Unit 8- Entertainment
Listening and speaking
WOMAD
Checking your previous lesson
1. Describe your last week
II: Listening
1. Look at the pictures
a. What do you think WOMAD stands for?
World of Music,
M….., A……,
Arts, and
andDance.
D………(LÔ héi ©m nh¹c)
b. 8.4. Listen to the conversation and check your
ideas
II: Listening
2. Listen again and choose the correct answers
Answers
1.
Where was
was the
the festival?
festival?
• Where
Reading
2.
favourite band
band from?
from? Uganda
2. Where
Where was
was Karen’s
Karen’s favourite
3.
kind of
3. Which
Which kind
of food
food doesn’t
doesn’t she
she mention?
mention? Turkish
4.
4. How
How many
many people
people were
were there?
there? Thousands
5.
was the
the weather
at the
5. What
What was
weather like
like at
the festival
festival on
on Saturday
Saturday
morning? Cloudy but warm
morning?
6.
was the
the weather
on Sunday?
6. What
What was
weather like
like on
Sunday? Cold and wet
7.
Where were
were they?
7. Where
they? In a caravan
8.
were they
they there?
there? Friday to Sunday.
8. How
How long
long were
III: speaking
3. Describe Karen and Josh’s weekend.
Example:
Karen and Josh were at a music festival in Reading. …
Conversation pieces: Responding
a. Match the two parts of these expressions from the
conversation.
Oh,
great
Oh, I
it wasn’t
It sounds
see
Oh, that’s
really?
No, I bet
a pity.
b. Check your ideas in tapescript 8.4
III: speaking
4. Talk about your weekend with a partner.
a. 8.4. Listen to the conversation again. What questions
does Ben ask?
Answers:
- Were you and Josh away at the weekend?
- What’s that?
- Where was that?
- Was it good?
- Were there many people there?
- What was the weather like?
- Were you there all weekend?
b. Choose one of the events below. One of you was at the
event. Use the questions in “a” and make the conversation
* A wedding
* a party
* a motor show
* A sport event
* a rock concert
IV: vocabulary file: Weather
a. Use a dictionary. Match the words and the symbols
- What’s the weather like?
- It’s dry.
b. Describe the weather in
your country.
Today
Yesterday
Last week
In May
In December.
e.g. Today is…(day, date
month). The weather is...
VII: Homework
1. Learn by heart new words
2. Do exercises 7, 8, 9 - unit 8 – Workbook