Listening Exercises A2 – First day at school

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a   grammar

b   interview

c   break

d   Learning

e   social

f   timetables

g   canteen

h   conversation

Transcript

So, welcome to English Studies International everyone … welcome to the school. My name is Anna and I’m the Director of Studies.

All right, so the first thing is what’s happening today? So from 9 am until 10.30, you’ll do some tests. You’ll have a written test that tests your grammar and your vocabulary, OK? You will also do a self-assessment. Self-assessment is – you think about your level. You think about your speaking, your writing, your reading, your listening and you decide your level. Now, it doesn’t matter in what order you do the written test and the self-assessment. You can either do the test first or you can do the self-assessment first. You will also have an interview – that’s speaking – a speaking assessment. So you’ll have a written test, a self-assessment and an interview. These three help us decide your level. All right, so that’s from nine and then … umm … after you’ve done the tests, at about half past ten, you can have a break.

After the break at about 10.45, Rebecca will be waiting for you in reception to give you your books.

At eleven o’clock, please come back here to the Learning Centre, and Stewart, the Manager, will give you an introduction to the Learning Centre. At half past eleven you will meet Christine. Christine will talk to you about the social programme at English Studies International. These are all the activities that you can do after school. So that’s until midday. Then at midday, I will come back. You will meet me again and I’ll give you your timetables – your personal timetables that will tell you your class and your teacher and the rooms. During lunch, Berit will be in her office if any of you have accommodation problems. Then, this afternoon you could either listen to talk about London or you could do a conversation class if you know London already. You will start your normal classes tomorrow morning.

a   speak English

b   on time

c   your mobile phone

Transcript

Before we begin the first activity I’d … um … I’d just like to talk about a few classroom rules. You know, to help your learning. These are rules for all my students. OK, so, the first one – the most important rule – when you’re in here, inside the classroom, you must speak English.

You all have lots of different first languages so it makes sense to use English to talk to each other. So we’ve got two Italian speakers here – when you’re in class, you must speak only in English. OK? It’s a really good way of getting more speaking practice.

A second rule is about being on time in the morning. Lessons start at nine o’clock so you must get here on time – before nine is even better – so we can all start studying together. It’s not really very polite to arrive 20 minutes late because it disturbs the people who did come on time. It makes things hard for your classmates. And another thing – mobile phones. You mustn’t use your mobile during the lesson. Again, it’s not very polite. In fact, please turn your phone off completely during the lesson.

That it’s OK to arrive 20 minutes late.

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(Bruno = Spanish; Mei Lin = Chinese)

Mei Lin:     What was your first lesson like?

Bruno:       It was fun – we did a lot of speaking.

Mei Lin:     Just speaking?

Bruno:       More or less – getting to know the other students. And our teacher talked about some rules in the classroom.

Mei Lin:     What kind of rules?

Bruno:       Well, we have to speak English all the time and we have to try to be on time in the morning.

Mei Lin:     That’ll be difficult for you!

Bruno:       Yeah, but it is OK to arrive 20 minutes late.

Mei Lin:     20 minutes?

Bruno:       Yeah. Oh, and we aren’t allowed to have our mobile phones on.