Use the sentences from the ex. 1.3. to help you match a word in A with a definition in B.

A. B.

1. earnest [ÈÎùnIst] a) legal protector

2. misfortune [mIsÈfùtS«n] b) to take someone into one’s arms,

3. charitable [ÈtS«rIt«bl] to hug (formal)

4. disposition c) to mark sth permanently

5. guardian [ÈgAùdI«n] d) sth extremely undesirable that

6. embrace happens to you

7. elaborate [IÈlQb«r«t] e) able to contain a lot, roomy

8. remote [rIÈm«Ut] (very formal)

9. revolting f) kind, generous

10. brand g) no longer living – used especially

11. capacious [k«ÈpeIS«s] of someone who has recently died

12. abstraction h) far from in distance or time

13. perambulator [p«ÈrQmbjUleIt«] i) serious

bassinette [ÇbQsIÈnet] j) character, temperament (formal)

14. late k) baby carriage, pram (archaic or

l) disgusting

m) a state in which you do not notice what is happening around you

n) thorough

Listening Exercises

2.1. You are going to hear three extracts from the play The Importance of Being Earnest. Listen carefully and say what acts the extracts A, B and C are from.

Listen to each extract separately. Note down the names of the characters and identify the relationships between them.

State if the following statements are True or False.

Extract A

1. Mr John Worthing is engaged to be married to Miss Cardew.

2. Mr Algernon Moncrieff is engaged to be married to Miss Fairfax.

 

Extract B

1. Twenty-five years ago Miss Prism left Lord Bracknell’s house in charge of a perambulator that contained a baby.

2. Lord Bracknell’s house is number 114, in Upper Grosvenor street.

3. A week later the perambulator was discovered but the baby was not there.

4. The perambulator contained a three-volume romance which Miss Prism enjoyed reading during her few unoccupied hours at that time.

5. Miss Prism put the baby into the bag by mistake as she was in a hurry.

 

Extract C

1. Mr Cardew’s name was James.

2. Worthing is a seaside resort in Sussex.

3. Mr Worthing was found in a large, brown leather handbag. It was an ordinary handbag.

4. Mr Cardew got the bag in the cloak-room of the railway station in Bringhton.

 

Language Focus

Translation

1. Очевидно, он был состоятельным человеком.

2. Он аристократического происхождения?

3. Будет ближе к истине сказать, что, вероятно, мои родители потеряли меня.

4. Он дал мне фамилию Ворвинг, так как в тот день у него в кармане был билет 1-го класса до Ворвинга.

5. Эту сумку ему выдали по ошибке вместо его собственной сумки.

6. Что могло заставить вас так подумать?

7. Благодаря тщательному расследованию полиции детская коляска была обнаружена.

8. Вот как все это произошло.

9. Этот день навсегда запечатлелся в моей памяти.

10. По рассеянности я положила рукопись в детскую коляску, а ребенка - в сумку.

11. Это для меня очень важно.

12. Я должен ненадолго удалиться к себе в комнату.

 

Follow-Up Activity

Choose the extract you like best. Get ready to tell the other students in class what it’s about.

 

CONSOLIDATION 6

Lesson A. IN-CLASS LISTENING

TEST

Lesson B. OUT-OF-CLASS LISTENING

Text Title: Comprehension Check

Cassette: From TOEFL Tests, by P.Sharpe;

Task Listening, by L.Blundell, J.Stokes;

Streamline English. Destinations, by B.Hartley, P.Viney

 

General Comprehension

You will hear 16 short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a third speaker will ask a question about what was said. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers given below and decide which would be the best response to the question you have read. Put down your answers into your answer sheet.

(One listening)

1. (21) (A) Ask about the high cost for repairs

(B) Take the car to the garage in the future.

(C) Fit the car in the future.

(D) Pay for the repairs.

2. (22) (A) Because she is sick.

(B) Because she has to go to the International Students’ Association.

(C) Because she has to work.

(D) Because she does not want to go.

3. (23) (A) Seven o’clock.

(B) Seven-thirty.

(C) Eight o’clock.

(D) Nine o’clock.

4. (29) (A) Ten o’clock.

(B) Nine-thirty.

(C) Nine o’clock.

(D) Five o’clock.

5. (27) (A) Two blocks.

(B) Three blocks.

(C) Four blocks.

(D) Five blocks.

6. (32) (A) That the speakers did not go to the meeting.

(B) That the woman went to the meeting, but the man did not.

(C) That the man went to the meeting, but the woman did not.

(D) That both speakers went to the meeting.

NOTE: collect cal-(AmE) a call paid for by the person who receives it.

7. (34) (A) The operator.

(B) The person receiving the call.

(C) The person making the call.

(D) Bo one. The call is free.

8. (35) (A) At a hotel.

(B) At a library.

(C) At a bank.

(D) At a restaurant.

9. (23) (A) They have spent the summer in Zimbabwe.

(B) They are both from Africa.

(C) They are sisters.

(D) They are interested in art.

10. (26) (A) He is a librarian.

(B) He is a professor.

(C) He is an accountant.

(D) He is a reporter.

11. (27) (A) S.75

(B) S.10

(C) S.3.25

(D) S.5.00

12. (29) (A) At the office

(B) At home

(C) On the way to the bank.

(D) With her husband.

13. (33) (A) That she did not get a letter from her family today.

(B) That she got a letter from her family two days ago.

(C) That she got a letter from her family today.

(D) That she does not expect to get any letters from her family.

14. (34) (A) What the fight number is.

(B) What time the flight departs.

(C) Where to find a telephone.

(D) Where to board that plane.

NOTE: to balance – to show or make sure that the money that has been spent is equal to the money that is available.

15. (24) (A) The man.

(B) The man’s wife.

(C) The woman.

16. (35) (A) The office is usually crowded.

(B) There aren’t usually any people in the office.

(C) Only a few people work in the office.

(D) The office is closed today.