Unit 8 d listening speaking

Listen to the conversation and check your ideas a.. Which kind of food doesn’t she mention.. What was the weather like at the festival on Saturday morning3. What was the weather like on

Unit 8- Entertainment

Listening and speaking

WOMAD

Checking your previous lesson

1 Describe your last week

II: Listening

a What do you think WOMAD stands for?

World of M… , A……, and D………

1 Look at the pictures

b 8.4 Listen to the conversation and check your

ideas

a What do you think WOMAD stands for?

World of Music, Arts, and Dance (LÔ héi ©m nh¹c)

2 Listen again and choose the correct answers

II: Listening

1 Where was the festival?

2 Where was Karen’s favourite band from?

3 Which kind of food doesn’t she mention?

4 How many people were there?

5 What was the weather like at the festival on Saturday morning?

6 What was the weather like on Sunday?

7 Where were they?

8 How long were they there?

Answers

• Where was the festival? Reading

2 Where was Karen’s favourite band from? Uganda

3 Which kind of food doesn’t she mention? Turkish

4 How many people were there? Thousands

5 What was the weather like at the festival on Saturday morning? Cloudy but warm

6 What was the weather like on Sunday? Cold and wet

7 Where were they? In a caravan

8 How long were they there? Friday to Sunday.

III: speaking

3 Describe Karen and Josh’s weekend.

Example:

Karen and Josh were at a music festival in Reading …

Conversation pieces: Responding

a Match the two parts of these expressions from the conversation.

Oh, that’s really?

No, I bet a pity.

b Check your ideas in tapescript 8.4

III: speaking

4 Talk about your weekend with a partner.

a 8.4 Listen to the conversation again What questions

does Ben ask?

Answers:

- Were you and Josh away at the weekend?

- What’s that?

- Where was that?

- Was it good?

- Were there many people there?

- What was the weather like?

- Were you there all weekend?

b Choose one of the events below One of you was at the

event Use the questions in “a” and make the conversation

* A wedding * a party * a motor show

* A sport event * a rock concert

IV: vocabulary file: Weather

a Use a dictionary Match the words and the symbols

- What’s the weather like?

- It’s dry.

b Describe the weather in

your country.

 Today

 Yesterday

 Last week

 In May

 In December.

e.g Today is…(day, date

month) The weather is

VII: Homework

1 Learn by heart new words

2 Do exercises 7, 8, 9 - unit 8 – Workbook