- •Карневская е.Б. Абламейко в.С. Дмитриева л.Ф. Каленик т.К. Митева т.П. Павлович н.А. Панова и.И. Таболич е.В.
- •Introduction
- •Section 1
- •2.4. Listen to the part of the recording describing the social programme and sort the pieces of information given below into two columns.
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •1.2. Make sure you know these words and word combinations.
- •1. Pre-Listening Exercises
- •1.1 Study the meaning of the words and word combinations below.
- •1.2. Read this advertisement carefully. The information will help you understand the recording better.
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •Candidate c
- •3.3. Insert fairly, rather, too in the sentences from the recording.
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.2. Listen to the recording again. State the overall topic of the text using the prompts given below.
- •2.3. Listen to the text again so as to be able to outline its contents. Expand each of the items choosing the appropriate arguments from the prompts given below.
- •2.4. Listen to the text another time paying attention to the details of the contents and the language. Give answers to the following questions.
- •3. Language Focus
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •3.3. Check your understanding of the vocabulary of the recording by matching the English and Russian word combinations in the left and right columns.
- •2.3. Write a detailed passage about one of the pieces of news.
- •3. Language Focus and Auditory Memory Check
- •Section 2
- •1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Listen to the text as a whole. Identify the speech variety and the speech situation choosing the suitable prompt below:
- •2.2. State the general topic of the dialogues:
- •2.3. Now listen to each of the six parts of the recording separately and answer the questions that follow.
- •2.4. Listen to each part of the recording again and note down each caller’s symptoms and the doctor’s suggested remedies.
- •3. Language Focus
- •3.1. While listening to the tape again focus your attention on the way the doctor gives advice to each caller. Note down the words and expressions:
- •3.2. Give the English equivalents for the sentences below from the recording you’ve listened to.
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •2. A day in my life
- •1. Listening Exercises
- •1.2. Say if the following statements are True or False.
- •1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- •3. Language Focus
- •3.1. Listen to the tape again. Pick out and note down the words which mean:
- •3.2. Give the English equivalents for the following sentences.
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.7. Listen to the speakers once more and note down the arguments for and against vivisection. Make use of the table below.
- •3. Language Focus
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •1. Pre-Listening Exercises
- •1.2. Discuss the following situation
- •2.3. Listen to the text again and focus on the right action you have to take when an accident happens. Complete the following sentences.
- •3. Language Focus
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •1.2. Answer the following questions:
- •1.3. Read the menu given below and say if it is a pub or a wine bar.
- •Vegetarian Crepes £3.75
- •1.4. Go through the list of words and clear up any difficulties.
- •1.5. Read some of the sentences from the interview and see if you understand them.
- •3.2. Go through the list of word combinations and phrases below and find their equivalents in the recording while listening to it again.
- •2.3. Listen to the recording again and put the questions asked in the interviews in the order they appear on the tape.
- •2.4. Listen to the interviews again and focus on the answers given to the questions from ex. 2.3. Write down the necessary information in brief.
- •3. Language Focus and Auditory Memory Check
- •3.1. In each pair of sentences given below choose the one from the recording.
- •3.2. Translation
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •2.3. Listen to the recording again and note down a) the range of sports; b) the sports facilities they had at Lake Placid at that time.
- •3.3. Listen and note down the English equivalents for the following Russian expressions and sentences.
- •3. Language Focus
- •1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •4. Discussion
- •Consolidation 3
- •1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •Section 4
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1.While listening focus on the essential characteristics of the towns: their having a cathedral, a market; their origin and inhabitants.
- •2.2. Check your understanding by choosing the right alternative.
- •2.3. Listen to each text separately and note down the information needed to answer the questions.
- •3. Language Focus
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Now you will hear part of a lecture about London. State the subject matter of the text by choosing the suitable prompt.
- •2.3. Listen to the text extract by extract according to the sub-topics of the outline and concentrate on the details of the contents. Write down:
- •3. Language Focus
- •3.1. As you listen to the lecture now concentrate on the details of the vocabulary. Pick out and note down:
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •2. Comprehension Exercises
- •1.2. Learn the following words:
- •4. Language Focus
- •4.1. Listen to the recording again and give the English equivalents from the tape for the following Russian expressions.
- •4.2. Fill in the prepositions where necessary.
- •5. Follow-Up Activities
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •3. Intensive Comprehension Exercises
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •Section 6
- •1. Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •1.2. Copy the grid below.
- •3.2. Give the English equivalents for the following Russian word combinations.
- •3. Language Focus
- •3.2. Give the synonyms from the recording for the following word combinations. Listen to the recording again if necessary.
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •3. Language Focus and Auditory Memory Check
- •3.1. Listen again and pay attention to the context in which these expressions are used. Get ready to reproduce it after listening.
- •3.2. Look through the chart below and state who these words belong to by ticking the right box.
- •3.3. Listen again and note down the cases of incorrect pronunciation and incorrect grammar.
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •1. Pre-Listening Exercises
- •1.2. Read the information below.
- •1.3. Read the plot summary of the play. Act 1
- •1.4. Use the sentences from the ex. 1.3. To help you match a word in a with a definition in b.
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •4. Follow-Up Activity
- •Consolidation 6
- •1. General Comprehension
- •2. Intensive Comprehension
- •3. Writing Based on Listening Recognition. Recognition Accuracy Check
- •Section 7
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Listen to the fairy tale and identify the following statements as True or False. Correct the false ones.
- •2.2. Arrange the suggested subtopics according to their order in the text.
- •2.3. Listen to the fairy tale once again and in each pair of statements tick the True one.
- •2.4. Read the sentences below and identify the speaker. Reproduce the situations which these statements belong to.
- •3. Enriching your Vocabulary
- •3.1. Recognising new vocabulary in the speech flow.
- •3.2. Making use of new vocabulary
- •4. Follow-Up Activities
- •2. Listening Exercises
- •2.1. Listen to the tape to identify whether the fairy tale was
- •2.2. Answer the following alternative questions:
- •2.3. Say if the following statements are True or False.
- •2.4. Listen to the tape and say whose these words are? Choose the answers from the list below.
- •3. Language Focus
- •3.1. Fill in the gaps with a) the prepositions and b) the intensifiers used in the text. Then listen to the recording again and check your answers.
- •3.2. Match the verbs in the left-hand columns with the postpositions in the right hand columns to make phrasal verbs which were used in the recording.
- •2. Listen to Alice’s song and focus on some language features.
- •2. Listen to the same extract again and focus on some text features. Pick out and put down word combinations and phrases:
- •1. Listen to a new passage of the text and trace down the events that happened to Alice here. Expand the suggested outline by making use of the key words and phrases in the brackets.
- •2. Listen to the talk between Alice and the Caterpillar and the song they perform together. Make sue you’ve grasped the contents of the conversation by completing the statements which follow:
- •3. Listen to the song “You are Old, Father William” again and focus on some language features.
- •You are Old, Father William by Robert Southey (1774-1843)
- •Literature
- •Contents
- •Карневская Елена Борисовна
2. Listening Exercises
2.1. Listen to Mr Higgings’ monologue and choose the right statement below.
a) Mr Higgings feels like getting married.
b) Mr Higgings is a confirmed bachelor.
c) Mr Higgings is at a loss whether to marry or not.
2.2. Listen to the monologue again paying attention to what Mr Higgings says about a woman. Note down the continuation for the statements beginning with the words “Let a woman in your life...” which he repeats many times.
2.3. Listen to the recording once more and note down the words and expressions which he uses to characterize himself.
2.4. Listen paying attention to what he dislikes in women. Note down the necessary information.
3. Language Focus and Auditory Memory Check
Choose the sentences which were used in the recording.
1. a) I’m an ordinary man who desires nothing more than ...
b) I’m an ordinary man who wishes nothing more than ...
2. a) who wants to ... drink whatever is nice for him.
b) who wants to ... drink whatever is best for him.
3. a) who wants to live his life full of strife ...
b) who wants to live his life free of strife ...
4. a) She only wants to chat of love.
b) She only wants to talk of love.
a) She will beg you for advice ...
b) She will ask you for advise ...
TEXT 2. Pygmalion
1. Pre-Listening Exercises
1.1. You will now hear a scene from Pygmalion by B.Shaw. Read the information below.
Higgings has been giving Liza lessons in how to speak ‘properly’. He is pleased with her progress and feels the time has come to ‘try her out in public’, although she has only been groomed to talk about the weather and health! He takes her, beautifully dressed, to a tea party at his mother’s house.
He has been able to help her a lot with her pronunciation, but unfortunately, she has little idea about what constitutes a polite conversation!
1.2. Go through the following words and clear up any difficulties.
depression ] - понижение давления
bowl [] - углубление ложки
call - нужда, необходимость
small talk - светский разговор, новое выражение в светском разговоре
ladle [] - лить
pinch - украсть
snigger at sb/sth [] - хихикать, подсмеиваться
do smb. in (coll.) - прикончить
shallow - незначительный
1.3. Look through the list characters of the extract you are going to hear.
Characters:
Mrs Higgings - Professor Higgins’s mother, a kind and wise lady
Mrs Eynsford-Hill - Mrs Higgings’s high-society friend
Freddy Eynsford-Hill - her son, in his early twenties
Clara Eynsford-Hill - sister to Freddy
Professor Higgings
Colonel Pickering
Eliza Doolittle
2. Listening Exercises
2.1. Listen and identify the statements below as True or False.
Liza was a success at the tea party.
Liza talked only about the weather at the party.
Liza’s language was not always clear for the others.
2.2. Listen for the details and note the answers for the following questions.
Who did Liza greet first?
What was wrong with Liza’s speech about the weather?
What relative did Liza tell the story about?
What did happen to her relative?
What impression did the story produce on Mrs Eynsford-Hill?
What expression couldn’t Mrs Eynsford-Hill understand? Why?
3. Language Focus
Give the English equivalents from the recording for the following Russian word combinations.
сказать (сделать) что-либо правильно
похолодать
эпидемия гриппа
вся семья болеет гриппом
умереть от …
иметь необходимость
TEXT 3. “I could have danced all night” (song)
Now you are going to hear the song “I could have danced all night” from the musical My Fair Lady.
1. Listen and explain why Liza can’t go to sleep.
2. Note down the text of the song.
Lesson B. OUT-OF-CLASS LISTENING
Text Title: The Importance of Being Earnest by O.Wilde
Cassette: From Making Headway Literature. Advanced,
by B.Bowler, S.Parminter
1. Pre-Listening Exercises
1.1. Read the following sentences, concentrating on the underlined words.
She is an earnest, intellectual-looking woman, and a good student.
We experienced one misfortune after another: my bag got lost on the flight, Caroline’s passport was stolen soon after we arrived, and we both got food poisoning.
Most of the local community centre’s money comes from gifts from charitable men and women in the neighbourhood.
He is an old gentleman of kindly disposition.
My parents lived in India when I was young so I was looked after in England by my guardian.
The two sisters, who hadn’t seen each other for many years, embraced warmly when they met again.
The elaborate investigations gave good results.
Many of the more remote mountain villages are completely cut off by snow in the winter.
There’s nothing more unpleasant for me than the revolting taste of sour milk.
Using hot irons, the cowboys branded the cows one by one, burning a big letter ‘s’ on each ones back.
The old house had capacious fitted cupboards, so we didn’t have to buy any wardrobes.
In a moment of mental abstraction she placed the baby in the hand-bag.
My grandmother lent me an old-fashioned perambulator (bassinette) when my daughter was born. We used to take her to the park in it.
My late grandmother used to read a lot.