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These are the worksheets. The mp3 listening files have to be downloaded from the Listening Bank where you will also find the transcripts.
Title: Interview with an Actress
Target Language: Talking about positive/negative aspects of jobs, multiple choice listening exercise.
Description: Recording of radio programme where theatre actress talks about her recent career. Vocabulary exercise which focuses on understanding the meaning with little context or clues.
Duration: 45 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4L1 / July 2005
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Title: The SETI Interview
Target Language: Talking about UFO's/The Unexplained.
Description: A radio program in which a scientist talks about UFO's/the search for extra-terrestrial life. Speaking before and after about this and other unusual phenomena.
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4L2 / August 2005
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Title: The Pet Caterer
Target Language: Unusual jobs, looking after animals.
Description: A lesson based around an interview on a radio program about Dan Smith's unusual job. What are the benefits or downsides of doing an unusual job?
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4L3 / February 2007
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Title: A Survival Story
Target Language: Making decisions/prioritizing choices. Listening to radio program.
Description: Listening based around radio program and story of woman's survival at sea. Pre- and post-listening speaking activities based around "what if?" questions.
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4L4 / July 2005
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Title: Online Perils
Target Language: Using the internet, spam/viruses, etc. Listening to a radio program.
Description: The listening here is an radio interview based around the "dark" side of the web: phishing, spam and viruses. Pre-listening vocabulary exercise looks at some internet terminology. Free speaking activity to finish the lesson with.
Duration: 60-70 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4L5 / August 2006
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Title: Read All About It
Target Language: Listening to conversation about local newspapers, why people buy local newspapers.
Description: The subject of this lesson is local newspapers. Students listen to two friends having a discussion about the merits of the local press. Students can then express their own opinions on the subject. Optional "editor" role play possible too.
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4L7 / June 2006
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Title: Anger Behind The Wheel
Target Language: What causes road rage and what possible solutions there are to reduce it.
Description: The listening in this lesson is a talk on the radio about road rage. There are two vocabulary exercises, looking both at single words and idioms. There is a role play at the end of the lesson.
Duration: 60-70 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4L8 / August 2006
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Title: Film Fanatics
Target Language: Going to the cinema, movie critics.
Description: The theme of this lesson is the world of cinema and, in particular, the movie critic. Do we believe and follow their recommendations? Should we? This is a long and quite tough listening and there's also quite a lot of vocabulary work, as part of the listening exercises too.
Duration: 70 minutes.
Lesson Plan / Date: 4L9 / September 2006
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