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Listening Good Moves Accommodation Agency

Form completion
Call taken by: Ben
1 02 Listen to four short conversations, and
complete these sentences by choosing the correct Name: 1
word and/or number. Telephone: 2
1 The man is moving house on Friday 3rd / 13th / Heard about us from: 3
30th. Type of accommodation preferred:
2 The man has come from Crawford / Crauford / 4 .
Crawsord. Number of people: 5 .
3 The man’s mobile number is 0780 29227 / Preferred location: Wants to be close to
0872 92702 / 0870 292720. 6
4 Sue lives at 70 Sydney / 70 Sidney /
Price: maximum 7 £ per person
17 Sydney Avenue.
(including 8 )
2 03 Now listen to these short conversations, and
complete the sentences with no more than TWO
Additional notes:
WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER.
I suggested Flat 3 at 9 Road in
1 The woman’s name is . Bampton.
2 The woman’s mobile number is . I will send further details to customer by
3 The man’s address is , 10 .
Fenton.
4 The woman arrived on April.

3 You are going to hear a woman calling an

Vocabulary
accommodation agency about an apartment she Collocations and prepositional phrases
wants to rent. Before you listen, look at the form
on the right and answer the following questions.

In which gaps do you think you will need to write:

a a word (or words) only? 1 Which of these words are adjectives, and which
are nouns? Write the words in the box in the
b a number only?
correct columns.
c a word (or words) and a number?
festivals friendly food tasty inhabitants
4 04 Now listen and complete the form. Write no lively pretty scenery spectacular villages
more than TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for
each answer. Adjectives Nouns
friendly festivals

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Rawdon Wyatt
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2 Complete the gaps in this passage with an 3 We spent two weeks in a small village in / on
adjective and noun pair from Exercise 1. the mountains.
My home city (Part 1) 4 Property prices by / in the city centre are
What can I tell you about my home city? First of so expensive that only a few people can
all, I must mention its 1 friendly inhabitants . afford them.
Everyone smiles and says hello when you meet them.
5 The town of Wadi Musa is near / on the desert.
Then there’s the 2 which you can
get everywhere. It’s delicious, and really cheap. Four It’s only an hour’s drive away.
or five times a year there are 3 6 I would hate to live by / in the country. It must
where people celebrate important events with street be so quiet and boring there.
parties and other fun events. And if you get fed up
7 When I was a growing up in the UK, I lived in /
with the city, you can get a bus into the countryside,
where there are lots of 4 . The hills on the suburbs.
and mountains there also provide some really 8 Our house was right by / near a river. There
5 . was even a place at the end of garden where you
could leave your boat.
3 Which of these words are adjectives, and which
are nouns? Write the words in the box in the
correct columns. Key vocabulary
apartments crowded city industrial 6 Complete the passage with words from the box.
lifestyle relaxed streets tiny
conclude crime diverse impact
Adjectives Nouns industrial influence lifestyle locals
ranks reaction reputation surround
crowded apartments
The city where I live has a bad 1 reputation
because of its high 2 rate. If you believe
everything you read in the newspapers, you might
3 that everyone who visits the city has
their wallet stolen or gets attacked in the street the
4 Complete each gap in the passage below with moment they arrive. In recent years this has had
TWO words from Exercise 3. a negative 4 on the number of tourists
My home city (Part 2) who come to the city, since news stories can really
It has its bad points as well. It’s an 5 people when they are thinking of visiting
1 , which means that there is a lot a place. I won’t pretend that my city is the best
of pollution, and there are also lots of ugly factories place in the world. It’s noisy and crowded, and ugly
everywhere. Most people live in 2 6 estates 7 it on all sides. In
because houses are too expensive. They work really fact, it 8 as sixth on a national list of the
hard, and they can’t afford to enjoy the sort of country’s worst places to live, and for most visitors,
3 that many people associate with their first 9 is ‘Oh no, what a horrible
my country. And it can take ages to walk along the place!’ However, I think this is unfair. There are some
4 in the city centre because there attractive old buildings in the city, the 10
are so many people and so much traffic. population gives the place a colourful, international
feel, most of the 11 are friendly and
welcoming, and because prices are low, people can
5 Complete these sentences by choosing the best
preposition. afford to enjoy a 12 that is considerably
better than in many other cities.
1 My house is by / in the sea. You walk out of the
front door straight onto the beach.
2 I live in a two-room flat in / on the outskirts of
the city.

Great places to be 9

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