Dave
27 lug 20212 min
Aggiornato il: 28 lug 2021
It will help you to prepare to answer the questions in Listening Part 1 if you think about the things we express.
Can you think of any?
How many of the following A to Z boxes can you fill with things you might express?
There are one or two examples.
Add as many others as you can think of.
Compare your answers with those of the other students if you can.
What answers do you have?
There will always be two speakers.
The pattern will be as in this example.
Speaker A: ‘You’re here at last. It’s about time!’
Speaker B: ‘Sorry, have you been waiting long?’
Speaker A: ‘Forty minutes! Where on earth have you been?’
You then have to choose the best of three or four options to continue the conversation.
In this case, the options could be:
a.I’ve travelled quite a lot recently.
b.Yes, most of the time.
c.Oh well, that’s okay, then.
d.I’m really sorry – I had to stay on at work.
The best option is d because it expresses apology and explanation.
Prepare short conversations on the Speaker A, Speaker B... pattern and write down what speaker B says as the final line of the conversation.
Now act out the first three lines of your conversations.
Do this once only and ask the other students to write down:
●(i) What speaker B will express (e.g. sympathy)
●(ii) How speaker B will express it (e.g. ‘Oh, I’m sorry to hear that’)
Now act out the first three lines of your conversations.
Tell the other students what you wrote down for the final sentence in the short conversation and see if they have guessed what speaker B was expressing and how he/she expressed it.