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SS/Chapter 1: The Boy Who Lived
L i s t en i n g
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Reading-Listening Connection:
Listen to each sentence. Look at the list of alternative sentences, and choose the one that has the
closest meaning to the sentence you hear spoken. Listen and look at the example.
1.
Mr. Dursley hummed as he picked
out his most boring tie.
2. Mrs. Dursley gossiped away
happily.
3. Mr. Dursley pecked Mrs. Dursley
on the cheek.
4. “Little tyke,” chortled
Mr. Dursley.
5. He noticed the first sign of
something peculiar.
6. Mr. Dursely put the cat out
of his mind.
7. Drills were driven out of his mind
by something else.
8. Mr. Dursley couldn’t bear people
who dressed in funny clothes.
9. The getups you saw on young
people!
10. He drummed his fingers on the
steering wheel.
11. The nerve of him!
12. They pointed and gazed openmouthed.
13. He thought he’d stretch his legs.
14. He eyed them angrily.
15. He was clutching a large doughnut
in a bag.
16. He caught a few words of what
they were saying.
17. Mr. Dursley stopped dead.
18. Fear flooded him.
19. He thought better of it.
20. He didn’t blame her.
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(a) They gestured and stared in amazement.
(b) He was holding a snack tightly.
(c) He couldn’t tolerate people in unusual attire.
(d) How dare he!
(e) He heard something from their conversation.
(f) He froze in shock.
(g) He happily chose his most uninteresting tie.
(h) He changed his mind and decided not to.
(i) “Cute devil”, he said in amusement.
(j) He deliberately stopped thinking about the cat.
(k) He saw the first indication of something weird.
(l) By goodness the youth wear ridiculous things!
(m) He sympathized with her situation.
(n) He was inclined to get some quick exercise.
(o) She talked endlessly about unimportant things.
(p) Mr. Dursley glared at them in fury.
(q) Something interrupted his thinking about tools.
(r) He tapped his fingers on the wheel.
(s) He kissed her.
(t) Mr. Dursley was filled with dread.
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ANNOTATED TEACHER’S VERSION
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Mr. Dursley gets home from work, slightly worried about some strange things he has seen and heard during the day. After
dinner, he goes into the living room in time to catch the last report on the evening news. Let’s find out how Mr. Dursley’s
day becomes even stranger…!
1. Anchorman Ted with the last of the Evening News:
Listening Notes
And finally, bird-watchers everywhere have reported that the
nation’s owls have been behaving very unusually today.
Although owls
normally hunt at night and are hardly ever seen in daylight, there
have been hundreds of sightings of these birds flying in every
direction since sunrise.
Experts are unable to explain why the owls
have suddenly changed their sleeping pattern.
And now, over to Jim McGuffin with the weather.
Most mysterious.
Going to be any
more showers of owls tonight, Jim?”
2. Jim McGuffin’s Weather Report:
Listening Notes
Well, Ted, I don’t know about that, but it’s not only the owls that
have been acting oddly today.
Kent /Yorkshire/ Dundee
Viewers as far apart as Kent,
Yorkshire, and Dundee have been phoning in to tell me that instead of
the rain I promised yesterday, they’ve had a downpour of shooting
stars! Perhaps people have been celebrating Bonfire Night early –
it’s not until next week, folks!
But I can promise a wet night tonight.
Listening-Speaking Connection:
Team up with another student and prepare this (or your own) news broadcast featuring an anchor and a
weatherman/woman reporting on strange events and happenings!
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ANNOTATED TEACHER’S VERSION
Listening Activity – Evening News Dictogloss