natural english upper intermediate istening booklet

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

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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0.1

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

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 —

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?

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

Td, I wish I'd done it ages ago, really It’s great.

y2

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:

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

1 it all seemed exciting

2 a few things Thadn’t

1.4

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

like to read books that are, erm, that are

1.4

a Try saying these words from the

tapescript How many syllables do

they have? Write the number of

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

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

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

lamp when I heard my parents on the corridor, because they could see the light through the door, and it was so exciting,

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

Check your answers with the

tapescript

unitone 5

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!’

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

are?

B Thaven't a clue

2.5

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

CH Hmm Are they mosquito bites?

CUI think so I don't

CH Do you mind if I, can I see them?

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

CU So how much is that gonna cost me?

2.5

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

What has he done?

have /hav/ or /av/

They could have gone

What were you doing yesterday?

Practise saying the examples

(remember not to stress the

auxiliary verb), How fast can you

say them?

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,

a lot to do with what's going on

P Mental strength

CD Yeah, (Mm) that’s right

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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

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:

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

Australian rainforest

decide what kind of group we

eighteen and twenty-five

The age range was late

to early twenties

7 The main _ was

the character of the people

8 We gave everyone a medical

3.4

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!

fitness instructor; I'm a keen gymnast My

proudest moment was winning a silver medal

in the long jump If I won the $30,000 on Eden, Td probably buy a yacht and run it as a tourist business My motto is never run after a train, bus, or man, because another will come along!

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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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

J Great, wonderful, so then we've got the, the full monty

=-z.=z

4.4

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

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

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

16 unit four

4.4 b The homophones you need for part

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

O it’s right there on the comer ween ad pees nee

O between Birmingham and Tend ee ee, Bee site male ee ng pear

© we'll be having lunch Check with the answer key

(0 Hello

O rm stuck on this train 4.6 f

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

one /won/ there /dea/

Now look at these words

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

another word pronounced in the

same way but spelt differently

5.1

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,

and erm, of people, so, erm, I did it And the

spider was absolutely gigantic Oh, when

I came out, I was so relieved to get it

over with, But the trouble is, I just don’t

feel the same way about my wife any

more

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)

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

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

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

6.1

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

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 they tend to be rather low-key The

Italian female news, er, newsreaders

are very, very made-up, and you

know, wear lots of jewellery, and look

you know, almost like film stars, erm,

and the men too have quite high,

high-profile personalities, I'd say

6.4

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

a Look at these examples:

several people have Be s ) kidnapped by the rebels-This/could lead to further violence in the

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

3 Australia are / in current / people

in / affairs / really interested /

b Listen to the second part of the

interview, which starts That's right,

to check your answers

Then check with the tapescript

unit six 21

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

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

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

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

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

Canfield Football Club has announced that their goalkeeper, Dino Walker, is helping police with their enquiries Walker was arrested at his house earlier today in connection with allegations of bribery It is rumoured that he was paid a large sum of money to let in goals and lose a match

Canfield Football Club have said that Walker will not be considered for future matches until the incident has been fully investigated,

6.5

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

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

unit six 23

7.3 7.1

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,

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!

Yes, and we've learnt from it.