Listen to the news broadcast and answer the questions about each news item. (2 listenings.)

1. The Distillers’ Company are planning to “axe” some jobs.

1) How many? More than a hundred or less than a hundred?

2) How many plants are they going to close?

2. Three youths attacked a 19-year-old airman.

1) Did he have to go to hospital?

2) Was any money stolen, and if so, how much?

3. Two women tried to use a stolen credit card.

1) How old were the women?

2) What did they try to buy?

a) wine b) spirits c) cigarettes d) a car

3) What colour car did they drive away in?

4) Which of the women had dyed blonde hair?

4. People in Amport go to church for an unusual reason.

1) What is the reason?

2) Is the post-office unique?

5. What has been stolen in Cassington, near Witney?

a) camping equipment c) a camera from a kitchen

b) cooking equipment d) camera attachments

6. Which of these words can you hear in the weather forecast?

cool sunny intervals nineteen north-western

cold shining intervals ninety north-westerly

cloudy Tuesday wet north-easten

snow outdoors dry north-easterly winds

showers outlook strong

 

 

SECTION 4

 

TOPIC: AT THE MAP OF THE WORLD

 

UNIT 1

Lesson A. IN-CLASS LISTENING

Text Title: English towns

Cassette: From Streamline English. Directions, by P.Viney

Pre-Listening Exercises

Before listening to the text name as many English towns as you can.

Go through the following list of words and word combinations.

Salisbury [Èsùlzb«rI] Gwynedd [ÈgwIn«D]

Caernarfon [k«ÈnAùv«n] the River Avon [ÈeIv«n]

Durham [ÈdÃr«m] the River Mersey [ÈmÎùzI]

Stonehenge [Çst«UnÈhendZ]

supply (food/water/ coal, etc.) - запас продовольствия, воды, угля и т.д.

a ring road - кольцевая дорога

site (building/strategic) - площадка (строительная/стратегическая)

bend - поворот дороги, излучина реки

ferry - паром

coal mining - добыча угля

leasure area - зона отдыха

conurbation [Çkn«ÈbeIS«n] - большой город с пригородами

Liverpudlian [ÇlIv«ÈpÃdlI«n] - житель Ливерпуля

descent [dIÈsent] - происхождение

spire [ÈspaI«] - шпиль

be founded - быть основанным

be invested as … - быть провозглашенным …

surviving - существующий ныне, сохранившийся

infamous [ÈInf«m«s] - позорный, бесславный

 

 

Listening Exercises

You’ll hear 4 texts about the English towns of Salisbury, Caernarfon, Durham and Liverpool.

2.1.While listening focus on the essential characteristics of the towns: their having a cathedral, a market; their origin and inhabitants.

Check your understanding by choosing the right alternative.

1. a) All the towns are cathedral towns.

b) Caernarfon, Durham and Liverpool are cathedral towns.

c) Salisbury, Durham and Liverpool are cathedral towns.

2. a) Salisbury and Liverpool are not market towns.

b) All the towns are market centres for the surrounded region.

c) Salisbury, Durham and Caernarfon are market towns.

3. a) All the towns were started by Romans.

b) Only Caernarfon and Salisbury were started by Romans.

c) None of the towns were started by Romans.

4. a) All the towns are cosmopolitan.

b) Durham and Liverpool are cosmopolitan towns.

c) Only Liverpool is a cosmopolitan city.