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Listening
El a & 31 Listen to a conversation

between three friends, Laura, Chris and
Mark. What problem does Laura have?
What do Chris and Mark think about
her problem?

b Listen again. Make notes on the
reasons why Laura thinks she has
this problem.
c Work in pairs. Compare notes. What
do you think Laura should do?

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• HELP WITH LISTENING
• Natural rhythm: review
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• • Sentence stress, weak forms, linking and
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• extra sounds all combine to give spoken
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• English its natural rhythm .
a Look at this part of the conversation.
Work in pairs. Student A, mark the
• stressed words and circle the weak
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• forms. Student B, mark the linking and
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• extra sounds (/w/, /j/, / r/ ) .
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• LAURA Well, first_@all, cat
• refuses to go into my bedroom. In
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• my last flat she slept on the end of my
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• rather odd .
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• MARK Well, the previous owners' cat
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• might have slept in that room. Or they
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• HELP WITH VOCABULARY Idioms • could have had a dog .
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• • LAURA They didn't have a cat or a dog .
0 • An idiom is an expression (usually informal) which has a meaning that is •
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• different from the meanings of the individual words. The words are in a • b Work with your partner. Compare
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• fixed order. • answers .
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E1 a Look at the idioms in bold in the article. Match them to meanings • c Look at Audio Script &31 p1 73.
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• 1-12. Write the infinitive forms of the verbs. • Check your answers .
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• 1 be completely different from something • d &
• 31 Listen to the conversation
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• be a far cry from something • again. Notice how the sentence stress,
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• 2 watch for someone or something to appear • weak forms, linking and extra sounds
• • give English its natural rhythm .
• 3 not believe something to be accurate or true •
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• 4 tell someone something that isn't true, as a joke
• a Do you believe in any of these things?
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• 5 be very easy to do Why?/ Why not? Put a question mark if
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• 6 do something to get new energy and enthus[?sm you're not sure .
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• 7 a long way from any towns, villages or other houses
• • telepathy • astrology and horoscopes
• a completely unexpectedly
• • fate • fortune-telling
• 9 make you think seriously about a topic
• • UFOs • life on other planets
• 1 o make people more relaxed in a new situation
• b Work in groups. Discuss your
: 11 make someone extremely happy
opinions on the things in 7a. Give
: 12 sleep very well without waking
• reasons for your opinions .
• b Check in trnffiMilij;tlflj). p155 .
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II Work in pairs. Student A p106. Student B p109.