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101 Listen to Li Cha talking to the Admissions Officer.
Complete the form
Name: Li Cha
Tutor: Stephen Ennis
Age: 1 Class: 2
Start date: 14th February Finish date: 3
Contact number in Australia: 4
Years of study of English: 5
ay Forming questions
1 Use this information about Li Cha to complete the questions
[Family and friends _ Hive with my grandmother in Hong Kong
| My brother is called Shao — he’s nineteen.
|Hoobbies
[like playing table tennis.
Iwant to study IT and Computing at Sydney
| University in Australia
‘Reasons for taking IELTS
Future plans Yd like to work with computers.
My grandmother.
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He's nineteen.
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Ilike playing table tennis.
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So Ican go to the University of Sydney in Australia.
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ITand Computing.
5 What ....
Vd really like to work with computers.
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0 My grandmother.
1 He'snineteen.
2 Ilike playing table
tennis.
3 Solcan goto the
University of Sydney
in Australia.
4 ITand computing,
5 Vdreally like to work
with computers.
Speaking 1
Does he lives here?
‘Do you can speak Chinese?
How often speak you English?
How old you are?
Why you went there?
Who teaching you?
What you are doing?
How to complete this form, please?
Where dohe live now?
When you will go home?
10 What time isit start?
Expanding answers
Correct the mistakes in these questions.
Does hellive here
2
2
2
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a
2
2
1 Choose the most suitable extra information (ah) for the short answers (0-5).
In fact, I'm good at most indoor sports. I'm not very
interested in watching them on the TY, though.
He's a year older than me. We've always got on
really well and spend a lot of time together:
Tm abitnervous about my final exams though!
think I could be quite successful. I'm very
motivated and I'm not frightened of hard work!
‘They do exactly the course | want to do and I think
campus life abroad willbe fascinating,
I'm really fascinated by them and can spend hours
working on my own PC at home.
He works for a major software company. He works
Jong hours, and gets very tired. But he likes what he
does.
She's quite old, but full of life. Sometimes she's abit
strict though.
Exam information
30. in Part 1 of the Speaking module the examiner will ask you general
1 Imagine you are the examiner. Write down five questions about these
Their studies
Future plans
questions about yourself.
TIP
dive full answers and subjects.
add extra information ‘Their home town
about the topic. Family and friends
J Hobbies
2 Work in pairs. Take it in turns to be the examuncr and candidate.
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1 02 Listen to Profesor Gooding i Aree ET soe
countries. Complete the table below a5 °° ‘
THREE WORDS for each answer
[county [Problem
Dependent prepositions
s and nouns we use a preposition
After many adjectives, verbs
Example:
I'm bored with this film. Let's watch something €
ir dependent prepositions in the Expanding
1 Find five adjectives and th
answers section on page 7.
2 Now complete the following sentences from Listening 2 with the correct
preposition.
0 Iwas interested .....if...... learning all about the country.
1 Iwas particularly fascinated ... the architecture.
2. Life in Indonesia is very different...... life in New Zealand
3. I'mvery keen..... spicy food.
4 Iwas pretty good cross-country skiing
5 Iwasa bitnervous going toa country where I couldn’t
read anything,
6 He was really enthusiastic his work
3 02 Listen to Professor Gooding again and check your answers.
4 Look at sentences 0 and 5 in exercise 2. What happens to the form of the
verb after a preposition?
5 Fill in the missing dependent prepositions in the table below.
6 Work in small groups. Roll a dice and look at the sentence with this
number. Then talk about it for 30 seconds.
Three countries you are interested
Aculture you are fascinated
"Acountry where life is very different
[Acountry you wouldn’tbe keen
A language you'd be enthusiastic......
visiting. 4
-learning, 5
visiting. 6
Acity you'd be nervous ..
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