Listening Booster
Look at the drawings.
Match the emotions to the people.
embarrassed
furious
surprised
bored
anxious
Think of the various experiences you have had at different times in your life when you felt these emotions.
In small groups, tell each other your anecdotes.
Ask the rest of the group to guess what emotion you felt.
Listen to the other students.
Which emotions are they describing?
Now look at the following list of emotions.
Check the meaning of any you are unsure of.
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You are going to listen to people expressing these emotions, both in what they say and how they say it.
Match the emotions and the statements by writing the numbers in the boxes above.
Compare your answers with a partner’s.
Then listen to the recording again, checking your answers.
Try to practise the intonation used for each one if you like.
‘How are you feeling?’
Pick out one or two adjectives from the table below.
You must express the adjective in just one sentence without saying the adjective.
Use any kind of topic or context.
Use tone, stress and intonation to get your emotion across.
Your partner must guess how you are feeling.
You are going to listen to two dialogues in which the speakers are expressing different emotions.
Answer the questions about how the people are feeling.
EXAM TIP! Read the questions first.
Conversation 1
How are the people feeling?
a Annoyed.
b Surprised.
c Excited.
d Depressed.
The woman?
The man?
Conversation 2
How do the people feel about the situation?
a Embarrassed.
b Confused.
c Impatient.
d Desperate.
The woman?
The man?
Compare your answers with a partner’s.
Explain your choice
Listen to the recording again
Check your answers and discuss the language used to express the feelings and the intonation.
Read the transcripts on Learnclick and practise the dialogues in pairs - Use tone, stress And intonation to get your emotion across.
Practice
We often have conversations in small groups.
In Listening Part 2, you will listen to conversations between three people and will need to identify things like
Context?
Relationship?
Purpose?
opinions?
likely outcomes?
Other?
It will help you prepare to answer Listening Part 2 questions if you think about conversations in these ways.
Group Activity
Work in groups of three.
Prepare conversations which give each of you a different role.
Make the conversations typical of those you have and hear every day in different places and among different people.
Try to give each of the speakers at least two or three lines in the conversation.
Think of two questions to go with each of your conversations and write down your answers.
Your questions can include things like:
Where is the conversation taking place?
Which of the three speakers doesn’t really want to go to the party?
Why does [name] laugh?
How many of the speakers think the film was boring?
Give the other students your two questions.
Act out your conversations once only for the other students.
Can they guess the answers to your questions?
What gave the clues to the correct answers to each conversation?
This may have been things like:
mention of several parts of a railway station, hospital, etc.
speaker’s voice sounding reluctant, uncertain, etc.
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