Exercises - Listening - BBC News Items
How to use this material  Print the Word pages with the exercises Before you listen, read the text. Try to predict the kind of words the gap needs, brainstorm on synomyns. Get the audio: the list with the link is below. First Listening: Skim the text, just listen, relax. Try to identify the topic, the characters involved, the context. Visualize the story. Second and Third Listenings: scan for the answers and fill in the gaps. Don't worry if you need to listen to the story three times or more. Write down how many times you needed to fill in all the gaps. Check your answers |
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| Worksheets 14 BBC 2005 news items  (5 pages)Audios for the 14 BBC 2005 news items 01.  Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks dies  02. UNICEF report on education 03. World slow to face bird flu threat 04. Storm season ends 05. Spain's greenhouse gas problem 06. IMF discuss debt relief for 20 countries 07. London bomb attacks 08. New York subway search 09. Scientists study violence 10. Israel begins Gaza Strip pull-out 11. Aids continues to spread 12. Royal Mail prize for coming to work 13. The Oscars 14. New European anti-smoking campaign Answer Key Answers 1-14 |
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