Unit Fourteen Dating (II)

PartAMicro-listening

PartBMacro-listening

Part C Oral Practice

Part D Home Listening

Listen to This Music --------Devoted to You

Darling you can count on me‘Til the sun dries up the sea

Until then I’ll always be devoted to youI’ll be yours till endless time

I’ll adore your charms sublimeGuess by now you know

That I’m devoted to you

I’ll never hurt youI’ll never lie

I’ll never be untrue I’ll never give you reason to cryI’d be unhappy if you were blue

Thru the years my love will grow like a riverIt will flow

It can’t dieBecause I’m devoted to you

Conversation 1 An Expensive Way to Go for a Date

Conversation 2

What Are You Doing on Monday Night

Listen to the conversation and complete the answers to the following questions.

1. When and where did Kathy and Tom plan to meet for their first date?

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2. Did Kathy pay a lot for her first date? Why?

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3. How did Kathy travel to her first date with Tom

________________________________________________. 4. How come that Kathy spotted Tom immediately at the airport?

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Listen to the conversation and choose the best answers to each of the questions you hear

after the conversation.

1. a. She will say home. b. She will go to the concert with Peter. c. She will invite Peter to a concert. d. She has not decided yet. 2. a. She doesn’t want to hurt Peter by refusing again. b. She is afraid that she might lose Peter. c. She wants to have a change after a busy week. d. She can’t think of a reason not to accept Peter’s invitation

again.

3. a. She’s been studying late into the night all week. b. She’s made plans to work late all week. ________________________________________.

Listen to the conversation and write down answers to the following questions.

c. She’ not been free to go out with Peter all

week. d. She’s been busy tidying up her apartment all

week.

4. a. Peter is very patient and determined. b. Monica’s roommate does most of the

cleaning in their apartment. c. Monica doesn’t really care for Peter. d. Monica likes concerts better than shows.

Communicative Function:Invitations

In your college years you will often find occasions when you want to invite your friends out for a dinner, a show or something else. There are also occasions when you yourself are invited. How do you approach someone and extend an invitation? How do you do it appropriately to increase your chance of success? How do you respond when you are invited? How do you accept or decline an invitation without giving offence? Remember, if you have to turn down an invitation, it’s always polite to apologize and give a reason why you can’t make it. In the box below you’ll find some sentences and structures that you can use when asking or being asked for a date.

A Blind Date Listen to the story carefully and choose the right answers to the

questions you hear after the story.

1. a. How embarrassed the speaker was when dating a girl he had never met before.

b. How excited the speaker was to find that his blind date was a fashionable girl.

c. How the speaker fell madly in love with his blind date.

d. Why people shouldn’t go on blind dates.

2. a. He danced with Sophie. b. He talked a lot about himself.

c. He paid for an expensive meal. d. He told jokes.

A Blind Date Listen to the story carefully and choose the right

answers to the questions you hear after the story.

3. a. She was quite reserved. b. She was rather talkative..

c. She was hard to please. d. She was a model.

4. a. The speaker will see Sophie in three months’ time.

b. The speaker’s first date with Sophie may be a success.

c. Sophie doesn’t show any interest in the speaker.

d. Sophie will surely not see the speaker again.