LISTENING ACTIVITY

NAME: DOMENICA CUNALATA

LEVEL: 5C
DATE: MARCH 30TH, 2020
Listen to two neighbors discussing an incident. Choose the picture that best illustrates
what happened.

2. Work in pairs. Discuss the questions. Then listen again and check.
1 Why didn’t Phil see the incident?
Because he is a deep sleeper.
2 Who did Jess learn about the incident from?
Tara at number 42
3 How could the argument between the drivers have been avoided?
Because the police arrived.
4 Who was one of the drivers identified as?
A local politician.
5 What happened in the end?
The police took them both away for questioning.
3. Look at the box. Complete the phrases Jess (J) uses to report what someone said and
Phil (P) uses to say how reliable this source was. Then listen again and check.
1 J: I heard that it was an argument between two drivers and pretty nasty.
2 J: It seems that one of the drivers became really aggressive.
3 P: I’d take what Tara says with a grain of salt.
She tends to blow things out of proportion.
4 J: She figures that that if the police hadn’t arrived, there would have been a fight.
5 J: Someone said they had seen one of the drivers before. Apparently, he is a local
politician.
6 P: I think I’d take his Word for it; he’s not the type to spread gossip.

7 J: Well, according to Chris, they took them both away.