Avanzado 1 - Art audio

Here's the track for you to listen to (from Ready for CAE).

Click on comments for the answers.

Avanzado 1 - Nomophobia

Do you remember the name given to addiction to mobile phones? Here's a video from

© Skynews and the transcript.

 

Avanzado 1- Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep talks about her role in The Iron Lady here. If you're in the Tuesday-Thursday group, answer the questions on your worksheet. You'll be able to check if you're right - clicking on 'comments' - in a couple of days.

Avanzado 1 - Golden Globes

Here's a summary of the awards. You've also got the transcript and the vocabulary.

...and Jodie Foster's much-praised acceptance speech with some parts of the transcript.

Remember it's alwasys a good idea to listen first without reading the words!

Avanzado 1 - Interview with Quentin Tarantino

Here's an interview with Quentin Tarantino on British Channel 4. The interesting bit starts at minute 4.
What's your view on the subject? Is Tarantino right in getting angry? Try watching it first without reading the transcript.

Avanzado 1 - Boomerang children

Listen to a mother and a son talking about living together after he's finished university (from The Listening Project BBC Radio 4).

He's not a conventional young man, is he? In what ways? Write a comment.

Avanzado 1 - interview with George Clooney

 

adapted from www.npr.org

 

Here's the interview with George Clooney if you want to listen to it again and the transcript.

 





 

Avanzado 1 -Listening on money matters

This listening exercise is good practice and also teaches you some more expressions related to money such as:
• strapped for cash (idiom): have no money available

• pinch pennies (idiom): be careful with money

• in the hole (idiom): in debt

• pay through the nose (idiom): pay an excessive amount of money

• blow (verb): spend thoughtlessly or wastefully; throw away

Click here to do the activity. You can also read the transcript afterwards.

Avanzado 1 - Julian Treasure

Here's a talk by Julian Treasure, the acoustician we listened to in class.

Avanzado 1 - Nick Clegg on BBC

Watch this interview with Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister of Britain, in which he gives his opinion about Britain’s veto to the new EU treaty.

Then, fill in the gaps with an appropriate word or phrase. You can check your answers in the comments. The whole interview lasts about 14 minutes but the actual questions refer to minutes 3.00 to 10:00.


David Cameron couldn’t come back from the European summit ___________(1).
Some parts of the Conservative Party show ________ (2) to all things European.
In Clegg’s opinion, those who think Britain’s refusal to signing the EU treaty is a triumph are _____________ (3).
Things now depend on how Britain ________________(4).
Clegg’s first public comment was that he _______________(5 ) of the summit.
It’s not good for Britain ____________ (6) to be in a position of one versus twenty six.
Britain still has _________________________ (7) of Europe.

Leonard Cohen's acceptance speech

Listen to the speech given by Leonard Cohen at the Principe de Asturias awards ceremony and answer the questions below. You can check you answers in the comments section.

1. Leonard Cohen is not used to ____________________without an orchestra.

2. Poetry is a territory that nobody can ________________ or ________________.

3. His Spanish guitar stills smells the same as _____________________.

4. Federico García Lorca gave him permission to ____________________.

5. He communicated with the young Spanish man in ___________________.

6. The young man agreed to ____________________.

7. Many flamenco songs are based on a _________________.

8. On the fourth day the young man didn’t come. Cohen found out that he ________.

9. Cohen felt __________________.

10. The basis of his music has been __________________.

Avanzado 1 - sisters

Hi there!

We've been talking about family birth order, being an only child and friendship. Here's an interesting report on the relationship between sisters. Watch the video and write a comment answering these questions:

1. Do you think sisters always move between closeness and competition?
2. The report films the reconciliation between sisters Sandra and Diana. Do you think it will last?
3. Is the relationship between brothers different?

alligators - living abroad

You may want to hear this 6 minute radio programme on the subject of emigrating. Living abroad needn't be as tough as the picture suggests! (I guess it illustrates the meaning of insurmountable which came up the other day)

I'm still waiting for your answers to the post below, by the way...

alligators - health online

This didn't come up in class today but it's quite interesting. Read and listen to this piece of news and give it a thought. Do you think this tool may be useful? Can you think of any drawbacks?

Alligators - big adventures

Click here and listen to some people talking about challenges they'd like to face. If you want to, you can also read the transcript. Which of these challenges appeals to you?

You may be pursuing a dream yourself. Why don't you post a comment describing it?