Question 5 – Student A Examiner: Tell me about a turning point in your life? Student: Turning point? Do you mean an event that changed my life – made things different?
Examiner: Yes, exactly. Student: Well, two years I finished a relationship. I was going to get married, but really I was young – only 20. It was a very difficult decision to make, but I’m glad I made it. My life is very different and I feel freer. Question 5 – Student B Examiner: Tell me about a turning point in your life? Student: Turning point is big thing in your life I guess. For me it was get my first job.
Question 6 – Student A Examiner: Do you ever worry about growing old? Student: No, I’m young – too young to worry about being old.
Question 6 – Student B Examiner: Do you ever worry about growing old? Student: Mm, I don’t really worry about it, but I don’t look forward to it. I’m healthy and very active, and I see a lot of old people who don’t have good health. I don’t want to be an old person that can’t do things.
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Extract 3 Boy 1: So, have you thought about this ‘People of the World’ presentation we have to do yet?
Boy 2: Mm, I’ve thought about it. I can’t say I’ve got any real ideas, though. I was thinking about doing something about the Egyptians – you know, I think their lives were very interesting.
Girl: No, you’re supposed to talk about people that live now. As far as I know, Egyptians now live just like we do! It has to be a presentation about people whose lives are totally different from ours now.
Boy 2: Oh, I didn’t realize that. So, something like the lives of Eskimos, you mean?
Boy 1: Or Aborigines, maybe. Girl: Well, maybe …, but neither of those is very imaginative, is it? I’m not sure there are many Eskimos now, anyway.
Boy 2: Oh right – so what are you going to talk about then? Girl: Well, I was thinking about Bedouins in the Sahara Desert. I can show some really good …
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B Listen to four extracts and match them with the pictures. Write the number of the extract in the box. Extract 1 Woman 1: So, does it really change your life as much as everybody warns you?
Woman 2: Nobody can warn you – it turns your life upside down! You go from thinking about and looking after yourself, to thinking permanently about and looking after another little person. Life will never be the same again.
Woman 1: Oh dear. Don’t you get any time to yourself? Woman 2: Well, yes – at about 11 o’clock after the last feed – but then you’re too tired to do anything.
Woman 1: Mm – but once they’re at school it must get easier, surely.
Woman 2: Yes, I’m sure it does, but that seems a long way off at the moment.
Extract 2 Voice: … it’s an activity that unites the mind, body and spirit. The mind and the body become one and that’s therapeutic. People become aware of body posture, alignment and how they move. The body becomes more flexible and it’s possible to maintain relaxation even in a stressful atmosphere. People have more energy and are happier all-round with life.
Extract 4 Male voice: Okinawa is something of a phenomenon. It has a population of around a million people, but 900 of those are centenarians – that means they are 100 years old or more. That is four times the number of centenarians in most other parts of the world. What is perhaps even more remarkable is that this seems to be the only place in the world where both men and women are equally likely to reach a hundred. Now, much of this is to do with Japanese lifestyle, but there’s much more to it …
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Unit 1 Listening 1
F Listen to the four extracts and match them with the images in Exercise E. Extract 1 Voice: … generally, it’s agreed that ultimately there are four main areas of life in which people look to find fulfilment. What is difficult – some might say impossible – is to find fulfilment in all of those areas at the same time. Now, let’s start by …
Extract 2 Tutor: David, how’s the project going? I … I sort of got the impression you weren’t making much progress.
Student: Oh … it’s fine, really. I was a bit stuck, but now I know which writer I want to write about, it’s all going quite well.
Tutor: Oh, good. So, which writer have you chosen after all?
Student: Noel Coward. I’m going to write my project on Noel Coward.
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