Friday's assignment
Listen to the speakers describing their favourite things and do the exercises to practise and improve your listening skills.
1. Preparation: matching
Do this exercise before you listen. Match the verb with the correct noun and write a – g next to the numbers 1 – 7.
1……e.. take a. a designer
2……g.. listen to b. your scooter
3……d.. watch c. a business
4…….f. stroke (= move your hand gently over something) d. films
5…….b. park e. photos
6……a.. make it as (= be successful as) f. the cat
7…….c. set up (= start) g. music
2. Check your understanding: matching
Match the speakers with their favourite things. Write a – e next to the numbers 1 – 5.
1…a….. Speaker A a. a tablet
2…e….. Speaker B b. a sewing machine
3…c.. Speaker C c. a scooter
4…b.. Speaker D d. a set of knives
5…d.. Speaker E e. a cat
3. Check your understanding: gap fill
Do this exercise while you listen. Write the word to fill the gaps.
A. My favourite thing has to be my new tablet. It’s really light and quite ___small__________, so I take it with me everywhere. I’m always writing to friends and it’s big enough to do college work on it too. It takes really good ____photos_________, and I play games and listen to ___music__________ on it as well, of course. I often download ___films__________ onto it, and watch them in ___bed__________. My mum says I’m ___addicted__________, because I’m always on it. I even read things on it at breakfast time. I’m not allowed to at ______dinner_______ time, though. I have to be ___polite__________ and talk to people then. “Welcome back to real life,” my mum says.
B. My favourite thing? Does my _____cat________ count as a thing? She’s not really a thing, but anyway. She’s a really _beautiful____________ little cat. I’ve had her since she was _____four________ months old. You know how some cats are really ____independant_________ and hardly talk to you? I know cats don’t really talk, but you know what I mean. Well, she’s not like that at all. She’s really __affectionate___________ and comes up to me as soon as I get home, purring away like mad. She makes a lot of ___noise__________ for a tiny thing. She loves being stroked and comes and curls up next to me when I’m on the ___sofa__________. She’s great __companion___________.
C. My new scooter! It’s quite small, but __fun___________, and just what I needed for getting around the _____city________. I used to have quite a long walk to the ____metro_________, then a longish walk at the other end to get to ______collage_______. But now I can just whiz there on my ____scooter_________. And there’s no problem parking, there’s always ___space __________ for it. You have to be ____careful_________ with the cars and _____lorries________ – they don’t always see you – and when it rains the surface of the road is _____terrible________, it gets really slippery. But in general it’s perfect for me, and I can fit a ___friend__________ on the back too – I’ve got an extra ___helmet__________ for a friend. It’s great. Riding along makes me feel so free.
D. This might sound a bit old-fashioned, but my sewing ____machine_________ is my favourite thing. I’m studying _____fashion________ and love making things, as well as designing them. I also love ___clothing_________ myself and often buy second-hand clothes – everyone loves the “vintage” ____look_________ at the moment – and then I adapt them to my ____size_________. It’s much easier using a machine to do that than doing it by _____hands________. I do alterations for my mum and my sister too. If I don’t make it as a ___designer__________, I suppose I can always set up my own alterations and customising ____business_______. Customising clothes, by taking things off and adding things on, is actually very __creative___________, so I wouldn’t mind that.
E. My set of Japanese knives. That sounds a bit sinister, doesn’t it, but I’m not a ____murderer_________ or anything. They’re chef’s knives and the best ones come from ____Japan_________. Cooking is my new hobby. I got into it when I started watching Masterchef on TV. Then I went to an evening __class___________ for
beginners, and I haven’t looked back since. I try and have a ____dinner_________ for between four and eight___friends__________ every two or three ____weeks_________. That gives me something to work towards and I
always do new _____dishes________ so they can try them out and give me feedback. It’s quite an___expensive __________ hobby if you use good __ingredients__________, but now my friends help towards the___cost__________. They still get a good _____meal________ for a very low price.
4- What’s your favourite thing?
My favorite thing now are my new tools for polymer clay.
5- Why is it important to you?
They are important, because before I got them I used not professional tools. Now I felt different between old and new ones.
6- Vocabulary Box: Write any new words you have learnt in this lesson.
affectionate
helmet
alteration
look back since
towards
lorries
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