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LISTENING TIPS
PART I: PHOTOS
Look at the pictures before you listen to the audio source. Ask yourself some questions:
Photos of people
Photos of things
Who is in the picture?
What is in the picture?
What do they look like?
What does it look like?
Where are they?
Where is it?
What are they doing?
Where are they?
PART II: QUESTION-RESPONSE
1. Identifying time
Words you might hear in the questions
Words you might hear in the answers
When did ….
yesterday, last, ago, this morning…
When will/is …expected; due / be … V_ing/can
at + time, tomorrow, next, in …, this afternoon ...
How long
for/since/over/during ….
What time
at …
2. Identifying people
Words you might hear in the questions
Words you might hear in the answers
Who
Name/Occupation title (tên hoặc chức vụ)
Whose
Possessive case (cách sở hữu)
3. Identifying an opinion
Words you might hear in the questions
Words you might hear in the answers
How
Adjectives: great, good, terrific, excellent, wonderful, happy, busy, terrible, sad, funny…
What’s your opinion of …?
Verbs: love, like, prefer, believe, think, guess…
Do you think Tom will ….?
Expressions: It’s a good/great idea
What do you think?
4. Identifying a choice
Words you might hear in the questions
Words you might hear in the answers
... A or B?
A/B will be repeated in the answer choice (A hoặc B sẽ được lặp lại ở câu trả lời)
.... like better?
.... prefer / rather?
5. Identifying a suggestion
Words you might hear in the questions
Words you might hear in the answers
Why don’t we …?
OK
Why don’t you…?
I’d love to!
Let’s …
That sounds like fun
What do you think?
Yes, please (accept the offer
What/How about …?
No, thanks … (turn down the offer
Shouldn’t we …?
Thank you, but …( turn down the offer)
Would(n’t) you like me to .?
I would like to … but…
Can I…?
Isn’t it time to …?
6. Identifying a reason
Words you might hear in the questions
Words you might hear in the answers
Why
Because + phrase / Because of + noun
Yes / No questions
Due to + noun
Did / Do you have an excuse / reason for …?
7. Identifying a location
Words you might hear in the questions
Words you might hear in the answers
Where…?
Names of the places
How far …?
Prepositions of places (in, next to, near, beside, under, over, on, on top of, at, from, behind, right, left, downtown, at the end of…
… km
… minutes away / walk / drive
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Numbers
Everyone working in business in English will, sooner and later, need to say numbers, in meetings or on the telephone. This usually requires practice.
1. Zero, oh or nought
For the number 0 on its own, we say zero.
Before a decimal point we say either zero or nought:
0.5 zero point five or nought point five
After a decimal point we say oh:
0.001 nought point oh oh one
We also say oh in telephone numbers, years, hotel room numbers, bus numbers, etc.
0121-602 0405 Her number is oh one two one, six oh two, oh four oh five.
1805 The Battle of Trafalgar was in eighteen oh five.
Room 802 I’m on the top floor, in room eight oh two.
Note: For football scores we say nil: Real Madrid three, Ajax Amsterdam nil (3-0); for tennis we say love: 15-0, fifteen-love, Nobody knows why!
2. Points and commas
In English we use a point (.) and not a comma (,) for decimals. We only use commas when writing numbers greater than 999:
15.001 fifteen point oh oh one
15,001 fifteen thousand and one
3. Decimals
In English, we usually read all the numbers (digits) after a decimal point separately, especially if there are more than two decimal places:
0.125 nought point one two five
5.44 five point four four
3.14159 three point one four one five nine
0.001 nought point oh oh one
Another way of saying 0.001 is 10-3 (ten to the power of minus three)
If you say 0.125 as zero point a hundred and twenty-five, an English speaker will instinctively hear, and ignore the zero point, thinking that you have made a mistake, or changed your mind while speaking. If you are doing deals on the telephone, you could quickly lose a lot of money by getting this wrong...
But if the number after a decimal point represents a unit (of money, etc.) it is read like a normal number:
£1.50 one pound fifty
£250 two hundred and fifty pounds
$3.15 three dollars fifteen
€7.80 seven euros eighty
2m18 two metres eighteen
Correct ways of wording:
Incorrect: 15 $
Correct: 15 dollars
Incorrect: $ 15
Correct: $15
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