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Listening Skills Practice: My Favourite Things - Exercises: 1. Preparation: Matching

This document provides instructions and content for an English listening skills practice activity about people's favorite things. It includes: 1. A preparation exercise matching verbs with nouns to describe favorite activities before listening. 2. A matching exercise linking speakers to their favorite things after listening, such as a tablet or sewing machine. 3. A gap fill exercise to complete while listening about people's favorite tablet, cat, scooter, sewing machine, and knives.

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Listening Skills Practice: My Favourite Things - Exercises: 1. Preparation: Matching

This document provides instructions and content for an English listening skills practice activity about people's favorite things. It includes: 1. A preparation exercise matching verbs with nouns to describe favorite activities before listening. 2. A matching exercise linking speakers to their favorite things after listening, such as a tablet or sewing machine. 3. A gap fill exercise to complete while listening about people's favorite tablet, cat, scooter, sewing machine, and knives.

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Listening skills practice: My favourite things – exercises

WORKSHOP 4: Listen to the speakers describing their favourite things and do the exercises to practise and
improve your listening skills.
Click on: https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening/intermediate-b1-listening/favourite-things

1. Preparation: matching
Do this exercise before you listen. Match the verb with the correct noun and write a – g next to the
numbers 1 – 7.

1…… take a. a designer


..
2…… listen to b. your
.. scooter
3…… watch c. a
.. business

stroke (= move your hand


4............gently over something) d. films

5…….. park e. photos

make it as (= be
6............successful as) f. the cat

7…….. set up (= start) g. music

2. Check your understanding: matching


Match the speakers with their favourite things. Write a – e next to the numbers 1 – 5.

1…… Speaker A a. a tablet


..
2…… Speaker B b. a sewing
.. machine
3…… Speaker C c. a scooter
..
4…… Speaker D d. a set of knives
..
5…… Speaker E e. a cat
..
3. Check your understanding: gap fill

Do this exercise while you listen. Write the word to fill the gaps.

1. My favourite thing has to be my new tablet. It’s really light and quite______________, so I take it with me
everywhere. I’m always writing to friends and it’s big enough to do college work on it too. It takes
really good _____________, and I play games and listen to__________on it as well, of course. I often
download _____________ onto it, and watch them in _____________. My mum says I’m______________,
because I’m always on it. I even read things on it at breakfast time. I’m not allowed to at _____________
time, though. I have to be_______________and talk to people then. “Welcome back to real life,” my mum
says.

2. My favourite thing? Does my_______________count as a thing? She’s not really a thing, but anyway.
She’s a really _____________ little cat. I’ve had her since she was_______________months old. You know
how some cats are really_______________and hardly talk to you? I know cats don’t really talk, but you
know what I mean. Well, she’s not like that at all. She’s really_______________and comes up to me as
soon as I get home, purring away like mad. She makes a lot of_______________for a tiny thing. She loves
being stroked and comes and curls up next to me when I’m on the______________. She’s great
_____________.

3. My new scooter! It’s quite small, but______________, and just what I needed for getting around the
_____________. I used to have quite a long walk to the______________, then a longish walk at the other
end to get to _____________. But now I can just whiz there on my______________. And there’s no
problem parking, there’s always _____________ for it. You have to be_______________with the cars and
_____________ – they don’t always see you – and when it rains the surface of the road is
_____________, it gets really slippery. But in general it’s perfect for me, and I can fit a_______________on
the back too – I’ve got an extra_______________for a friend. It’s great. Riding along makes me feel so free.
4. This might sound a bit old-fashioned, but my sewing_______________is my favourite thing. I’m studying
_____________ and love making things, as well as designing them. I also love_______________myself
and often buy second-hand clothes – everyone loves the “vintage”_______________at the moment – and
then I adapt them to my______________. It’s much easier using a machine to do that than doing it by
_____________. I do alterations for my mum and my sister too. If I don’t make it as a______________, I
suppose I can always set up my own alterations and customising______________. Customising clothes, by
taking things off and adding things on, is actually very______________, so I wouldn’t mind that.

5. My set of Japanese knives. That sounds a bit sinister, doesn’t it, but I’m not a_______________or
anything. They’re chef’s knives and the best ones come from______________. Cooking is my new hobby. I
got into it when I started watching Masterchef on TV. Then I went to an evening_______________for
beginners, and I haven’t looked back since. I try and have a_______________for between four and eight
_____________ every two or three______________. That gives me something to work towards and I
always do new_______________so they can try them out and give me feedback. It’s quite an
_____________ hobby if you use good______________, but now my friends help towards the
_____________. They still get a good_______________for a very low price.

What’s your favourite thing?

Why is it important to you?

Vocabulary Box Write any new words you have learnt in this lesson.

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