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Everyday English Speaking

8 choose the best replies for the questions. 3 Work in groups. interview your friends about
1. What time does the match start? their likes. take notes in the table and report
it to your class.
2. I want to visit Ha Long Bay.
3. Where is the Pyramid of Giza? Questions Person Person
4. How many TV channels for children are there in 1 2
your country? 1. What city/ country would
5. Who is the most famous TV interviewer? you like to visit?
a. Me too. 2. What sports/ games do
b. Not many, only 4 or 5. you like playing?
c. It’s in Egypt. 3. What TV programme do
d. Larry King in the USA. you like best?
e. I think it’s at 8.
listening
SkillS
4 listen to the interview with nick and fill in
reading the blanks.
Interviewer: Nick, have you ever taken part in a
1 read the two descriptions of strange sports (1)________________?
sports around the world and choose the Nick: Yes, I have, a (2)_______ competition.
title for them. But I didn’t win any prizes.

Interviewer: Have you ever been to another
(3)______________?
Nick: Yes, I am now here in Viet Nam, and
I’ve been to (4)_______, too.
Interviewer: Have you ever watched a (5)_______
A. Putting Your Toes B. Who’s faster: You or series?
Together The Cheese?
Nick: Oh, several. But I like The Adventures
1. ___________ of Peter Pan best.
Cheese rolling is one of the simplest sports. They Interviewer: Thank you, Nick.
roll a big round piece of cheese from the top of a
hill and competitors chase after it. The first person 5 listen to an interview with Phong and
to cross the finish line at the bottom of the hill wins complete the answers with information from
(the cheese of course). the listening.
Very few people can catch the rolling cheese
because it can travel up to 112 km an hour. Questions Answers
What competition? 1. ________________
2. ___________
Toe wrestling is a popular sport for children. Two What country? 2. ________________
children lock their toes together and try to force What cartoon? 3. ________________
the other’s foot to the ground. There is even the
World Toe Wrestling Competition. It first started in Writing
Derbyshire, UK in 1976.
6 mark and tim visited india last summer.
look at the information in the table to write a
2 Which sport is it? complete passage about their visit.
Use the information from the passages in 1 to
tick the correct box. Country India
Putting Who’s faster: Cities Delhi, Madurai
your toes You or The
together. Cheese? Activities watch snake performance, visit temples
1. They need a hill to play the sport. and historic buildings, eat kebabs
2. They use the lower part of the Date Nov 18 - 25
body for the sport.
3. It travels as fast as 112 kilometers People friendly
an hour. Weather very hot
4. It first started in the United Kingdom.

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