NİŞANTAŞI ÜNİVERSİTESİ Lıstenıng & speakıng skılls ı1 WEEK 13: habıts NİŞANTAŞI ÜNİVERSİTESİ © İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi iisbf.nisantasi.edu.tr
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. NİŞANTAŞI ÜNİVERSİTESİ ©
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 NİŞANTAŞI ÜNİVERSİTESİ ©
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. NİŞANTAŞI ÜNİVERSİTESİ ©
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? NİŞANTAŞI ÜNİVERSİTESİ ©
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. NİŞANTAŞI ÜNİVERSİTESİ ©
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. NİŞANTAŞI ÜNİVERSİTESİ ©
NİŞANTAŞI ÜNİVERSİTESİ © References http://www.elllo.org/english/1151/T1194-Alex-Habits.html NİŞANTAŞI ÜNİVERSİTESİ ©