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English Listening Exercises for B2 – Sibling rivalry

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1. Read the Listening Strategy. Listen to a student talking about his sister. Answer the questions.

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  • 1)
    What was Ella’s behaviour like?
  • 2)
    What kind of child was the speaker?
  • 3)
    What did people use to say to the speaker?
  • 4)
    How did the speaker feel about his sister when they were young?
  • 5)
    When did their relationship improve?

2. Match the features of fast speech (a-c) with examples 1-3.

  • a)
    Tell everybody sounds like Tell leverybody.
  • b)
    That’s my sounds like Thas my
  • c)
    So early sounds like so wearly; my uncle sounds like my yuncle
  • 1)
    Consonants are sometimes inserted between two vowel sounds.
  • 2)
    Consonant sounds at the end of words run into a following vowel sound.
  • 3)
    Sounds, usually consonants, sometimes disappear.

3. Listen to the sentences from the text. Write down one or two features of fast speech that you hear in each.

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  • 1)
    My sister was born with big, blue eyes
  • 2)
    She looked like an angel.
  • 3)
    This was not good news for me.
  • 4)
    Sometimes I pushed her away.
  • 5)
    Later, when I got better at school
  • 6)
    Now I think she’s great too.

4. Listen again and repeat. Try to copy the pronunciation.

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5. Listen to two dialogues and a monologue. Choose the correct answer (a-c).

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  • 1)
    How does the first dialogue end?
  • a)
    The speakers refuse to listen to each other’s point of view.
  • b)
    The speakers eventually come to an acknowledgment of each other’s viewpoints.
  • c)
    The speakers decide that the disagreement can’t be resolved.
  • 2)
    What caused the speaker of the monologue to feel happier during her childhood?
  • a)
    Her parents had triplets.
  • b)
    A relative moved in with them.
  • c)
    Her brothers spent more time playing with her.
  • 3)
    In the second dialogue, what do Linda and Cathy tell the interview?
  • a)
    How their parents’ divorce affected them emotionally.
  • b)
    How Cathy continually annoyed Linda.
  • c)
    What the main cause of problems between them was.

6. Listen and write the sentences from the listening.

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7. How are the sentences in exercise 6 spoken? Mark the features of fast speech from exercise 2. Then listen again and check. Practise saying the sentences.

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