Unit 2 – Peter
Part 1: Pre-Listening Comprehension
Exercise 1: Two typical features of a London accent
Track 19
Listen and put a line through the letters ‘h’ and ‘d’ where Peter
doesn’t pronounce the initial h- of some words and where he
doesn’t pronounce the -d of and, as in this example:
This is my house and this is my garden.
1. ‘read my post and then start whatever’s at
hand for the day’
2. ‘Then I go and have a shower or a bath…’
3. ‘I have er, a workshop’
Exercise 2: Anticipating the next word.
Tracks 20 to 24 (See the Teacher’s Book)
Part 2: Listening Comprehension
Exercise 3: Listening Comprehension – Version A Part 1
Track 25 Tick the correct box.
1. Peter gets up at 6.45am 7.45am 8.45am.
2. He has
a shower a bath a wash.
3. He leaves home at 7.45am 8am 8.15am.
4. He to work.
walks cycles drives
5. He arrives at work at about 8.30am 8.45am 9am.
6. As soon as he gets to work he usually switches on
the lights the kettle his computer.
7. He has for lunch.
30 minutes 45 minutes an hour
8. He usually has lunch between
12 and 1pm 12 and 2pm 1 and 2pm.
Exercise 3: Listening Comprehension – Version A Part 2
Track 26
Tick the correct box.
1. Peter usually leaves work between
4.30 and 5pm 5 and 5.30pm 5.30 and 6pm.
2. When he gets home he normally has
a cup of tea a can of beer a cup of coffee.
3. He talks to his children his wife his girlfriend.
4. He has dinner between
6 and 6.30pm 6.30 and 7pm 7 and 7.30pm.
5. After dinner he
reads a book watches television listens to music.
6. He goes to bed between
10 and 10.30pm 11 and 11.30pm 11.30 and midnight.
Exercise 3: Listening Comprehension – Version B Part 1
Track 25
Answer the questions.
1. What time does Peter get up?
2. What does he drink before he goes to work?
3. What time does he leave home?
4. How does he get to work?
5. What time does he arrive at work?
6. What does he do before he switches on his computer?
7. How long is his lunch break?
Exercise 3: Listening Comprehension – Version B Part 2
Track 26
Correct the mistake in each sentence.
1. Peter normally leaves work by 5pm at the latest.
2. He gets home at around 6pm.
3. He normally has a beer when he gets home.
4. He also has a chat with his mother.
5. He usually has dinner between 7.30 and 8pm.
6. After dinner he listens to the radio for an hour or so.
7. He usually goes to bed between 10.30 and 11pm.
Part 4: Further Listening Practice
Exercise 4: ‘er’ for pauses
Track 27 Mark where Peter uses er for pauses:
1. ‘I normally get up about quarter, quarter to
seven.’
2. ‘I’m normally ready to leave home about
seven forty-five.’
3. ‘I do have a lunch break but it’s half an hour’
4. ‘I have a workshop’
Exercise 5: Hearing the sounds of English 1
Repeat these minimal pairs after your teacher:
wash/watch back/pack
work/walk bath/path
hungry/angry
Exercise 6: Discriminating between minimal pairs
of sounds 1
Underline the words your teacher says in these sentences:
1. You must wash/watch this.
2. This work/walk is very hard.
3. I am very angry/hungry.
4. This is the back/pack.
5. What a long bath/path!
Exercise 7: Weak forms – prepositions
Track 28
Listen to Peter and complete the sentences with prepositions
from the box:
for from of to
1. ‘quarter __________ seven’
2. ‘a cup __________ tea’
3. ‘from the time I get hungry __________ the
time I’m not’
4. ‘Watch telly __________ an hour or so…’
5. ‘I have er, a workshop that I disappear to
__________ time __________ time.’
Exercise 8: Contractions
Track 29
Listen to Peter and complete the phrases below with the
appropriate contracted form of I am, it is and that is.
1. ‘__________ normally ready to leave home
about er, seven forty-five.’
2. ‘…and it varies. __________ not at a regular
time.’
3. ‘from the time I get hungry to the time
__________ not’
4. ‘until I feel __________ time to come back’
5. ‘__________ the average.’
Exercise 9: Hearing the sounds of English 2
Repeat these minimal pairs after your teacher:
leave/leaf choose/shoes
hand/and feel/file
Exercise 10 Discriminating between minimal pairs of
sounds 2
Listen to your teacher read out these words and tick the
correct boxes:
1 1 2 3 4 5
leave
leaf
2 1 2 3 4 5
hand
and
3 1 2 3 4 5
choose
shoes
4 1 2 3 4 5
feel
file
Part 5: Language Development Practice
Exercise 11: Extension exercise
Use the words in the box to complete the sentences. You
heard all these words in Peter’s interview. Some of the words
are used twice.
approximately chat choose
don’t hungry ready switch
1. I’m really__________. Can I have a sandwich, please?
2. It’s very dark in here. Can you _________ on the light?
3. Shall we have tea or coffee? You__________.
4. I usually phone my mother for a ______ every Thursday.
5. Are you _________ to leave? Omar’s waiting in the car.
6. I have lunch at __________ 1 o’clock.
7. We __________ normally go out in the evenings.
8. I need you to help me __________ what to wear for my
interview on Friday.
9. If you’re __________ make yourself some toast.
10 Our plane leaves at 10, so we must be __________ to
leave here at six o’clock.
11 Can you __________ on the television?
12 I __________ like dogs, but I love cats.
Part 6: Transcript
Track 30
This is your chance to ask your teacher for the meanings of
words you don’t know.
I: Interviewer
P: Peter
I: Can you tell me about a typical day?
P: Yes. I, I normally get up about er, quarter, quarter to
seven. Um, wash. Don’t shower or bath in the morning.
Um, I wash. I then… Normally I ‘ave, have a cup of tea
and something to eat, some… a light breakfast. I’m
normally ready to leave home about er, seven forty-five.
Leave home, drive to Stevenage in Hertfordshire and
arrive at work approximately nine, nine o’clock. Um, well,
I’ll normally make a cup of tea, locate myself at my desk,
and switch on the computer, look at e-mails, read my post
and then start whatever’s at hand for the day.
I: Do you get a lunch break?
P: Not off… well, yes, I do have a lunch break, but it’s er,
half an hour and it varies. It’s not at a regular time. It
could be anything from well, from the time I get hungry
to the time I’m not.
I: OK.
P: Something between 12 and two, normally.
I: Um, do you have to take your lunch between those hours?
P: No, no, no, I can choose. I’m very flexible.
I: What time do you leave work?
P: I normally leave work between five and five-thirty. It
depends on the workload of the day. But normally it’ll be,
I would leave by five-fifteen, five-twenty. And then back
in the car, back down the motorway, back to
Walthamstow for about six-thirty.
I: And do you have dinner as soon as you get home?
P: Not immediately. I usually have a cup of tea, a chat with
the wife, and then I normally eat around about seven
o’clock, seven-thirty.
I: And what do you do then? Telly?
P: Watch telly for an hour or so. Then I go and have a
shower or a bath and watch some more telly! Not every
night, though. Er, sometimes I do other things.
I: Like what?
P: Well, I have other interests. I have er, a workshop that
I disappear to from time to time, take up some strange
habits and hobbies down there um, until I feel it’s time to
come back, ready for bed.
I: Mmm, hmm. What time do you go to bed?
P: Normally 12 o’clock, between half-eleven and 12 o’clock.
It does depend, though. That’s the average.