1. NİŞANTAŞI ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Lıstenıng & speakıng skılls ı1
WEEK 13: habıts
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2. Pre-listening activities
A.Discuss the following questions with your partner.
1.Do you have any bad habits? Tell a friend.
2.What kind of bad habits are they? Eating habits, sleeping habits, etc……
3.What can you do to stop doing those bad habits?
B.Listen to your partner’s bad habits and try to give him/her some advice.
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3. Pre-listeninAg activities
C.Match the words in A with their definitions in B in pairs. A B
Meal
Cannot be bothered
Weight
Duvet cover
Crank something up
End up
Conniption fit
At a certain point
Spill
Go too far off the deep end
a soft cover that usually filled with feathers
to use something on a higher volume or level like air conditioner or music
to become or reach a certain place or level
to behave in a way that upsets or annoys people
when an amount of food is eaten on a regular time in the day like breakfast or dinner
to be very angry or upset
don’t wont to do something because it takes too much time and effort
the amount of kilograms of a body
in the end
to drop liquid from a glass or a container like water , juice, wine or petrol
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4. Pre-listening activities
D.Complete the sentences with the words given in exercise 3 there are three extras. Then, compare your answers with your partner. 1.I love this song. _________ it __________ . 2.He ______________________________ to get out of bed right now. 3.She basically has a __________________if anyone touches her things. It makes her crazy. 4.When he started talking about inventing his own language, we knew he'd really _____________________ . 5.You can try to stay awake all night, but ____________________ you will have to get some sleep. 6.Be careful! Do not ____________ the coffee on yourself. It is too hot. 7.You have to watch your _____________ if you eat fast food every day.
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5. While-listening activities
Answer the following questions about the interview.
1.Why doesn't Alex cook much?
2.What can’t Alex sleep without?
3.How does Alex waste electricity?
4.What happened when Alex lost his key?
5.What is good about going dancing?
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6. While-listening activities
B.Listen again, complete the conversation. Maria: Any habits you'd like to change? 1.Alex: I would like to change my habits of _______ bad food and drinks. 2.Alex: Thank you. My mother taught me to cook well but I don't, I don't know, sometimes I just cannot _____ bothered so I wish I had the habit of just always _______ much better with my food. That would help with the weight as well. What else? Habits, habits? I have some bad habits that I would like to _______. I have the bad habit of ______ to sleep with a duna, a duvet cover on. I have to have something like heavy otherwise I can't sleep. 3.Alex: Because in summer, I have to ________ the air conditioning up to really, really high, so as a result you know I end up ________ electricity so easy. I wish I had the habit of _________my computer off as well. I leave it on all the time. 4.Alex: I get too excited too quickly and just want to go _______ but the good thing about the dancing is that then you don't drink alcohol because at a certain point you have to _______ water.
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7. Post-listening activities
A. Discuss the questions with your group/ partner.
What differences are there between cities and regions in Turkey?
How have habits changed in the last 30 years?
Do people today have better or worse habits than people in the past? Explain how and why.
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