Blog Portfolio/ Oral Skills/WendyGihan URL:

http://sydneyinstituteonline.net/letstalk/2009/05/02/wendy-gihan-coffee-break/

LISTENING EXERCISES

Print this worksheet to work on it while you listen.

TOPIC

What are they talking about? What is their main topic of conversation?

VOCABULARY

Below are most of the names and some difficult words and expressions used by Wendy And Gihan.Check their meaning if you don’t know it. Then listen and tick the words when you hear them.GihanplanninglaterturningBarbieas old asborn recently paperSydneyWeekendresearchperspective blondeleggyover timelastedadaptedtest of timekept up withcompetitors bring outdollssimilarwin outI bet youit’s got to doamounttwo-waymirror Oh gosh!quoted iton the floorbedshelf collectorI must admita scientificmindmelted

Listen again and do the exercises below.COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

1.What’s Wendy planning? ………………………………………………………………………..2.When and why? ………………………………………………………………………………….………………………………………………………………………………………………………..3.What does she always tell people?………………………………………………………………………………………………………...4.What did they see in the newspaper weekend magazine?………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5.What does Gihan say they are studying in her course at university?………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………6.What does Barbie look like and what doesn’t she look like?Rosa OchoaLet’s Talk St George ESOL 2009

Blog Portfolio/ Oral Skills/WendyGihan URL:

http://sydneyinstituteonline.net/letstalk/2009/05/02/wendy-gihan-coffee-break/

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………7.Why has Barbie lasted the test of time?8.What have her competitors done without success?………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9.What do researchers think if a child leaves her Barbie doll on the floor or bed?………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………10.What does it mean if the Barbie doll is on the shelf?………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

CASUAL CONVERSATION

How do they start their conversation? How do they keep it going? Listen and write it down filling thegaps:

Greeting

WendyHi Gihan,………………………………………………………….Gihan…………………………………………………………………….Wendy………....………………………………………………………….

News

WendyI’m planning....……………………………………………………………....………………………………………………………….………....………………………………………………………….

Responding

GihanAh! She was too!WendyYeah! She just ……… fifty ……………………………………..

Relating

GihanDid you see that, em, it was in-what’s that paper called thatcomes with the Sydney weekend? the Sydney Weekender!WendyYeah, the Sydney Weekender, yeah.GihanDid you……that whole two spread that they had on her?WendyYes,……………………. Yes.GihanHow she’s ……………… over the times?

Adding

Gihan………….. in the class that I’m doing, one of my ……at uni, welook at ……………………………….. and we looked at ………that goes into ……………You would not ………….. theresearch that ………. into her.WendyBut she still …………….. like a ………. Woman!GihanI know!WendyO know. Still blonde and ………..

Feedback

The speakers give feedback to each other to show that they are interested in the conversation andfollow its content. Sometimes they even finish the sentences at the same time.Write down the ways they give feed back. It could be a work, sound or a whole sentence.Continue on the next page to get a script of the anecdote and analyse its structure.Rosa OchoaLet’s Talk St George ESOL 2009