Contents
Key to Exercise
Tapescript
Unit One Directions
Section 1
Part 1 How Can 1 Get to Your House?(Supplementary Reading)
Part 2 What Did You Do Last Night?
Section 2
Part 1 Finding a Garage(Supplementary Reading)
Part 2 Working Out How to Get Downtown(Supplementary Reading)
Section 3
Part 1 Can You Tell Me the Way, Please?
Part 2 Where Are They Going?
Unit Two Descriptions
Section 1
Part 1 At the Youth Club
Part 2 Has Anyone Seen This Person?
Section 2
Part 1 What Did She Look Like?
Part 2 What Did He Look Like?
Section 3
Part 1 Who Are They?
Part 2 What Kind of Person Is He?
Part 3 Could You Describe Them?
(Supplementary Speaking)
(Supplementary Reading)
Section 4
Part 1 Which One is It?
Part 2 Could You Describe It to Me, Please?
Section 5
Part 1 Animals
(Supplementary Writing)
Unit Three Positions
Section 1
Part 1 I'm Interested in Buying a Car
(Supplementary Speaking)
Part 2 Which One' s Peter?
Section 2
Part 1 How Are You Going to Decorate and Fumish the Kitchen?
Part 2 Where Shall 1 Put It?
Section 3
Part 1 Where Shall We Meet?
Part 2 WhereIsRoom 4?
Section 4
Part 1 We've Got a House for You
Part 2 This Is the House
Section 5
Part 1 The Seaview Hotel
Part 2 George Square
Unit Four Accommodation
Section 1
Part 1 Finding Somewhere to Live
Part 2 A Roof over Your Head
Part 3 Apartment Hunting
(Supplementary Reading)
Section 2
Part 1 The New Student
Part 2 Anything Interesting in the Paper Today?
(Supplementary Reading)
Section 3
Part 1 Advice
Part 2 The Apartment
Section 4
Part 1 This Is What We Want
Part 2 The Past and the Present
(Supplementary Reading)
Section 5
Part 1 Looking for a Quiet Accommodation
Part 2 Advertisements
Section 6
Part 1 Apartment Problems
Part 2 A Neglected House
(Supplementary Reading)
Unit Five Travel (1)
Section 1
Part 1 At a Travel Agency
Part 2 Calling a Travel Agency
Part 3 Package Holidays
Section 2
Part 1 1 Want to Fly to Hamburg
Part 2 Can You Tell Me the Times of the Trains to Newcastle?
Part 3 At a Ticket Window
Section 3
Part 1 Airport Announcements
Part 2 May 1 Have Your Attention, Please?
Part 3 How to Get a British Passport?
(Supplementary Reading)
Section 4
Part 1 At the Check-in Counter
Part 2 Go Through the Security Check
part 3 Coming Through Immigration
Section 5
Part 1 At the Customs (1)
Part 2 At the Customs (2)
Part 3 Have You Anything to Declare?
(Supplementary Reading)
Section 6
Part 1 Reserving Hotel Accommodation
Part 2 I'd Like a Room, Please.
Part 3 Recommending Hotels for a Holiday
(Supplementary Reading)
UnitSix Travel(2)
Section 1
Part 1 Do You Like Travelling?
Part 2 You Can Imagine How We Felt
(Supplementary Reading)
Section 2
Part 1 A Good Experience
Part 2 A Camping Holiddy
Section 3
Part 1 Travel Troubles
Part 2 Advice from Experts
Section 4
Part 1 Jet Lag
(Supplementary Reading)
Part 2 How Did You Get Around?
(Supplementary Exercises)
Section 5
Part 1 The Best Way to Travel
Part 2 Plans about Visiting Canberra
Section 6
Part 1 Presenting Tour Packages
Part 2 Talking about a Holiday
Section 7
Part 1 The Man Who Missed the Plane
Part 2 Planning a Holiday
Unit Seven Announcements
Section 1
Part 1 Airport Announcements (1)
Part 2 Airport Announcements (2)
Part 3 Airport Announcements (3)
Part 4 Announcements for Air Passengers
Part 5 In-flight Announcements
Section 2
Part 1 At the Railway Station
Part 2 Announcement in a Bus
Part 3 Announcements for Sea Travelers
Section 3
Part 1 Radio Announcements
Part 2 Public Announcements
Part 3 Broadcast Announcements
Section 4
Part 1 Announcement at a Meeting
Part 2 Announcement for Advertisement
Unit Eight Transportation
Section 1
Part 1 Hiring a Car
Part 2 At the Petrol Station
Part 3 Getting about by Train(Supplementary Reading)
Section 2
Part 1 You Mustn't Talk to Me While I'm Driving
Part 2 lAma Very ImportantMan (1)
Part 3 1 Am a Very Important Man (2)
(Supplementary Reading)
Section 3
Part 1 Letter to the Editor
Part 2 Everyday Experiences
Part 3 Judy in a Jam
(Supplementary Reading)
Section 4
Part 1 Back-seat Driving
Part 2 One Man' s Work
Part 3 Likes and Dislikes
(Supplementary Reading and Speaking)
Section 5
Part 1 When Did It Happen?
Part 2 Drunk Driver
Part 3 Hit and Run
(Supplementary Speaking and Reading)
Section 6
Part 1 Transport Facilities
Part 2 Not the End, But the Beginning
Part 3 The Difficulties Facing British Rail
(Supplementary Reading)
Unit Nine Jobs
Section 1
Part 1 Finding Job Resources
(Supplementary Reading)
Part 2 Reading Newspaper Job Ads
(Supplementary Reading)
Part 3 Using Telephone Book Yellow Pages
(Supplementary Reading)
Section 2
Part 1 A New Job
Part 2 Ringing about Ad. for an Accountant
(Supplementary Reading)
Section 3
Part 1 Richard Gets a New Job
Part 2 An Interview for a Job
(Supplementary Reading)
Section 4
Part 1 Unemployment
Part 2 I'm Not Very Pleased with You
(Supplementary Reading)
Section 5
Part 1 Part-time Work in Britain
Part 2 Job Outlook
(Supplementary Reading)
Section 6
Part 1 How to Manage to Get an Interview
Part 2 What Are Suitable Replies?
(Supplementary Reading)
Unit Ten Newscast
Section 1 VOA News in Special English (1)
Part 1 The Top Political Adviser
Part 2 The Explosion
Part 3 Humanitarian Assistance
Part 4 The Nation's Presidential Election
Section 2 VOA News in Special English (2)
Part 1 Weather News
Part 2 Investigations about the Bombing
Part 3 Food Poisoning
Part 4 Air Crash
Section3 VOA News in Standard English (1)
Part1 Moving Troops
Part2 Economic Sanctions Against Iraq
(Supplementary Reading)
Part3 The Clashes
(Supplementary Reading)
Part4 Summit Meeting
Section4 VOA News in Standard English (2)
Part1 Negotiation Between Russia and Chechnya
Part2 Oil Spill
Part3 Food Aid
Part4 The Bombing Case
Sectino5 BBC English News (1)
Part1 General Elections
Part2 Things are Getting Better
Part3 Food Aid
Part4 About Single Currency
Section6 BBC English news (2)
Part1 On The Currency Market
Part2 The Deadlock was Broken
Part3 Britain Goes Metric
Part4 Local Radio Programme
Translation