6) Peru sets sights on 3.5 million foreign visitors in 2014

2) Peruvian government looks to eradicate extreme poverty by 2021

3) Lima underwater: Will climate change destroy the city?

4) Peru official says Schengen visa changes for Peruvians will take "more than a year"5) Specialists

warn that El Niño could have serious effects on Peru

1) Could Peruvian footballer Juan Manuel Vargas be off to Turkey?

7) Peruvian men spending more money on their appearance

8)

What’s the news?

Expectation WB p.8

• Can you remember your first time flying?

• Describe your first trip abroad

Expectation WB p.8

• Think about one of your important ‘firsts’. Tell your partner.

• Which ‘firsts’ are represented in the pictures? Rank them in order of how challenging they are.

Prepositional Phrases Noughts and Crosses!

in the region of in conjunction with

on behalf of

on the brink of in vain on the grounds that / of

to some extent on the verge of with the exception of

Part Task type Tests ability to Questions

1. Multiple choice

Listen to three short unrelated extracts of monologues or interacting speakers. Answer two multiple choice questions on each extract.

identify speaker feeling, attitude, opinion, purpose, agreement, course of action, gist and detail.

6

2. Sentence completion

Listen to a monologue and use the information to complete gaps in sentences

indentify specific information and stated opinion

9

3. Multiple choice

Listen to a text with a number of speakers and answer multiple choice questions

identify opinion, gist, detail and inference 5

4. Multiple matchingListen to five monologues and match statements to the right speaker(s)

identify specific information and stated opinion

10

Preparing for Listening

You can…

…listen to wide variety of recordings (news, TV shows, podcasts)…find a podcast you like and listen actively…share your favourite resources…do listening practice in class ….discuss which task types are in each section and which carry most marks