Students Book Listening Activities

Exploiting the Tapescripts

There are many different ways in which you can use the tapescripts in Real Life Elementary Students Book. They are a rich resource of dialogue and natural language in context. Here we give you extra listening activities to allow you to further exploit the Real Life class CD. The activities here include: true/false, gap filling, putting a conversation in the right order, sentence completion. For some of the activities, there are follow-up activities, for example roleplays and interviews. Before you play the CD: hand the photocopy out to students give them reading time check they understand vocabulary and what they have to do.

Unit 3, CD 1, Track 59
Answers: 1 No, she doesnt. 2 Its old./Its 300 yearsold. 3 Its new. 4 Its on Thursdays. 5 Yes, she does.

Unit 4, CD 2, Track 10 Play the CD, or just dialogue 4. Students listen and put the dialogue in order. Students act out the dialogue.
Answers: 1d 2c 3e 4a 5b 6f

Unit 5, CD 2, Track 35
Answers: 1 bags 2 family 3 twelve 4 sit down 5 meat

Unit 6, CD 2, Track 47 Play the first part of the CD (the presenter).

Answers: 1 movies/ internet 2 in the UK / USA 3 sending or writing / reading emails 4 especially boys / girls 5 London / Los Angeles

Then play the CD: students listen and do the activity check in pairs play the CD again if necessary and check answers with the class. If you feel your students need more listening practice, you can create your own activities using the tapescripts. By blanking out some of the words, you can focus on whatever you feel is useful grammar, vocabulary, question words, etc. Here are a few tips: When you gap texts, only take out six to eight words. Gap words of the same word class, for example nouns or adjectives. For example in CD1, Track 38 you could gap the routine verbs. Remember students will hear the text, not read it. Do the task yourself before you give it to students to check it is not too difficult. If students have not completed the task after the first listening, then play the CD a second time.

Unit 7, CD 3, Track 11
Answers: 1 True 2 False (with his dad) 3 False (on Saturday) 4 True 5 False (sister)

Unit 8, CD 3, Track 26
Answers: 1 electricity 2 the internet 3 the radio 4 the mobile phone 5 the MP3 player 6 the car

Unit 9, CD 3, Track 41
Answers: town centre, main problems, air pollution, traffic-free zones, green spaces, really noisy, quieter buses, cycle lanes, litter bins

Unit 10, CD 4, Track 7 Write these expressions on the board: What about you, Its going to be fantastic, Ive got an idea, Thats a great idea, Cool, Thats a pity. Students listen and write the expressions in the gaps, then act out the dialogue.
Answers: 1 Cool 2 Its going to be fantastic 3 What about you 4 Thats a pity 5 Ive got an idea 6 Thats a great idea

Extra activities answers

Unit 1, CD 1, Track 19 Students listen with Students Books closed. They check in pairs, including the spelling.
Answers: 1 parents 2 sister 3 grandparents 4 aunt 5 uncle 6 cousins

Unit 11, CD 4, Track 21

Answers: 1 painting / didnt win 2 actress / play 3 rock star / electric 4 football / really tired 5 clothes (and things) / Saturdays

Unit 2, CD 1, Track 38
Answers: 1 True 2 False (she has coffee and toast) 3 True 4 True 5 False (Kylie likes TV but they dont like the same programmes)

Unit 12, CD 4, Track 37 Before students do the follow-up activity, elicit the questions on to the board and underline the words they will need to change in their dialogues.
Answers: 1 Tell me 2 What 3 How 4 Is 5 Did 6 What

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