Part 1 ENGLISH LISTENING MATERIALS Topic Type/Title Exercise : Song : Pop/ I dont wanna talk about it (Rod Stewart)

: 1. Finding out the missing verbs and nouns 2. Understanding the topic of the song

A sample of exercises: Listen to the song and complete the lyrics! I can ___1___ by your ___2___ that you've probably been crying forever And the stars in the sky don't ___3___ nothing to you they're a mirror I don't wanna talk about it How you ___4___ my heart If I stay here just a little bit longer If I ___5___ here won't you ___6___ to my heart Oh oh my heart If I ___7___ all alone will the shadows hide the colours of my ___8___ blue for tears, black for the ___9___ fears the stars in the ___10___ don't mean nothing to you they're a mirror ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Part 2 ENGLISH LISTENING MATERIALS

Topic Type Exercise

: Confirming a hotel booking : Dialogues / Conversation : 1. Completing sentences with word or phrase 2. Finding out the meaning of certain words/phrases in Indonesian 3. Finding out the main topic 4. Answering and finding specific information related with the dialogues

A sample of exercises: Fill in the blanks with the correct word or phrase based on the CD you have heard ! Situation : a telephone conversation between a hotel receptionist and a person trying to make a booking. The line is bad but the receptionist has the telephone skills to deal with this problem. Hello and welcome to this Learn English professional recording, brought to you by the British Council. To find out more and to access language activities and audio scripts, visit our Learn English website at www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish CONFIRMING A HOTEL BOOKING Receptionist : ___1___ , Orion Hotel, how may I help you? Customer : Im ringing to confirm a booking I made a week ago. I was expecting an email but I havent received anything. Receptionist : ___2___ the line is rather bad, would you mind repeating that, please? Customer : Yes, I made a reservation on your website under the name of Coutts. George Coutts. Receptionist : Could you spell your surname for me, ___3___? Customer : Yes, thats C-O-U-T-T-S Receptionist : And when was the reservation for? Customer : July 23rd to the 29th Receptionist : Sorry, did you say the ___4___? Customer : No, the 23rd Receptionist : Let me just check if we have your details on the system. Ah yes, here we are. Customer : I put down one double and one single room, but I wonder if I could change that. Receptionist : Im terribly sorry I didnt quite catch that. ___5___ speaking up a little? Customer : Yes, I wanted to change the number of rooms. Is it possible to have two doubles instead of a single and a double?

Receptionist : Lets seeoh hold on a moment. Ive got someone on the other line. (Speaks to other customer) yeah, yeahwould you mind if I rang you back. Im just dealing with a reservation. ___6___. Customer : Sorry? Receptionist : Yes, sorry about that Mr. Coutts, Im just getting your booking details up now. Yes, we do have another double available for those nights. Was there anything else? Customer : Well, I wanted to know if you did vegetarian food for the evening meal. It

wasnt clear from the website. Receptionist : Yes, we do, but by prior arrangement. But now youve requested it, Ill put that down in the booking. ___7___ people was that for? Customer : Just myself Receptionist : ___8___. Anything else? Customer : Well, weve got a very early return flight on the 30th, so well need an alarm call at about 5.30, I should think.

Receptionist : No problem sir, Ill arrange that now. Was that all? Customer : ___9___. Receptionist : So youd like two double rooms for the nights of 23 rd to the 29th July inclusive, vegetarian provision for one and an early morning call on your departure. Is that correct? Customer : Thats right Receptionist : If we ___10___ with anything else, just give us a ring. We look forward to seeing you in July.

Part 3 ENGLISH LISTENING MATERIALS

Topic Type Exercise

: Studying in the United Kingdom (UK) : Story / Narrative text : 1. Understanding the listening audio about Studying in the UK 2. Finding out specific information related with the text

Sample of exercise: Listen to the audio carefully and then answer the following questions! 1. 2. 3. 4. Where is Lin from? What does Lin think about studying in the United Kingdom? Where is Tomas from? Is the following statement true or false? Syed came from Manchester. (T/F) 5. Is the following statement true or false? Syed didnt like the way of teaching on the course. (T/F)

Part 4 ENGLISH LISTENING MATERIALS

Topic Type Exercise

: Remembering Snow : Story / Poetry : 1. Finding out specific information related with the text 2. Completing the missing words/phrases

Samples of exercise: Task 1 (dont give the script to the students) Listen to the story carefully and then answer the following questions! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. What do you think about snow? What does the speaker think about good poetry? Where was Brian Patten born? When was Brian Patten born? Brian Patten has written lots of poems both for .. and for .. Source: http://www.listen-to-english.com/index.php?id=502

Task 2 Listen to the story carefully and complete the following poem! It is very cold here in England, and there is lots of snow on the ground. What do you think about snow? Yes, snow can be cold and wet and miserable. But it can also change familiar things our houses and gardens, our streets and our cities into something strange and new and beautiful. Good poetry is like snow it too can change familiar things into something strange and new and beautiful. So I looked for a poem about snow to read you, and I have found one by a poet called Brian Patten. Brian Patten was born in Liverpool in 1946, which means that he is nearly as old as I am! In the 1960s, he was one of a group of young poets from Liverpool whose poems became very popular and widely read. It is easy to understand why the poems are direct, simple and often funny. Brian Patten is today one of Britains leading poets, and he has written lots of poems both for adults and for children. There are links to some of his poems, and to more information, on the website. I sent him an e-mail, to say that I would like to use this poem in a podcast, and he has kindly agreed that I can. So here it is, Remembering Snow.

I did not (1) last night. The falling snow was beautiful and white. I dressed, sneaked down the stairs And opened wide the (2) I had not seen such snow before. Our grubby little street had gone. The world was brand-new, and (3) There was a pureness in the air. I felt such peace. Watching every flake I felt more and more awake. I thought I had learned all there was to know About the trillion million different kinds Of swirling frosty flakes of snow. That was not so. I did not (4) how vividly it lit The world with such a peaceful glow. Upstairs my mother slept. I could not drag myself away from that sight To call her down and have her share The mute miracle of the snow. It seemed to fall for me alone. (5) our grubby little street had grown! Good bye!

Part 5 ENGLISH LISTENING MATERIALS The Sick Child Kind : Poem, 1. Exercise:

Source : www.britishcouncil.org

Decide if each of the following 8 statements about the poem is True or False: 1. The child doesn't know where s/he is. 2. 3. 4. 5. The child thinks the room seems bigger than usual. There is a storm that night. All the children in the town are awake. The child knows what s/he is afraid of.

6. The child's mother is very upset. 7. The mother believes the child will sleep during the day. 8. The mother thinks the child will have nightmares.

Part 6 ENGLISH LISTENING Topic : Astronomy Title : New Stars Discovered in the Sky Genre : Report/News Source : www.bbclearningenglish.com Re-upload by www.haarrr.wordpress.com; for Indonesian students of English (SMP/SMA)

Sample of Exercise: Listen to the audio and fill in the blanks with words/phrases that youve heard! Words in the News from bbclearningenglish.com (1) have assumed that the composition of all galaxies is the same as our own. But using a new, more powerful instrument on the Keck telescope in Hawaii, researchers have discovered that older galaxies contain twenty times more small dim stars, called red dwarves, than younger (2) such as our own. Doctor Marek Kukula of the Royal Greenwich Observatory describes what the view from a (3) in an older galaxy might be like. "When one of these galaxies that we now know (4) lots and lots of small red stars, it may well be true that the night sky is dotted with these small, faint (5) glowing like embers and that might produce a very pretty effect." (6) Professor Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University, the discovery also increases the estimate of the number of planets in the (7), and therefore makes it even more likely that there's life somewhere else in the cosmos. "There's been particular attention (8) to these red dwarf stars. In one galaxy there's about a trillion of these stars and there's hundreds of billions of these galaxies. Even if the planet is quite close to the star, you could have liquid water on the planet, (9) is not as bright as the sun and so a planet can be a lot closer and still be kind of balmy, rather than scorching hot."

The discovery that (10) stars means that our universe is a much brighter, more crowded place than we previously thought. Pallab Ghosh, BBC News

Part 7 A conversation about a cultural heritage site. Optional exercise Listen to the conversation and decide if these statements are T (true) or F (false). 1. The archaeological excavation was in Western Europe. 2. Lynn was working there for more than a month. 3. A university paid for her to go there. 4. She felt positive about the work experience. 5. She found a small statue. 6. The excavation will fundamentally change the area. (Answers below) Part 8 Listen to different people commenting on James Lovelock's current views on nuclear energy. Optional exercise (The answers are at the bottom of the page). Listen and decide who makes these points: Michael, Teresa, Kevin, Raymond, Kerry. Which person thinks... 1. that a lot of scientists dont agree with Lovelock? 2. that Lovelock has made a turnaround? 3. that Lovelock now agrees with the government? 4. that Lovelocks ideas are not really that important? 5. that nuclear power is not safe? 6. that people are impatient? Part 9 EFFECTIVE WEBSITES Listen to a dialogue between Reeta, an expert on search engine optimisation, and her client. Optional exercise Listen and match the words and definitions. 1 content 2 keyword 3 search engine optimisation (SEO) 4 spider 5 title tag a A program that searches the internet for web pages and sends them to a search

engine. b A way of ensuring search engines can find a website. c A word someone types into a search engine. d The code that creates the words in the top bar of the browser. Part 10 Listen and fill in the spaces. New ageism laws let older bankers sue for millions New employment __________ have been introduced in the European Union that will help _______________ older workers. The Employment Equality Age Regulations became law on October 1 as part of an EU-wide initiative to stop __________ in the workplace. Legislators decided discrimination against older workers and older job seekers was on a par with _________________ and that against ethnic minorities. The new laws mean staff can claim significant levels of _________________ employers found guilty of firing staff for being too old. Sam Mercer, chief executive of the Employers Forum on Age told The Guardian newspaper: "Ageism is still seen as not that bad like speeding. While racism and sexism are viewed like drunk driving - totally unacceptable." However, not everyone ______________ the new laws. The Guardian reports a recent study which revealed 70% of 16-24-year-olds believed older workers should not receive higher pay because of ___________ or experience. Those likely to most _____________ the new laws are middle-aged bankers, who are often let go by their employers for being less dynamic than their _____________ more ambitious counterparts. In effect, this means the law will give greater protection to white middle-aged men - called "pale, _____________" by human resource departments. The __________ reports that one bank allowed staff to call traders in their 40s "_________" and their desks as "Jurassic Park", according to a leading employment law solicitor. Before the new law was passed, these workers had a very hard time reconstructing their lives after being wrongly fired by companies. _____________ unfair dismissal claims was capped at around $110,000, which is a fraction of the income for many bankers in their 40s. This often meant financial ruin for many middle-aged bankers. The new laws change that. Companies now need to be extremely careful when _________ older workers, or risk multi-million-dollar payouts to ___________ staff.

Part 11 MARKETING AUDIOSCRIPT Listen to a university lecturer introduce his course on Marketing. Optional activity: While you are listening, try to decide whether these sentences are true or false. Sentence True or false? 1. There will be three marketing lectures a week until the end of term. 2. Todays lecture looks at pricing. 3. Marketing is about advertising. 4. A customer focused organisation may not have a marketing department. 5. In a customer focused organisation only marketing staff think about customers. 6. Employees need to work as a team to deliver customer satisfaction. 7. Everyone needs to know how satisfied customers are.

Part 12 LISTENING Listen and fill in the spaces. Time Warner marketing stunt creates terror A Time Warner Inc. marketing campaign ___________________ on Thursday when security officials decided the city was under attack from terrorists. The company that owns CNN, Time magazine and Cartoon Network inadvertently created _______________ in Boston and brought the city to a standstill. The companys marketing department _______________, black blinking electronic devices in ten different US cities to promote a new cartoon show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Each was the size of a cereal box, although Turner ________________ as billboards. Pictures of the flashing digital signs showed protruding wires, hence the belief that they were bombs. Bostons city officials were quick to react in the interests of public safety and brought out its bomb force in force and shut down _____________________ rivers. Turners _____________ took full responsibility for the campaign, part of a tactic a spokesperson called guerilla marketing - an alternative to _________________________ that are high-impact but also very eye-level with the consumer, _______________ and in-the-

streets.'' An apologetic company spokeswoman Shirley Powell said: We approved it. We're taking full responsibility. We were ________________ a TV show. She was shocked by the reaction in Boston, adding: If we had ever perceived this to be something threatening safety, we would ____________________ with it." Boston was the only city that mistook the signs for being bombs, perhaps being sensitive to the fact that it was the base for the 9/11 bombers. The boxes caused _____________ elsewhere. Look-alike devices were soon selling for ______________ There is market for everything, Powell said.

Part 13 LISTENING Listen and fill in the spaces. Internet chaos in Asia The Internet in Asia ____________ experiencing problems following the earthquake off southern Taiwan last week. Although the quake caused ____________ to buildings and roads, it broke ____________ undersea Internet cables. As a result, millions of people in the Asia-Pacific region could not use the Internet. The damaged cables linked countries in North and Southeast Asia ____________, and to North America and Australia. The powerful magnitude 6.7 quake showed how easily Mother Nature can ____________ international communication. Banking services across the region ____________ and millions of people could not even use an ATM to withdraw cash. Financial markets escaped serious damage as many traders were on holidays ____________ New Year. Several ships are now ____________ to repair the cables. One damaged cable is the North Asian Loop a 38,000-kilometre link that stretches from South Korea around India to Holland. Repairing it could be a very difficult job because ____________ cables may be buried or washed away. Earthquakes ____________ lot of damage on the seabed. They can cause things

to move long distances under the sea. Taiwanese officials have warned it could take ____________ even a week to fix the problems. This means Internet access across most of Asia will not ____________ for a week or so. The cost of repairs for Asian telecommunication companies could be half a billion dollars. They are using more expensive satellite technology to make ____________ people as possible are connected. Part 14

LISTENING Listen and fill in the spaces. World Bank boss sorry for payout to girlfriend World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz is ____________________ following his mistake in giving a huge pay rise to a close female friend. There ____________________ resignation following allegations of favouritism and corruption. Although he has apologised for making the "mistake", ____________________. The former deputy US defence secretary refused to speculate on rumours that he might have to resign. The World Bank's board of governors met to discuss the scandal and Wolfowitz said he would accept ____________________. The sorry issue arose after Britains Financial Times newspaper published a report stating Wolfowitz personally ordered promotions ____________________ his partner, Shaha Riza, who ended up with a $200,000 salary - more than Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state. Ms Riza was on the World Banks payroll when Wolfowitz became head in 2005. ____________________ regulations, she was transferred to the US State Department ____________________ interest for Wolfowitz. However, in the period before her transfer took effect, Wolfowitz ordered and rubber-stamped the documentation necessary ____________________ World Bank earner. In his apology, he said: "I take full responsibility." He acknowledged that the situation surrounding Riza "had the potential to harm the World Bank. He also stressed that he ____________________ do with her employment terms. He said

his romantic involvement with Ms Riza resulted in a "____________________ when he was new to the job. Nevertheless, it seems somewhat ridiculous that such an experienced and intelligent man could make such a serious blunder.