IEP level 105

Listening: short-answer questions

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 Learning objectives & outcomes

Objectives
• learn to identify different types of information (what are you
listening for?)
• complete a short-answer task
Outcomes
• by the end of this lesson you will be able to listen for specific
information
 Discuss in your groups

1. Is there a lot of crime in your hometown?

2. What sorts of crime are common in your country?

3. What sorts of crime happen on a university campus?

You will hear a conversation about crime on a university
campus
1. What kind of crimes happen on campus?

2. How many crimes are there every year?

3. Who is committing the crimes?

4. Where do the crimes usually happen?

5. When do the crimes generally happen?

6. What are we doing to make the campus safer?

Listen to six extracts from the conversation and answer questions 1-6.
Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER for each
answer. Audio 7.1

1. What kind of crimes happen on campus?

2. How many crimes are there every year?
3. Who is committing the crimes?
4. Where do the crimes usually happen?
5. When do the crimes generally happen?
6. What are we doing to make the campus safer?
 thefts recently, and last week we also had
1. There were a lot of _______
vandalism .
some __________
300 / three hundred
2. Over the last few years the average is ______________.
local teenagers
3. The police say it’s mainly ______________.
the library
4. There have been incidents in many places, but it’s __________
that is most badly affected.
in the evening when there are fewer people around.
5. It’s usually ____________
6. There are a number of things we are considering in the future, but
installing CCTV
something we’re already doing is __________
You will hear a conversation between two students about
crime on a university campus.
Audio 7.2
1. What type of crime does the campus NOT experience?
2. Which two crimes are increasing at the moment?
3. Which crime is most common?
4. What percentage of incidents were vandalism?
5. What was stolen for the psychology department?
6. Where do most thefts occur?
7. What is the problem in the changing rooms?
8. What does Claude suggest people need to be?
 (really) serious crime here, thankfully, so it’s
1. We don’t get any _____________
still a safe place, really.

2. And some types of crime are currently on the rise – especially

shoplifting, vandalism
____________________

theft
3. But actually, vandalism is still quite rare compared to __________
– that’s what we see most of.
 9% / nine percent
4. And of those, only _______________ were reports of vandalism,
whereas sixty-seven percent were reports of stolen items.

5. We’ve had bikes, keys, briefcases, bags, laptops, mobile phones,

exam papers from one of the
books …. Someone even stole ____________
professors in the psychology department!

6. Well, there are incidents in most areas, but the place which
sports center
seems to be most badly affected is the _____________
7. Lots of things are stolen from the changing rooms. But the
problem is there’s nowhere safe to leave anything because of all
broken lockers
the ______________.

8. I think the main issue is most people do not expect crime on

campus, so they are not very aware of what’s going on around
them. I think we will see a fall in crime if there is better awareness
more careful
and people are ____________.