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Listening Comprehension Friends Worksheet

The document provides questions and tasks about listening to an audio extract from the TV show "Friends" where Matthew Perry's character Joey pretends to be taking an English language class. Students are asked to make predictions about the characters and plot before watching the clip silently and then answering comprehension questions about what happens. The purpose is to analyze listeners' understanding of the audio content.

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Listening Comprehension Friends Worksheet

The document provides questions and tasks about listening to an audio extract from the TV show "Friends" where Matthew Perry's character Joey pretends to be taking an English language class. Students are asked to make predictions about the characters and plot before watching the clip silently and then answering comprehension questions about what happens. The purpose is to analyze listeners' understanding of the audio content.

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Listening
Comprehension
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G84gK7UVdxw

 LISTENING TO THE SOUNDTRACK  (00:00- 00:45)


 Listen to the soundtrack. Find out about the characters :

 How many people speak ? Circle the correct answer.

1 2 3 4 5
 How many male voices ? ……….……… How many female voices ? ……….……………

 Name them if possible .  ………………………………………………………………………………………………………

 Imagine where the action could take place ? 


 ……….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
 What do you expect the recording to be ? (Nature)

 Tick the correct answers :


 a commercial  an extract from a movie  a comedy show  an interview
 a documentary  a TV series  an interview

 BEFORE VIEWING  UNDERSTANDING THE TITLE

 Here’s the TITLE of the recording : JOEY LEARNING ENGLISH


What do you expect Joey to do in that place ? 

 ……….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

 SILENT VIEWING  (00:00- 00:53)


 Check your predictions from questions 2 & 3! Complete the sentence :

The recording is actually a ……….………………………………… called “Friends ” starring Matthew


Steven LeBlanc as …………………… .The action takes place in a ….……………………… .

 What do we learn about the characters ? Make guesses !

 The two men at the beginning of the extract ………………………………………………………………………………..


 The young lady ………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………..
 The lady …………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………..
 What are Joey’s feelings ? Tick the correct answers 
 panicky  nervous  confident  ill-at-ease  comfortable  pleased
 enthusiastic  bored  determined  interested  seductive

 What do you expect him to do ?


……….………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………………

 VIEWING
 What does his friend expect him to do? 

 ……….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
 What does Joey actually do ? 
 ……….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
 What class are the students attending ? 
……….………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………………

 What is the overall atmosphere ? 

 friendly  tense  relaxed  humorous  unfriendly  welcoming


 threatening  reassuring  intimidating  hostile

 About the characters :


 Tick the statements that best apply to the main characters.

Joey
 English is Joey’s native language.
 English is his second language.
 He is a beginner at English.
 He has a wonderful accent because he is actually American.
 He is Hispanic.
 He is attending this class to improve his English.
 He needs to learn English.
 He pretends to be a foreigner.  He is a foreign student.

The young lady


 She is a foreigner.
 She wants to improve her English.
 English is her first language.
 She already speaks English quite well.
 She has just started learning English as a second language.
 She must be Mexican.
 Why is the teacher surprised when Joey speaks?
….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

 What did the teacher expect her students to do over the weekend?
….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

 How would you describe the characters’ reactions ? Match them up!

The girl  impressed  bored  pleased  competitive

The teacher

 flattered  proud  full of admiration


Joey

The other male student


 satisfied  annoyed  encouraging  self-confident

 What emotion does the extract appeal to ?


….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

 Explain in what makes the situation funny.


….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
….…………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………
….……………………………………………………………………………..……………………………………………………………………

 If this was a commercial for a language school, what could the slogan be ?

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