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English Listening Exercises for B1 – Travel solutions

8 exercícios

1. Complete the collocations with the verbs below.

  • board book check in check into
  • hail hire miss reach
  • 1)
    your bags / your luggage
  • 2)
    a room / a flight / a holiday
  • 3)
    your destination
  • 4)
    a hotel
  • 5)
    a taxi
  • 6)
    a train / a ship / a flight
  • 7)
    a car
  • 8)
    your flight / your train

Listening Strategy 1

It is sometimes difficult to catch names and proper nouns when you listen. However, you can use the words around them (including collocations) to work out what they are (a person, a place, etc.). For example, if you hear ‘We stayed four nights at the Grand Plaza’, the underlined words tell you that the Grand Plaza is a hotel.

2. Read Listening Strategy 1. Then listen to three short dialogues and answer the questions.

Audio
  • 1)
    In dialogue 1, how are they planning to travel to their hotel?
  • 2)
    In dialogue 2, what is the Aurora?
  • 3)
    In dialogue 3, what does the man think he’s lost?

3. Listen again. Which verbs from exercise 1 helped you answer the questions in exercise 2?

Audio
  • Dialogue 1:
  • Dialogue 2:
  • Dialogue 3:

Listening Strategy 2

Being aware of formal register can help you identify the context. Formal terms used in announcements include:

adjacent to (next to) beverages (drinks)

to commence (to begin) to depart (to leave)

due to (because of) prior to (before) to proceed to (to go to)

to purchase (to buy) refreshments (food and drink)

to terminate (to end)

4. Read Listening Strategy 2. Then complete the sentences with formal words from the Strategy that mean the same as the words in brackets.

  • 1)
    Will all passengers for Milan please (go to) gate 7b, which is (next to) gate 9.
  • 2)
    A wide range of (food and drink) are available to (buy) in the departure lounge.
  • 3)
    Passengers are advised that some flights will (leave) later than scheduled. This is (because of) the weather conditions.
  • 4)
    This train (ends) at Manchester. Please note that hot and cold (drinks) are available from the buffet car.

5. Listen to three extracts. Which two are formal? Which formal terms from Listening Strategy 2 do they include?

Audio
  • Extract ◻ is formal.
  • It includes these formal terms:
  • Extract ◻ is formal.
  • It includes these formal terms:

6. Listen again and circle the correct answers

Audio
  • 1)
    What is the speaker’s main purpose in extract 1?
  • a)
    To make sure everyone has a map.
  • b)
    To make sure nobody is late back to the coach.
  • c)
    To make sure everyone has time to buy souvenirs.
  • 2)
    Where is the announcement in extract 2 being made?
  • a)
    On a train.
  • b)
    At an underground station.
  • c)
    In an airport terminal.
  • 3)
    At what point in the flight is the announcement in extract 3 made?
  • a)
    Just before take-off.
  • b)
    Shortly after take-off.
  • c)
    Shortly before landing at the destination.

Extra exercises

7. Read the Strategy. Then read the extract from a recording and statements 1-6. Which statements match the information in the extract and are true? Which of the statements contain information that is not given in the extract? Why are the other statements false?

Strategy

Don’t rely on your general knowledge when choosing between true, false and not given answers. An answer can only be true for false if there is information in the text to support it.

  • Liam So Tony, do you think you’d ever try to organise something like the ‘Run for Life’ again?
  • Tony I really doubt it. It was an amazing experience, and I don’t at all regret that I took it on. I got loads of help from both friends and complete strangers, and that kept me going. But I kept worrying that if it didn’t go well, it would be my responsibility. That put pressure on me. Next time, someone else can do the organising and I’ll just volunteer.
  • 1)
    ‘Run for Life’ raises money for charity.
  • 2)
    Tony is sorry that he decided to organise the event.
  • 3)
    Tony appreciated the help that he got from others.
  • 4)
    Tony felt that it would be his fault if the event failed.
  • 5)
    Tony knows he worries too much about things.
  • 6)
    Tony plans to organise the next ‘Run for Life’.

8. You will hear an interview with a young person who has done something amazing. Are the statements true (T), false (F) or not given (NG)?

Audio
  • 1)
    Lindsay’s bike ride from Aberdeen to Brighton was about six hundred miles.
  • 2)
    Lindsay’s friend Stella was born blind.
  • 3)
    The idea for a bike ride was inspired by something that Lindsay did with Stella before the accident.
  • 4)
    Lindsay collected all the donations through the internet.
  • 5)
    Lindsay met people who do voluntary work with blind people.
  • 6)
    Almost £250,000 has already been donated.

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