laura, Dino's girlfriend, (Yeah) and he kissed her (Ah) I mean, a proper kiss, they were obviously going together (Yeah, yeah) It was, oh, it was terrible, I was really shocked, you know Erm, then I was looking across, trying not to be seen, and she caught my eye, and I thought, ‘Oh, no, she’s seen me/ and she got embarrassed and got up and left (Yeah) So, erm, it was obvious what was going on I thought, ‘What do I do?’ T
mean, I was going to see Dino the next
day, (Mmm) so I thought, ‘Do I tell him or not? I couldn't sleep, that night, I really, I couldn't sleep, I was tossing, turning erm, well, I saw him the next day but I didn’t tell him, I couldn't No
No
L understand that If that'd been me, I'd have, I'd have done that I couldn't have, couldn't have said anything
M_ No, it's embarrassing, isn't it? G Yeah, yeah, it's not your business M No, no, absolutely
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11.2
a Listen and notice how the speaker
stresses certain words in order to
exaggerate the meaning
I've got a million things to do!
I wouldn't do that in a million years! T've told you a hundred times! it weighs a ton! T could cat a horse! Tt cost a fortune! b Practise saying the phrases 11.3 Cover the tapescript Complete Carolyn’s sentences
1 Oh, if that (be)
me, I (slap) their face 2 Ihave to say I (not get into) the car in the first place 31 (make) a phone call Check your answers with the tapescript 11.4 2 Look at these words from tapescript 11.4
restaurant proper terrible
across couldnt next
sleep embarrassing
The underlined sounds are known
as consonant clusters — two or
more consonant sounds together These are very common in English
Consonant clusters can occur at the
beginning or end of a word, or in
the middle
b Underline the consonant clusters
in the sentences below
You should obviously think the
problems through
I was surprised she wasn’t a
successful candidate
The loft has made an incredible improvement to their home T'll pick you up at three; we can
watch a film together
This graph clearly shows production
is increasing
Tris critical that we restrict our
expansion plans
Check with the answer key and practise saying the sentences