Author(s): Miles Craven Publisher: Cambridge ISBN: 9780521705882 |
Starting, maintaining and ending coversations. Includes language for responses - so / neither etc.
Includes 3 listening passages
Listening: Students listen to short conversations and identify the subjects, whether or not the speakers agree and the key language used.
Speaking: Listen to tape and make oral responses
Language for ordering and describing food and drink, deciding who pays and complaining.
Understanding (spoken) restaurant reviews
Adejctives for describing food. Includes listening passage with waitress describing dishes on a menu
Rather skimpy picture matching exercise
Finding accommodation - phoning a property agent
Asking for information
Explaining requirements
Tenant / Landlord dialogue. (Tenant wants to make changes to flat.}
Tenants phone a property agent about problems in their flats
Returning unsatisfactory items to a shop
Asking for information about products in a shop
Listening: film review
Speaking: talking about a favourite film from prompts
(+ Listening: six people describe TV programmes)
Six people describe TV programmes
Listening to radio news headlines and main stories
Summarizing news stories - choose most accurate of three summaries
Speaking: make news programme in groups
Listening : doctor / patient conversations
Language for describing health problems
Saying what's wrong
Language for showing concern and relief (at medical problems)
Doctor / patient role play
Very slight vocab activity: cruise, city break, skiing holiday etc
Listening: six speakers talk about their preferred types of holiday
Listening: Booking a holiday. Spot the errors on booking form
Speaking: travel recommendations
Speaking: asking for detailed information
Answering tourists questions in your home town
Asking a tour guide questions
Listening: renting a car - asking for details
Listening: asking a friend for advice about a holiday destination
Speaking: asksing for information about holiday destinations
Listening: an informal talk about Peru
Speaking: asking questions about tourist attractions in Singapore from picture prompts
Speaking / Listening: asking questions when on a guided tour