way2go! 5, Band für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer

77 transcripts Practice Pack (audio) Practice Pack, Unit 02, exercise 7 ( À 32) Announcer: Listen and check. Speaker: This is a photo Alan took yesterday and emailed to me so I can show it to my grandad. In the picture I’m standing next to Steve, who is sitting on the edge of the table. I’m the one with the curly blond hair. You can easily see John standing behind us as he is so tall! Have you noticed that all the boys are standing on one side and all the girls on the other? That’s because the girls are singing the high notes and the boys are singing the low notes. It’s easier to concentrate if we are standing with people singing the same music. What do you think of our school uniforms? The girls are wearing blue checked skirts that look like Scottish kilts. We are all wearing a blue blazer with the school badge on it. I think it looks pretty smart. The three girls in the front row are all in my class and the three in the back row are in the year below us. In the foreground you can see our conductor, Ms Jansen. She’s fun and is relaxed most of the time, apart from when we are performing. Then she gets very serious – but she does a great job. Practice Pack, Unit 03, exercise 9 ( À 33) Announcer: Listen to a woman talking about the school she went to. Helen: When I was 15, my father got a job for three years working in Hong Kong planning the underground system there. At that time, there weren’t many English- language schools in Hong Kong, so my parents decided that I needed to go to school in England and sent me to this all-girls boarding school in Kent. And I tell you, if you’ve ever read one of those girly books about boarding schools, or Harry Potter, it wasn’t at all like that. I hated every minute of it. There were five of us in one room, so typically two pairs of girls were good friends and one was left out – and that was usually me. Mind you, it taught me to be independent and to mind my own business, but back then I was really miserable a lot of the time, especially in the first year. That was before the internet and cheap telephone calls, so my mother would write me one letter per week, and I would write one letter back. I’d had quite a lot of freedom until then, so I found it really difficult to get used to strict study hours, and lights out at 10 and things like that. Also, we found out later that it was probably not the best school for me, because I’m a very practical person, and the school was very academic, with book prizes for those who came top of the class – and of course I never got one. I also remember that they wouldn’t let me learn German because I wasn’t very good at Latin, of all things, and they said that German was more complicated than Latin, so I wouldn’t be good at it – which was stupid because my mother spoke German, we had friends in Austria and I even knew a couple of words in German, so I had a personal connection to the language and wanted to learn it. Oh, and another thing was that we had to raise money for the school twice a year. For example, we had to bake biscuits and sell them, and we had to use our own pocket money to buy the stuff for making the biscuits, and I found that really – what would you say now? Really lame. Practice Pack, Unit 03, exercise 10 ( À 34) Announcer: Listen to a girl talking about her school. Estella: I attend the strangest school on earth. My classroom is enormous, it is twice the size of Texas, but there are only about 140 students in the whole school. I live with my parents and 2 sisters on a sheep station about 300 miles northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territories of Australia, and I attend Year 10 of the School of the Air. What this means is that we have a satellite dish at home, and every morning I sit down in front of my computer and do my lessons online. There’s about 10 of us in one group, and we all live too far away from school to attend regularly, so we get together every morning for about, I don’t know, half an hour when Sam, our teacher, explains what we are supposed to do for the day, and then we are free to get things done and mail written homework to him. I think it’s a great way to go to school because it means that I can stay here with my family and not have to go to boarding school, and I still get to know all the kids living in my area. We do all the traditional subjects, like maths, and languages, I’m learning Spanish, by the way, or science, and at the end of the year we take the same tests as the kids that go to ‘normal’ schools. And we’re better than them! We even have assembly every second week, when all the teachers and kids get together in front of their computers and we sing Happy Birthday to whoever has had their birthday in the past two weeks, or if somebody has been doing really well, they get praised by the headteacher, Mr Williams. And we have school camps four times a year, where we meet for a week and do sports together or go on school trips, and even have lessons like science experiments we can’t do on our own. Practice Pack, Unit 06, exercise 2 ( À 36) Announcer: Listen and check. Speaker: Neon colours have been in and out of fashion since the 1980s. Back then these bright colours were popular for items of clothing. Pop stars like Madonna wore neon bracelets and fingerless gloves. So many teenagers copied this style. Now and then neon colours came back into fashion. Still, they were never again as popular as in the 1980s. Practice Pack, Unit 07, exercise 8 ( À 37) Announcer: Listen to the two interviews. … Interview 1. Oscar: Hi! Greg: Hi! Oscar: Can I ask you a couple of questions for that school project I’m doing? Greg: Sure, go ahead, always ready to help a fellow sufferer. Oscar: It’s about sports. Do you do any sports regularly? I’m sure you do, you look the type. Greg: Actually, yes, I do, you guessed right. I’m a cross- country runner. Oscar: Really? That sounds cool. Like through mud puddles and across cornfields? Greg: Well, we generally try to avoid the cornfields, but mud puddles, yeah, you’ve got it, right through them. Oscar: How often do you do this? Greg: Fairly often, I’d say, I do an outside run at least Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verla s öbv