finished. I’ll spend the first ten years of my working life paying it back.


Male 2: Yeah, but you’re going to be a lawyer, aren’t you? You’ll be able to pay that much back in a couple of months.


Male 1: Oh, very funny. I wish you’d take a conversation seriously for once. I don’t know why they’ve reduced the grants we get. I mean, it’s not like families are all suddenly richer. My parents can’t afford to give me lots of extra spending money. It’s just not fair.


Female 2: No, that’s true, but hey, look at the time. We’re sitting round here chatting and we should be getting ready. It’s Tina’s party tonight, isn’t it?


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053 Workbook Unit 5 Listening


A Listen to a talk about the Romans and how they liked to enjoy their free time. Complete the summary below using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer. Voice: Now, the Romans knew all about work and play, especially play! One of the things we associate with Ancient Rome now is the fact that they loved their free time and that they invented all sorts of ways of filling it. The poet Juvenal was famous for saying that the people of Rome only demanded two things from their rulers – bread and circuses. Both were needed for life – people needed to eat to sustain the body and to visit the circus for pleasure. To start with, the Romans were frequent visitors to


Unit 5 Listening 1


D Listen to the first part of the conversation again and complete the summary. Female 1: Have you read the stories in the newspapers recently about how hard, or should I say how little, students work?


Male 1: Mm, I saw something about it. I didn’t really pay much attention.


Male 2: I haven’t heard anything. What have they been saying?


Female 1: Oh, you know, the usual thing about students going to one or two lectures a week and then spending the rest of the their time sitting around drinking coffee and smoking or going out to wild parties.


Female 2: It makes me really cross when I hear stories like that. They just say these things to sell their rags. I don’t think they even believe any of it’s true themselves.


Male 2: Yeah, but you do sit around drinking coffee all day. You never go to your lectures.


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the theatre and, for them, the theatre encompassed everything from traditional plays to chariot racing. The Romans only staged plays on days that were public holidays – but since there were something like 200 days of public holiday in Ancient Rome, there were plenty of opportunities to stage productions! Plays were noisy and people would shout and join in with the story. As in Greek theatre, the actors often wore masks to show that they were good or bad characters, and the whole atmosphere was more like a pantomime than the civilized notion of theatre we have today.


Unit 5 Listening 2


B Listen to the complete conversation again and complete the summary. [Play


049 again] 052 Unit 5 Consolidation – Speaking


B Listen and check your answers. 1 I get a lot of pleasure from cycling. It helps me think. 2 I probably work harder than I should. I’m on the go all day.


3 I usually go dancing somewhere at the weekend. I really need to let my hair down.


4 To tell you the truth, I like staying in more than going out these days. I’ve never really been a party animal.


5 Frankly, I’m thinking about looking for a new job. I’m overworked and underpaid where I am.


208 Pathway to IELTS 6.0


The amphitheatres were huge and here, of course, the Romans staged their games. I’m sure everyone’s seen the film Gladiator and knows how sensational and sometimes terrifying these games could be. Thousands of spectators came to see specially trained slaves and prisoners – gladiators – fight each other to the death. Sometimes they fought wild animals like lions and bears. At the end of the shows, the crowd decided if the combatants should live or die. Some gladiators became famous and could demand huge sums of money – rather like boxers or footballers today. Chariot racing was another popular form of entertainment and the men who drove the chariots were also celebrities. Societies, of course, had previously hunted for food, but wealthy Romans hunted for sport. They even tried to make hunting more enjoyable by introducing new species of animal, like deer, into the countries they occupied. For total relaxation, the Romans went to bath houses. The ruins of Roman baths can still be found in many parts of the world that were once in the Roman Empire. The Romans would spend all day at the baths, exercising before bathing and then swimming afterwards. The baths were important meeting places and were where wealthy Romans conducted business as they bathed.


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