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Listening Skills Practice: Important People - Exercises: 1. Check Your Understanding: Matching

This document provides listening exercises to practice understanding a discussion about important people in speakers' lives. 1. There are matching, gap fill, and true/false exercises to check comprehension before listening. The matching defines relationships like "we have a lot in common." 2. The gap fill asks to identify the important person each speaker discusses, like a childhood friend or brother. 3. The true/false statements test understanding of details about the speakers' relationships, such as arguing about a boy or going to the same university.

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Listening Skills Practice: Important People - Exercises: 1. Check Your Understanding: Matching

This document provides listening exercises to practice understanding a discussion about important people in speakers' lives. 1. There are matching, gap fill, and true/false exercises to check comprehension before listening. The matching defines relationships like "we have a lot in common." 2. The gap fill asks to identify the important person each speaker discusses, like a childhood friend or brother. 3. The true/false statements test understanding of details about the speakers' relationships, such as arguing about a boy or going to the same university.

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Listening skills practice: Important people – exercises

Listen to the speakers talking about important people in their lives and do the exercises to practise and
improve your listening skills.

1. Check your understanding: matching


Do this exercise before you listen. Match the phrases with the correct definition and write a – f next to the
numbers 1 – 6.

We 1…… She looked


have a good, friendlyafter me.
relationship. She took care aof me.
.. .
We hang
He likes the same outas
things a lot.
me. We have many similarities.
2…… b
.. . We stopped being friends. (Especially after an
3…… We get on well. c. argument.)
..
We spend a lot of time together.
4…… We fell out. d.
..

5…… We have a lot in common. e.


..

2. Check your understanding: gap fill


Complete the gaps with a word from the box.

childhood friend brother best friend

next-door neighbour boyfriend

1. Speaker A is talking about her________________ .

2. Speaker B is talking about his________________ .

3. Speaker C is talking about her________________ .

4. Speaker D is talking about his________________ .

5. Speaker E is talking about her________________ .


3. Check your understanding: true or false
Circle True or False for these sentences.

1. A – Her next-door neighbour also worked with her mum. Tr False


ue
2. A – Her next-door neighbour has a healthier lifestyle now. Tr False
ue
3. B – He didn’t see his brother after he went to university. Tr False
ue
4. B – He supports the same football team as his brother. Tr False
ue
5. C – She and her friend argued about a boy. Tr False
ue
6. C – She is going to go to the same university as her friend. Tr False
ue
7. D – He didn’t have much in common with his friend when they were young. Tr False
ue
8. E – She didn’t like the look of her boyfriend at first. Tr False
ue

Which people have been important in your life?

Who are you closest to in your family?

Who are your closest friends?

Which other people have been important in your life?

Vocabulary Box Write any new words you have learnt in this lesson.

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