Author(s): Jeremy Harmer Carol Lethaby Publisher: Marshall Cavendish ISBN: 9780462007464 |
(1) Listening : personal financial adviser gives a student budgeting advice
(2) Focus on words and phrases from the script
Four pictures (3 of them abroad), four speakers.
Match picture with speaker.
Vocabulary matching activity - disparate words and phrases.
Interview with photographer who uses darkroom techniques to combine negatives into a single image.
Talks about technique, his preference for film over digital and selling pictures.
Extract from Little House on the Prairie
Pictures of five leisure activities, five people. Guess, listen, match pictures.
Exercises on vocab / phrases from the scripts.
Recorded telephone information about a leisure centre : opening times, facilities etc.
Short radio lecture on behaviourism.
Dialogue with couple arguing about the possibility of paranormal phenomena.
(Humorous?) monologue with driving instructor giving (foreigner?) a driving lesson.
Car parts vocab.
Driving vocab ('release the handbrake' etc.)
Five people talk about the kind of restaurants they like.
Song :Northern Sky by Nick Drake.
Interview with Diana Hayden (1997 Miss World).
Extract from the soundtrack of the movie Gladiator (2000. Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe.)
News-style reports of crimes that went wrong. (Humorous?).
Some crime / court related vocab.
Interview with professional storyteller Jan Blake.
Soundtrack for self-guided tour of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Includes (1) short biography of Van Gogh and
(2) descriptions of two exhibits - self portraits.