Unit 7 listening lop 10 CB

Ask and answer the following questions  How often do you listen to the radio?. Heavy rain FloodMount Whitney Cause Ninety-year-Woman Climb... Task 2: Listen to the radio news stories ag

Quiz game: What is it?

 It was invented by Guglielmo Marconi

 When you turn the dial, you can hear a foreign

language from a far country

 It provides information and entertainment orally and

you receive information aurally

It is a radio

Ask and answer the following

questions

 How often do you listen to the radio?

 How many hours per week do you listen to it?

 What programme do you like listening to and why?

Heavy rain Flood

Mount Whitney

Cause

Ninety-year-Woman

Climb

Task 1: Listen to the two radio news stories and tick the words you hear in the right column under New story 1 and New story 2

New story 1 New story 2

Strong

Young

Cloudy

Highest

wonderful

x

x x

x x

Task 2: Listen to the radio news stories again and

fill in the missing words

 Heavy rain causes floods all over the country

Heavy rain during the night (1) ……… … all over the country today Many people (2)

……… ………because rivers (3)

………Some roads in the north-west are

under (4) ………of water The rain (5)

……… at the moment, but it’s still (6)………… and there’s a (7)……… Because of the bad weather, people can’t go out to work

has caused floods

have left their homes

have risen

two meters has stopped

cloudy strong wind

90-year-old American woman climbs Mount

Whitney

A ninety-year-old woman has climbed Mount Whitney

in California for the (1)……… time At (2)

………… metres, Mount Whitney is the highest

mountain in (3) ……… The woman says the view from the top is (4) ………… , so she tries to climb it often She also says that the mountain has kept her (5) ……… ………In spite of her old age, the woman tries to climb the mountain very

often

twenty-third 4,418

California

wonderful young and healthy

Task 3: Listen again, and answer the following questions

 1 What has happened during the night?

 2 Why have people left their homes?

 3 How many times has the old woman climbed Mount Whitney?

 4 Why does she climb it so often?

Heavy rain has caused floods all over the country

Because rivers have risen She has climbed Mount Whitney twenty three times

Because it has kept her young and healthy

Listen to the radio news stories again and

1.Heavy rain during the night has caused floods all

over the country today

2 Some roads in the north-west are under

metres of water

3 The rain at the moment

4 People can’t go out to work

5 A ninety - year-old woman has climbed

Mount Whitney in California twenty three times

6 Climbing mountain has kept her strong and healthy

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F

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is raining

has stopped

five

 Do exercises in the workbook page 75

 Prepare writing at home