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Unit 1

A world of
friend
Listening 1
Brain
storming
1. What does "A world of friends" mean?
2. Do you have friends from other countries?
How did you meet them?
3. What are the benefits of having friends from all
over the world?
What You'll Learn

Listening 1: Listening 2:
The friend force The best summer
Predicting before listening. of my life
Listening for gists and details. Predicting information
Making inference after after "and" and "but".
reaction.
Module 1:
Predicting before listening
Can you guess what type of information
will you listen?

What vocabulary will be included in the


listening text?

What tenses may be used to talk about


events?
Why we need to - to clarify the reasons why we listen (listen and
predict before answer questions, listen and check, etc.)
listening?
- to anticipate what information we will listen.

- to activate our vocabulary and background


knowledge related to the topic to help us
understand better while listening.
What to predict
- Think about the topic of the text
(tittle, headings, pictures, etc.)
- Think about the type of text
(dialogues, lectures, announcements, etc.)
- Consider your background knowledge.
- Predict the situation, speakers,
vocabulary, speakers' emotion, etc.
- Guess the forms and rough meanings
of the answers.
Practice
You will hear a teacher telling her students
about a school trip.
Listen and complete each question.
School trip
Name of programme: ...............................................
Day: ...............................................
Begins at: ...............................................
Channel: ...............................................
Good for (school subject): ................................................
Name of journalist: Sara ..................................

Track 1
Module 2:
Listening for Gists and Details
I. Listening for Gists/ Main ideas
Gists or main ideas are the most important information about something,
general meaning or purpose of the text.

Listening for gists when you try to understand what is happening even if
you can't understand every word/phrase.
Listener picks up words, intonation and other cues to make a guess at the
main ideas.
E.g.: You listen to these words like sand,
cap, towels, waves, board, sunny, etc.
--> You may guess the topic is about a
beach trip.
✔ Sometimes finding the main ideas is
easy as it is found at the begining of
the listening text, but sometimes it is
not too easy and reuires to listen to the
whole conversation to understand the
general meaning.
II. Listening for details
- you listen for words or
phrases at sentence level.
E.g.: Listen to an announcement to
find the time when the train departs.
1 Read the questions or sentences and guess the content vocabulary.
E.g.: Fill in "Tourist Information Form"
--> the topic is about travel and tourism Steps of listening
2 Underline the key words and guess the synonyms or
paraphrases of the key words for details
E.g.: Factors affecting where organisms live
synonym: factor = reason paraphrase: where organisms live = habitat

3 - Identify the information while listening by key words or paraphrases


- Analyse the information, understand the paraphrases or make
4 inference from what you listened to find the correct answers.
E.g.: "Is fat good for your health?"
You listened that "fat increases the rate of heart diseases"
--> You can infer that fat is not good for health.
Practice ListeningB 1:
Complete the The friend force
B for blur
following activities

1 VOCABULARY (Ex 4/p.6)

2 PREVIEW (Exercise on page 6) Track 2

3 MAIN IDEAS (Ex 1, 2/p.7) Track 3

4 DETAILS (Exercises on page 7, 8) Track 3


Module 3:
Making inferences
Discuss the following situation.

You have arrived at your You see there is a You finally open the front
house after work. package on the door and see that the living
All the lights are out. door step room has been cleaned.
Inference is a guess about something that is
not directly stated.
Making inferences while listening means putting
together what you listen with what you have
already know to reach a logical inference.

E.g.: "Will your parents be home?"


- As a parent of your friend asking you the question
before allowing him/her to your house.
- As the friend, hoping your parents will be home.
- As the friend, hoping your parents will not be home
Tips to
make 1 Think about speaker's tone, what
inferences expressions, intonation, posture or
gestures tell you about that tone

2 Understand speakers' reactions


(positive or negative) to infer the
implicit message (intended meaning).

3 Confirm, change, or disregard


inferences as you get more
information.
E.g.:
Q: NINA: Well, first, can college students
be in the Friendship Force?
A: RICK: Sure. We have people of al ages
- teenagers, college students,
even grandparents!
REACTION NINA: Oh, that's great

1. She has a positive/ negative reaction.


2. She ________________.
a. is probably a college student.
b. probably knows some college students
Listen to the excerpts from the conversation and think about the speaker's
reaction. Then make an inference about the speaker's feeling. Choose the correct
Practice answer to complete each sentence.
Excerpt 1: Track 4
1. Nina has a (positive/ negative) reaction.
2. Nina is not worried about living wit a host family, so she is probably a ____ person.
a. shy b. friendly
Excerpt 2: Track 5

1. Nina has a (positive/ negative) reaction.


2. Nina is worried because she doesn't speak Thai. She is really asking Rick, "Will I ____?"
a. have aproblem with my host family b. learn the language

Excerpt 3: Track 6
1. Nina has a (positive/ negative) reaction.
2. Nina likes the idea of "people, not places." She thinks you can learn more about a foreign
country when you ____.
a. meet the people b. visit the importance places
Module 4:
Predict information after
AND and BUT
We use AND to connect two sentences with similar kinds of information.
E.g.: "... we all came from different states, and we had different religions and cultures."
We use BUT to connect two sentences with contrasting information.
E.g.: "At first, I didn't speak much Spanish, but I learned a lot of Spanish from them and in my
Spanish class, too."
PRACTICE
Listen to the excerpts from Annie's interview. You will hear the first sentence and try to predict
what kind of information in the second one. Choose the sentence ending that makes sense.
Excerpt 1: a. I loved my host family. b. I had some problems with my host family. Track 8
Excerpt 2: a. We all came from the same states. b. We all came from different states. Track 9
Excerpt 3: a. At first, I spoke Spanish well. b. At first, I didn't speak much Spanish. Track 10
Listening 2:
Practice B
The best summer
Complete the
following activities
of my
B forlife
blur

1 COMPREHENSION (Exercise on page 10) Track 7

2 VOCABULARY (Exercise on page 11)

3 CONNECT THE LISTENINGS (Exercise on page 13, 14)

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