| Using Listening tip: hearing repeated words
This Listening tip encourages students to fi lter out the
repeated short fi ller words we all use in daily dialogue.
1. Ask students to look at the type of words that get
repeated (articles, pronouns, conjunctions).
2. Ask students if they recognize the same trait in their
own language.
3. Play the recording and see how many they can hear.
There are fi ve:
we— we still play
play tennis or— or squash
This— this summer
the— the four of us
make excuses to— to meet up
4. Students can use the transcript on p.108 to check their
answers in pairs.
5. Play the recording again and feed back with the whole class.
Using Useful vocabulary and phrases: personality
Expand students’ vocabulary for describing personality:
1. Ask students to work in pairs or small groups to think up
as many personality adjectives as they can and write each
of them on small pieces of paper.
2. Collect them up, put them in a hat, box or bowl.
3. Pick them out one by one and ask the students to
decide if they are positive or negative characteristics –
remembering that they could be both or just neutral
as well.
MUSIC IN CLASS
If you want music and songs in your classroom you might
want to use She’s Electric by Oasis as a lyrics gap fi ll exercise.
It contains some key vocabulary from the unit: family, sister,
brother, mother, cousin, I’ve got, she’s got, get on with.
Do be aware that this song contains lyrics that might cause
offence, or be unsuitable for some audiences.
Listening (A2 Pre-intermediate)
English Readers
English for Life
Unit 2: Daily Life
SUMMARY
You can use this summary to guide the learning objectives
and target setting for your class.
Can-do statements
By the end of this unit, students will be able to say:
• I can understand people talking about regular
activities.
• I can listen for different times of day.
• I can understand what time of day people do things.
• I can understand how regularly people do things.
Skill focus
Listening for general understanding:
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