listening activities

Listening III

Opec holds first summit after Arab Spring

Ability: Listening Comprehension

Time 5 hrs.

Objectives

1. -Recognize the media and type of the text.

2. -Apply strategies and techniques for to understand the message,
3. -Identify the role of communication in spoken texts.

4. -Uses thematic and linguistic knowledge.

FUNTIONS: Express understanding about the information

MORPHOSYNTACTICS AND

STRUCTURAL: present, present simple, present continuous, past.

FORMULA: Information

 NOUNS: holding, importer, recovery.                              

VERBS: increase, developed, add.

ADJECTIVES: expensive, low, higher, convincing.

ADVERBS: notably, increasingly, down.

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Pre listening

Recognize the images and then answer the following questions

What countries export oil?

What mean OPEC?

Why the oil price is variable?

While listening

Work in pair:

-You have to pay attention and take notes to the following listening( 55 seconds) You can listen only 3 times.

-you have to discuss with your partner about the topic.

http://http-ws.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite.net/mp3/learningenglish/2011/06/witn_opec_report_110608_witn_opec_report_audio1_au_bb.mp3

Post listening

Fill in the gaps

8th June 2011

Opec holds first summit after Arab Spring

Words in the News © British Broadcasting Corporation 2011

bbclearningenglish.com

Opec, the oil exporting countries group, is holding a meeting of energy ministers in Vienna,

where they are discussing whether to increase output. Opec's biggest producer, Saudi Arabia,

does want an increase, but others, notably Iran and Venezuela, are opposed.

Oil is expensive again. The price is more than three times the lows it him__________ the financial crisis, driven higher by__________ in ____________ by the_________

__________ in the Middle East and North Africa. It is increasingly an economic problem for oil importers, especially in the developed countries, where _________ is not very convincing. The oil price is adding to_________ _______ and it’s hitting consumers who have less to spend on other goods and services.

Saudi Arabia, along with Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are willing to respond by___________supplies which should bring prices down. But others aren't so ______, including Iran and Venezuela who don't have a great deal of ________ _______ and have poor __________ __________with the rich world.

Saudi Arabia, however, does have room to increase production and might well choose to do so whatever Opec decides.

Andrew Walker, BBC News.

Vocabulary and definitions

1.-keen very interested and committed

2.-political unrest turmoil or agitation which threatens the stability of a

    government

3.-boosting making larger in number

4.-in the wake of after, or following

5.-robust growth big, fast enlargement in size

6.-emerging economies fast growing economies of certain Asian and Latin

    American countries which are starting to compete with

    successful, rich countries

7.-inflationary pressures forces which push prices up, usually due to an           increase in

    the volume of money and credit available in the market

8.-spare capacity here, the resources to produce more oil

9.-diplomatic relations work between countries to maintain peaceful ties

10.-recovery here, the improvement of developed countries’ economies,

   back to how they were before the recent financial crisis