A. Give brief answers to the following questions.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
The Isle of Wight.
They were not pleased with their hotel.
He decided to write to the Manager of Happytours. A travel Agency.
The hotel and travel arrangements.
They will never book any future holidays through Happytours.
B. Fill in he blanks with the words used in the brochure and by Mr. Wilson to describe the hotel and travel
arrangement.
Hotel Brochure Mr. Wilson Comfortable, mediumsized, Half a mile from the sea, with with a magnificent view our room overlooking a car park of the sea Courteous, old fashioned The majority of the staff were Foreigners and couldn’t speak Or understand English Strictly beefburgers and chips or Fish and chips, wine at exorbitant prices didn’t get away till 6 pm Service Food excellent Atmosphere relaxed, friendly Journey home 11.00 am ferry Task 2: At the Travel Agency A. Multiple Choice.
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B. True or False Questions.
C. Fill in the blanks with the two things that Miss Bush will do.
1. her two friends, to stop over with her on the way back. 2. Mr. Adams to stop with her in Cairo. Section II
A Saturday Afternoon A. Identification.
Name Gillian
Dr. Carmichael
Maurice Featherstone
B. Multiple Choice.
Identification
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C. True or False Questions.
D. Fill in the blanks with information about Maurice.
Name: Maurice Featherstone Sex: male Age: old Appearance: clear, blue, honest eyes; white hair and a pinkish complexion Temperament: gentle and mild-mannered Length of stay in the hospital: 35 years Reasons for entering the hospital:
1. When he was 17, he burnt down his school. 2. Over the next few years, there were a number of mysterious fires in his neighborhood. 3. Later he tried to set fire to the family mansion. Visits from family members: No. Bills: paid on time. E. Blank-filling.
1. slightly uneasy, unlocked the gates, waved her through 2. withdrawn, depressed, normal, kept locked up, all of them, too dangerous to live in normal society. 3. with the staff, a surprise, let him go out for the afternoon, flower show, quite excited, a birthday cake, decorated the lounge. Section III
Task 1: Learning to Predict
1. Answer: he fails to employ the correct question form.
Reason: “Consequently” suggests a result of the facts mentioned earlier. 2. Answer: difficulties may still arise.
Reason: “even when” suggests that in spite facts, something else still exists. 3. Answer: the student may not have clearly heard what was said.
Reason: “In other words” is often followed by an explanation in clearer and easier words. 4. Answer: may feel angry at receiving such orders.
Reason: “However” suggests an opposite fact.
5. Answer: whether crops should be used to produce food or should be used to produce fuel.
Reason: “That is” is also followed by an explanation. 6. Answer: a small industrial sector.
Reason: “At the same time” suggests the coexistence of two things. Here prediction is also based on
common knowledge. Task 2: Dictation
The School Holidays Are Too Long
Today the children of this country have at last returned to work. After two months’ holiday pupils have started a new term. How many adults get such long holidays? Two to four weeks in the summer and public holidays--that’s all the working man gets. As for the average woman, she’s lucky to get a holiday at all. Children don’t need such long holidays. In term-time they start work later and finish earlier than anyone else.
In the holidays most of them get bored, and some get into trouble. What a waste! If their overworked parents were given more free time instead, everyone would be happier.
This isn’t just a national problem either--it’s worldwide. Dates may be different from country to country, but the pattern’s the same. Why should children do half as much work and get twice as much holiday as their parents?
Lesson 6
Section I
Task 1: In the Path of the Earthquake A. True or False Questions.
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B. Map 1 is a layout of the Skinners’ farm. Mark out the plants and buildings in the map. Then in map 2
draw a new plan of the Skinners farm after the quake.
Map 1:
1. farm house 5. eucalyptus trees Map 2:
2. garden path 6. raspberry patch
3. cypress trees 7. cow shed
4. rose garden 8. granary
Task 2: A Funny Thing Happened to Me. A. Multiple Choice.
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B. Give brief answers to the following questions.
1. Last Friday. 2. He was a student. 3. In London. 4. By taxi. 5. The taxi got stuck in a traffic jam and the train had left by the time he got to the station. 6. 1 hour. 7. The station buffet. 8. An evening newspaper, the “Standard”. 9. At a table near the window. 10. He did the crossword puzzle. C. True or False Questions. D. Blank-filling.
1. reached across, opened, took one, dipped, into, popped it into. 2. get up and go, pushed back, stood up, hurried out of.
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Section II
Consolidation: A Very Beautiful Story
A. Give brief answers to the following questions.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
A tape from Gentleman Jim. Yesterday. Jim’s wife. There was a message hidden in the tape. Half the police force in London and 3 experts. Nothing had been found yet. Happy memories and things. In his words.
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B. True or False Statements.
C. Discuss with your classmates what message is hidden in Gentleman Jim’s recording.
D. Listen to the 2nd part of the policeman’s discussion and list all the things they feel unusual about
Gentleman Jim’s recording.
1. 2. 3. 4.
Jim keeps telling his wife to play the message over and over again. Jim tells his wife that she’ll find something comforting. Jim keeps saying “very beautiful” over and over again. The speech doesn’t sound natural. E. Listen to Gentleman Jim’s recording again and work out the message.
Answer: There are 2 gold bricks in the garden under the big red rose tree. Section III
Task 1: Listening to Predict
1. Answer: a glance at the headings of sections or sub-sections will show the order in which the items are
introduced.
2.
3. 4. 5. 6.
Reason: “In addition” is followed by a supplementary idea. Prediction here is also based on common
knowledge.
Answer: providing a summary which can be re-read later.
Reason: “As well as” is often followed by an idea of the same importance as the one before “as well
as”.
Answer: may not appear in a bibliography. Reason: “However” suggests an opposite idea.
Answer: (no more than try to cover the most important ones here. Reason: “Therefore” suggests a result. Answer: it doesn’t.
Reason: “Unfortunately” suggests that something opposite to one’s expectation will happen. Answer: it’s still important.
Reason: “Though” suggests that in spite of the fact that follows, something still happens.
Task 2: Dictation
Sign Language
Deaf people, people who can’t hear, are still able to communicate quite well with a special language. It’s called sign language. The speaker of sign language uses hand gestures in order to communicate. Basic sign language has been used for a long, long time, but sign language wasn’t really developed until about 250 years ago. In the middle of the 1700s a Frenchman named Epée developed sign language. Epée was able to speak and hear, but he worked during most of his life as a teacher of deaf people in France. Epée developed a large number of vocabulary words for sign language. Epée taught these words to his deaf students. Epée’s system used mostly picture :image signs. We call them picture image signs because the signs create a picture. For example, the sign for sleep is to put both hands together, and then to place the hands flat against the right side of your face, and then to lower your head slightly to the right. This action was meant to show the position of sleep. So we call it a picture image sign.
Lesson 7
Section I
Task 1: Learning a Foreign Language A. Multiple Choice.
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B. True or False Questions.
C. Give brief answers to the following questions.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Albert Humphries. Balham, London. 4 years.
He has been going to an evening class and has watched quite a lot of the BBC television programmes. They use a different book in the class. They make the same mistakes as he does.
It means being able to put together the right groups of words and to say them in a reasonably accurate way.
Task 2: In the Library A. Multiple Choice.
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B. True or False Questions.