Unit 10
Section One: Tactics for Listening Part 1--Phonetics Archer: Excuse me, do you speak Enlgish? Woman: Yes, a little.
Archer: I’m looking for a bank.
Woman: I’m sorry, could you say that again, please? Archer: I’m looking for a bank.
Woman: There’s a bank just round the corner. I can show you where it is.
Archer: Thank you very much. That’s very kind of you. Woman: That’s all right.
Archer: Your English is very good.
Woman: I’m learning English at evening classes. Are you here on holiday?
Archer: No, I’m giving some lectures at the university. Woman: Well, I hope you enjoy yourself here. Part 2--Listening and Note-Taking Woman: How do you find living on a grant? Can you manage it? Man: Well, rent is the biggest item on my budget. That’s more than ￡8. I’m quite luck, because I share a house with some friends and it’s quite near the University, and we share the bill, of course, you know, gas, electricity and that. They come about ￡1.50. After rent comes food--that’s my next biggest expense, I suppose. Of course, I can’t afford to eat in restaurants or anything like that.
Woman: What about books? Do you have to spend a lot on books? Man: Well, well, it depends,--I mean last week I spend ￡3.25 just on one book, and that’s about average for a week, I’d say.
Woman: Do you buy newspapers and magazines much?
Man: Well, not a lot, because—well, they have them in the college library, you see, but I reckon to spend about, urn ￡1, or ￡1.5 on papers.
Woman: What about entertainment, do you go out a lot?
Man: Well, I go to the pub nearly every evening if that’s what you mean, you know, for a drink with you know, with my friends, and I smoke and well, altogether I spend about ￡5 a week on that.
Woman: So it’s not very easy to live on your grant then, is it? Man: No, no, not really, I work, I get job every vacation as a driver or in a factory or something like that…There’s nothing I can give up really
. I mean, if I give up smoking, I’ll only save ￡1.50 pe week anyway. Sometimes I save on transport—that averages aout ￡2 a week usually, but if I hitchhike home to my parents for example, I save on the train fare, and that’s quite a bit…
Exercise
Spending (per week) Item rent bill(gas, electricity) food books papers transport entertainment Money spent ￡8 ￡1.50 ￡5.50 ￡3.25 ￡1.50 ￡2 ￡5 Section Two: Listening Comprehension Part 1--Dialogues Dialogue 1: The National Telecom Showroom
Mrs Fennell: Have you any idea what time the National Telecom Showroom opens, Kate?
Kate Mitcham: The National Telecom Showroom? No, I’m afraid I haven’t. Why don’t you phone them?
Mrs Fennell: Can you pass me the telephone directory, please? Kate Mitcham: Yes, er... Do you want L to R or S to Z? Mrs Fennell: L to R, I suppose. Thanks.
Information clerk: Good morning. National Telecom Showroom. Mrs Fennell: Could you tell me what time the showroom opens, please?
Information clerk:Certainly. It opens at 10 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m. on Monday to Fridays.
Mrs Fennell: Thank you. And could you possibly send me some information about office systems?
Information clerk: Of course. We have some brochures. Would you like to give me your name and address?
Mrs Fennell: Yes, my name’s Fennell. F-e-double n-e-double l. And the address is Communico Limited, 138 East Avenue, London N19.
Information clerk: N19. Right. I’ll put that in the post to you today. Do you require anything else?
Mrs Fennell: No, that’s all, thank you. Exercise :
1. What does Mrs Fennell want to know?
(She wants to know when the National Telecom Showroom opens) 2. Where can she find the telephone number?
(She can find the telephone number from the telephone directory.) 3. When does the showroom open?
( It opens at 10 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays.) 4. Why does the Infromation clerk want to know her name and address?
( Because he wants to send her some brochures by post.) 5. Where does Mrs Fennell work?
(She works for a company, Communico Limited.) Dialogue 2: At Heathrow Airport
Nick and Lise are waiting for Malcolm at Heathrow Airport. They are listening to the announcements, but there is a lot of noise.
Lise: Could you hear, Nick? Did she say “Toronto”?
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