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Listening training page 96 Advanced Trainer.

Listening Exam practice page 97

Listening part 4 training and practice pages 98 and 99
 Writing discussion and training pages 86 and 87

Useful language
1. Sewing, carpentry, woodwork, Ensure – arguably – knit – sew –
childchild, housework. essential – restrict themselves to -
2. Tell students about work opportunities / preferable
provide career advise/explain what jobs
are available.
3. Working as an office junior, doing
Saturday job in a shop or café, doing
voluntary work at a hospital, care home
or charity.
4. Students, teenagers, youngsters, youth.
5. Job, employment, careers, trades and
professions.
 Comment adverbials and intensifying adverbs.
Look at this extract. Which word or phrase in each sentence shows the speakers
attitude or opinion about what he says?

You see, unfortunately I’m one of those typical expatriates who spend two years
• Unfortunately
working in this country and three in another. I don’t think I could ever go back to my
• Quite honestly
home country because, quite honestly, I just wouldn’t fit in.

Absolutely completely incredibly totally utterly

a. Complete the sentences below by writing a intensifying adverb from the box in each gap.
b. Say which other intensifying adverb from the box could also be used.
c. Decide how adding an intensifying adverb affects each sentence.

1. We were ………………………… fed up with the crime and feeling of insecurity that surrounded us.
2. I was …………………………. astonished to find that many people looked down on me when I first arrived.
3. I found the short grey days and the continual rain …………………………… depressing.
4. I’d be ……………………. Out of touch.
5. I’ve been …………………………… lucky, though.
a. Listen to CD 2 track 23 Atrainer key pg 247
b. With teacher.
c. They make the adjective more emphatic.
Choose an alternative in italics which form a collocation. There may be more than one option.

1. The Japanese drummers’ performance was extremely / utterly / absolutely amazing. The
audience was
2. absolutely / completely / totally delighted and applauded for about ten minutes.

For immigrants, finding somewhere to live and work is 3. totally / incredibly / perfectly simple
and presents no problem. The difficulty is integrating in the community because local people
are 4. absolutely / utterly / completely indifferent to foreigners, so many of them end up feeling
5. Extremely / incredibly / perfectly depressed.

Temperatures often rise above 40 C in the summer, so this heat is 6. perfectly / totally /
extremely normal. Many newcomers to this part of the world feel 7. totally / extremely /
utterly exhausted by the end of the day unless they have air conditioning.

You’ll need to work hard to learn the language because it’s 8. utterly / extremely / totally hard.
However, if you persist, you’ll find it isn’t 9. extremely / absolutely / incredibly impossible and
you will make progress.
1. Utterly, absolutely – 2. absolutely – 3. incredibly,
perfectly – 4. utterly, completely – 5. extremely,
incredibly 6. perfectly, absolutely 7. totally,
utterly 8. incredibly 9 absolutely.
 Comparing: 1. Far more
Complete the sentences with the words in the box. 2. Like
3. As
As by far far far more like most much much less quite 4. By far
5. Far, much
6. Quite
1. I’m ……………….. Interested in history lessons now that the teacher shows us films.
7. Much less
8. most
2. He’s very good-looking ………………… his father.

3. History lessons are nothing like as boring nowadays ……………… they were when I was at school.

4. ……………………….. the best old castle I have seen on holiday was in Wales.

5. People are ……………………… more involved with researching their family tree now that so …………..
information is on the net.

6. I think people find out …………………… as much from the internet as they do from books.

7. It’s ……………………. Interesting doing family research on your own than with other people.

8. I found the ……………….. Fascinating information about my family by talking to my grandmother.

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Listening part 3 Gold page 35

Speaking part 2 gold page 41