Skills for FCE listening speaking SB1 part 1

u j ) cc LL O cc LL (I) c a Listen! and Speakin Malcolm Mann Steve TayloreKnowles 0404 TVILL \\ Listening and Speaking Malcolm Mann Steve Taylore-Knowles Pa MAC M I LLAN Macmillan Education Between Towns Road, Oxford OX4 3PP A division of Macmillan Publishers Limited Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 405 01749 X Text and design e Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003 First published 2003 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers Designed by Thomas Nicolaou at Polyplano, based on a design by Marc Theriautt Additional design by Anne Sherlock Illustrated by Dimitris Kamenos Cover design by Marc Theriault at Polyplano, Thessaloniki, Greece Cover photo © PhotoDisc Series editor: Emma Parker Malcolm Mann would like to thank everyone at Macmillan for all their support and encouragement during the writing of this series Steve Taylore-Knowles would like to thank Jeanne, Sue, Emma, Yanni and George for making it happen and keeping it fun, Malc for putting up with putting him up, Jo for just putting up with him, and all his FC students whose faces and voices were constantly in his mind as he wrote The publishers would like to thank Ann Gibson, ELT Consultant Thanks also to Jain Cook The authors and publishers would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce their photographs: Corbis pp10, 14,15, 16(tm), 22(tr), 28, 34, 35, 36(tl, tr), 38, 39, 40, 46, 50, 52, 58, 60, 62, 63, 70(tml, tmr, trr), 76, 82, 83 86, 87, 88,103; Photodisc p36 (br); Superstock ppl6 (tr), 22(tml, tmr), 70(tI) Commissioned Photography by Josephina Svania pp4, 64, 94 Printed and bound in Thailand 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 10 32 Contents Topic Skills Exam practice focus Films Occupations Education Sport People Travel 10 Listening: gist Listening Parts & Speaking: giving personal Speaking Parts & information Grammar focus implied subjects formal/informal 10 Listening: identifying roles, relationships and location Listening Parts & question tag intonation Speaking: expressing Speaking Parts & one/any Listening Parts & infinitives of purpose Speaking Parts & inversions with 'so' quite prepositions with attitude and opinion Listening: understanding attitude and purpose Speaking: comparing and contrasting 34 Food and Drink Listening: anticipating and predicting Listening Parts & The Media Speaking: agreeing and disagreeing Speaking Parts & The Weather Listening: note taking and blank-filling Listening Parts & elision in connected speech The Environment Speaking: speculating Speaking Parts & deduction /obligation with 'must' Listening: specific information Listening Parts & - 11 Technology 12 Health and Fitness Speaking: discourse 'agree' Speaking Parts & management IN, verb/noun distinction where/which + preposition 13 Transport Listening: deducing meaning Listening Parts & 14 Fashion Speaking: pronunciation Speaking Parts & 15 Crime Listening: understanding intonation and stress Listening Parts & complete/ incomplete action transferred negative verb/noun stress 16 Shopping Speaking: suggesting and Speaking Parts & what if/suppose HEW 58 82 recommending Exam know-how 100 Useful phrases 102 Speaking exam practice papers 103 Listening skills development 109 Uni t Films WA R M - U P Look at the pictures In pairs ask and answer the following questions: n How often you go to the cinema? nHave you ever been to an outdoor cinema? nHow outdoor cinemas differ from indoor cinemas? nHow could cinemas be improved to attract more people? DEVELOP YOUR LISTENING A SKILLS What's it like? Look at the following ways to see films In pairs talk about what it's like to see a film in this way Try to mention at least one good point and one bad point Example: 'well, I think watch in g a -Film oh TV is 3yeai- becau se you vt 'i- have to i-o the cinema you can watch ii- at home But it's really awoloyivk wh en th ere owe 104 - s o f ad ver ts in the middle of the on TV on video on DVD at a local cinemaat an oiA1-6koor cinema B Listen and match You are going to listen to five people talking about films Match each speaker with the way they prefer to see a film You will only use five of the ways Speaker A TV B video Speaker Speaker C DVD D outdoor cinema Speaker Speaker 13 E local (indoor) cinema F multi-screen cinema What did they say? Can you remember the reasons the speakers gave for their preferences? In pairs, make notes on the lines provided Speaker Speaker Speaker Speaker Speaker _ D Choose the best description Now listen again For each speaker, circle the sentence which best describes what they are saying Speaker a The price must be cheap b The place must be right c The film must be good Speaker a Technology makes things quicker b Technology gives you more choice c Technology is becoming cheaper Speaker a We have to consider the time it takes Speaker a The film must be good b Comfort is very important c I like the atmosphere b We have to consider how much choice we have c We have to consider the financial aspect Speaker a I don't mind what I watch b I don't mind where I watch it c I don't mind how I watch it L i s t e n i n g and S p e a k i n g S k i l l s / U n i t U n i t DEVELOP YOUR LISTENING SKILLS 13 Were you right? Look again at the reasons you noted in C Do you still agree with them? Make changes and additions to your notes where appropriate 13 Discuss As a class, discuss the reasons the five speakers gave for their preferences Do you all agree? Wri te som e key wor ds You're going to listen to the same five people They will each be talking about a film they have just seen Before you listen, write down some key words you might expect to hear if someone is talking about the types of film below western 1i 11 comedy 11 cowboy !1 11 I 1 i romance i ! thriller i i !I I I ! blood 11 Discuss i Discuss i1 I your key class Did they think of any1words ! words with the rest of the that you didn't? 1 cartoon 1 1i kids !! ken, crime film i ii !1 1 i i I r • — • LB — • • • — — • — ! i • — • — • — • — • — • I M M • • ■ • i ■ • i ■ • Wordperfect L i s t e n a n d c i r c l e —S-0 Now listen to the descriptions As you listen, c i rc l e t h e t y p e o f fi l m e a c h s p e a ke r i s describing Speaker a comedy b s c i e n c e fi c t i o n Read these sentences and then use the words in bold to complete the sentences below n It's not going to be a studio production The whole movie is going to be filmed on location in the Alps n When people say they are going to 'the pictures', they mean they are going to the cinema n It's a typical western It's set in the Wild West in the late 1800s and it's about a group of cowboys who are attacked by some Indians n Terry Fisher and Barbara Walker are both film critics: they write film reviews for national newspapers n At the cinema, the short break in the middle of Speaker a c ar t o o n b we stern Speaker a c r i m e fi l m b romance Speaker the film is sometimes called the intermission a a c t i o n fi l m b comedy n A film buff is a person who likes films a lot, and knows a lot about them n I'd love to be a stunt man: it must be great fun Speaker a h o r r o r fi l m b thriller E l Listen and circle No w li st en a ga i n T hi s ti me , d ec id e i f the stat ements are tr ue or false Ci rcle T fo r Tr ue or F for False Spea ker t ho ught the scri pt wa s T/F weak doing all the dangerous stunts in a movie n Film credits at the end of a fi lm tell us the names of the actors and the other people who were involved in the production of the fi lm n If an actor has a bit part in a film, they only have a very small speaking role n If you are an extra in a movie, you can be seen in the background, but you don't have any lines to say I can't remember her name! We'll have to look at the _ at the end S p ea ker w a s i mpre s s ed wi t h t he T/F effects Speaker really enjoyed the fi lm T/F dreadful movie, but I really enjoyed it Making the movie was actually extremely hard, T/F Do you fancy going to S p ea ker h a d ex p ec t ed i t t o be better S p e a ke r t h o u g h t t h e e n d i n g w a s T/F predictable M o s t o f t h e said it was a as we shot the whole thing in the desert tonight? I think that Jim Carrey comedy is still on Shall we get some popcorn during the Have you seen that _ where Clint Eastwood plays a cowboy who hardly ever speaks? Did you the fi ght scenes yourself, or did a _ stand in for you? I'd love to be an just to see what it's like on a film set Tom's a real • he'll know who L i s t e n i n g a n d S p e a k i n g S k i l l s / U n i t directed Night of the Living Dead 10 I've been off ered a in a movie! I'm only in one scene, but it's a start! 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