Read the following questions and think how you would answer them.
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1. If you could invite anyone you wanted to a
dinner party (living or dead).
Who would you invite? 2. If your house caught fire and you could save one thing, what would it be? 3. What’s the biggest problem facing you at the moment? |
Now listen to a man and a woman answering these questions and chose the most
suitable answer from the drop-down menu.
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If you could invite anyone you wanted to a dinner party (living or dead). Who would you invite? |
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a) The woman would like to have a
dinner party
b) The man would like to have a dinner party |
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If your house caught fire and you could save one thing, what would it be? |
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a) The woman would save
b) The man would save |
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What’s the biggest problem facing you at the moment? |
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The woman thinks that |
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Now listen and complete the transcriptions.
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- Erm, my perfect dinner party..
eermm... from famous people
John Lennon..er..just
to have a chat with him and..and really see what he was like.
Erm.. I think you’d… I’d.. erm.. like to invite someone that
was funny, so Billy
Connolly, because I think he’d be really good..erm…I don’t
know so much about now, maybe years ago when he was drinking
a lot and taking loads of drugs that would have been funnier.
Erm.. I suppose if I look back I’ve probably had some really
good dinner parties in England, and a couple of my really
good friends unfortunately have passed away. So,
to get sort of like
the six of us back together again. Erm, but I think with
famous people, possibly there’s too many even to think about.
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Well, I can think of one,
; Jack the Ripper.
…and everybody else
in the world must want to know that; who he was, why he did
it. ‘Cos I’ve got feelings on that, I think it was a cover
up for royalty. I think he impregnated a prostitute – Erm..
Edward, Edward the seventh I think it was – and I think they
were killed because of that. Not because it could have been
each one of them. It was…we’re doing this because one of
them, one of them was impregnated. That’s what…that’s what I
think for that. |
Check your answers with the complete transcription.
Notice how often would is used for hypothesizing:
- I suppose it would have to be John Lennon
- I think that would probably be Billy Connolly
- That would be really nice
- I know one I would have
- I would dearly love to
- I think he’d be really funny
- I’d want to know what happened
- I would like to invite
Use the expressions to say who you would like to invite to your dinner party
and say why.
Now listen to the answer to the second question again and complete the
transcription.
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- Erm… if my house caught fire I
think the thing.. the thing that I’d most
save are.. erm..
photos. Erm… I think most other things you can replace;
televisions, anything like that, music, erm.. but photos are
very dear to me so I think that’s what I would save
. - Yeah, I don’t… I don’t think of photos in that way. I don’t need reminding. I’ve.. he.. he.. this is sound really strange, I know,… it would be my mp3 player… it’d be my mp3 player. since I’ve had it It really has! It has, I think to myself I’ve have that because I’ve go out for my walk tomorrow. And that’s what I’d say, my mp3 player. |
Check your answers with the complete transcription.
Now listen to the answer to the third question again and complete the
transcription.
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- Erm… well… I think a little
bit of a problem at the moment is.. erm.. the recession. Erm..
although, , it
really hasn’t affected us as badly as it has a lot of people.
I mean.. erm.. there’s a lot of people
, and really
,. So, erm.. but it
has affected us in a way with..erm..the Euro, and.. and
we’ve got sort of like less money coming in. Erm… but then,
we’re a lot better than an awful lot of other people. - The exchange rate’s affected you because you get money transferred over from the UK to Spain? - That’s right. Er.. Terry’s pensions come in.. erm.. but, as I say.. er.. that’s… you.. we just , . Everything’s still okay so there’s an awful lot more people suffering more than we are.. erm.. , - Well.. er… - That’s not a problem, that’s more , ….in a way…. - Yeah, exactly, yeah… I.. I still look at it as a problem. It.. it’s something that affects you. Erm…I don’t really know, it’s really…. - Well, if you think about it logically then we’re very very lucky if we can’t think of anything that’s a ,. Because.. erm.. what a lot of people are , … - A lot of people have got continuing problems…. - That’s right, so we’re very very lucky. - Yeah. |
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