Prime Time 7, Coursebook plus Semester Self-checks

Listening: Reflections of a former British Muslim extremist You are going to listen to an interview with Ed Husain, a British Muslim. First you will have 45 seconds to study the task below, then you will hear the recording twice. While listening, complete the sentences (1–5) using a maximum of four words. Write your answers in the spaces provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. 0 The interviewer addresses Ed Husain as … . a British citizen ✔ 1 For him Britishness is hard … . 2 A lot of people arrived in Britain in the 1960s after the British Empire … . 3 The original plan of these immigrants was to … . 4 Some immigrant communities live … separately. 5 Urdu and other languages were used … . 1  9 3.6 Can understand recordings in standard dialect likely to be encountered in social, professional or academic life and identify speaker viewpoints and attitudes as well as the information content. (B2) Language in use: A sense of community Read the text about integration. Some words are missing. Change the word in brackets to form the missing word for each gap (1–9). Write your answers in the spaces provided. The first one (0) has been done for you Blacks and Asians in the UK might have been quicker to develop a sense of …  0  (belong) to mainstream if they had felt better …  1  (representative) in Parliament. During the years of mass …  2  (immigrant) , however, the House of Commons remained …  3  (strict) white, and it was not until 1987 that the first four non-white Members of Parliament were …  4  (election) . At the time this was seen as an event …  5  (mark) a significant change, but in fact even by 2005 there were still only fifteen MPs of ethnic minority …  6  (original) . Campaigners say the number required for the correct …  7  (race) mix is at least fifty-five and that the only way to …  8  (solution) the problem is to adopt a policy of affirmative …  9  (act) . 0 belonging ✔ 1 4 7 2 5 8 3 6 9 2  135 Check-out Now you can • Describe and discuss pictures and text input. • Filter out lexical fields from given texts. • Write an e-mail to the editor. • Comment on content, tone, style and the author’s attitude. • Analyse and discuss a poem. • Write about events in the past. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv