English for Specific Purposes

Lesson 6Talks

Quiz

•2 minutes to review homework

•Pass in your homework

•Take the quiz

Talks• Like the Conversations

questions, but only 1 person talkingAnnouncements (train,

store, etc.)News/WeatherBusiness meetings

Announcements• Page 32, Part 1

Listen to four announcements

Decide where they are from

Announcements• Page 32, Part 2

Read the phrases in the orange box

Listen againWhen you hear a

phrase, write the letter

Content words• Reminder: Content words are

“important” words—usually nouns or verbs

• For talks (like conversations) preview the questions and answers, looking at the content words

Content words• Goal: To guess

What (big topic)WhereWhoWhat details to listen for

Practice• Page 34

Preview questions 1-3Predict the information at

the topListen, and answer

Dictation practice• Page 37, Part D• Listen and fill in the

blanks

Mini-test• Page 38• Questions 1-6• Questions 7-12

Practice• Try p. 53, questions 1-3

You have 30 seconds for the first pass

You have 60 seconds for the second pass

Voice mails• Page 88, purple box

Pattern• Introduction•Purpose/background•Request/suggestion/option

Part 1Part 3

Midterm• The next class is the

midterm• Four parts:

Listening 17Reading (IS/TC) 21Vocabulary 30Strategy 5

Midterm—Listening• 5 Photograph questions• 2 Conversations

3 questions each• 2 Talks

3 questions each• Ph. Q only once,

Conv/Talks played twice

Midterm—Reading• 15 Incomplete Sentences• 2 Text Completion

3 questions each

Midterm—Vocab• 30 questions from all of

the words you’ve had from the homework so far3 x 5 definitions3 x 5 “Text Completion”

Midterm—Strategy • 5 questions about “how”

to succeed on the TOEICContent wordsParts of speechMethods

Studying?• Learn all 129 vocabulary

words• Practice previewing

listening questions• Practice IS & TC

questions in the book

Studying?• Know:

Content words (p. 25)2-pass method for IS/TC

(p.41)Future tenses (p. 40)Past tenses (p. 43)Parts of speech (p. 48)Suffixes (p. 51)