Exercise 1
1 Listen to the conversation. What are they doing?
2 Listen again and circle the correct answer.
Mandy:
1 dances slowly / well.
2 sings beautifully / badly.
3 speaks Spanish fast / fluently.
4 speaks Portuguese fluently / badly.
5 drives carefully / fast.
Answer & Audioscript
1
She is filling out a form to find an e-pal, and he is helping her.
2
1 well 2 beautifully 3 fluently 4 badly 5 fast
Mandy Okay, I’m filling out this form to find an e-pal. So what should I put?
Sam Well, that’s easy. Just give all the information the form asks for.
Mandy I’ve done most of it … but what should I put for abilities?
Sam Well, you can dance very well …
Mandy Okay … dances well … what else?
Sam Well, your singing’s really good. You sing beautifully …
Mandy I’m not sure that’s important. Well, yes, I do sing pretty well. I guess that’s an ability. Okay … sings beautifully
Sam And you should mention your languages … speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently.
Mandy Well, not quite … speaks Spanish fluently and Portuguese very badly.
Sam How about a funny one … drives fast?
Mandy Oh, very funny, Sam. But yes, okay, drives fast …
Exercise 2
Listen to the conversation and answer these questions.
1 Who is speaking?
2 Who are they talking about?
3 Is the impression of this person positive or negative?
Answer & Audioscript
1 two friends (one is called Courtney)
2 Courtney’s sister Jo’s new boyfriend
3 positive
Kel So what else is going on, Courtney? How’s your sister?
Courtney Which sister? Jo or Helen?
Kel Jo … how’s Jo?
Courtney She’s great … she has a new boyfriend!
Kel Ooh … a new boyfriend! What’s he like?
Courtney Well … he’s really nice … very friendly and talkative. I like him.
Kel And what does he look like?
Courtney He’s tall … he has dark hair and blue eyes … really good-looking.
Kel Mm. Lucky Jo!
Courtney Yeah – he cooks really well too … and plays the guitar fantastically.
Kel Really? He cooks? And plays the guitar? I hate her?
Courtney Me too!
Exercise 3
Listen to descriptions of six people. Circle the adjectives that describe each person.
1 Peter
fun confident adventurous friendly talkative
2 Jane
short tall blond hair blue eyes green eyes
3 Mark
well-built tall muscular short hair brown eyes
4 Chloe
talkative serious confident intelligent easygoing
5 Zoe
friendly nice humorous serious confident
6 Ella
beautiful attractive slim big green eyes big blue eyes
Answer & Audioscript
1 fun, adventurous
2 short, blond hair, blue eyes
3 well-built, muscular, short hair, brown eyes
4 serious, intelligent, easygoing
5 friendly, nice
6 attractive, slim, big blue eyes
1
A What’s Peter like?
B He’s great … he’s really fun and loves doing new things – he’s a really adventurous guy.
2
A What does Jane look like?
B She’s not very tall – she’s pretty short really. She has beautiful blond hair and green eyes – no wait, they’re blue, actually.
3
A What does Mark look like?
B He’s quite well-built – he has really muscular arms and legs, and he has short, black hair and dark brown eyes.
4
A What’s Chloe like?
B Well, she’s studying at college and she can be really serious at times. I mean, she’s awfully intelligent and knows lots of things. When she’s relaxed, she’s very easygoing.
5
A What’s Zoe like?
B Zoe? Well, I don’t think she’s really very confident. But she’s a very friendly person … she has time for everyone and she’s incredibly nice as well.
6
A What does Ella look like?
B She’s not exactly beautiful, but she is attractive. I mean she’s really slim and has these amazing big blue eyes.
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