Objective: To improve your advanced listening skills and to help prepare you to pass official exams.
Think about it!
Track 18: Englishwoman & US man
What do you have for breakfast during the week? What do you have at the weekend? What’s your favourite type of
breakfast?
We’re having
breakfast!
Group Talk:
breakfast
Audio script
Answers on page 44
1
Listening I
You’re going to listen to a
conversation about breakfast.
What type of food do you think
people from the UK and USA
like for breakfast? Think. Then,
listen once to compare your
ideas.
2
Listening II
Listen again. Then, answer the
questions.
1. What does the first
speaker love about
breakfast?
2. What doesn’t one of
the speakers like about
putting fruit in your
cereal?
3. What’s one of the other
speaker’s favourite
thing in the whole
world?
4. What does the male
speaker say about eggs?
3
Listening III
Listen again and complete the
audio script with the correct
words.
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Mario: One of the things I love about breakfast
is just waking up in the morning and
knowing that the first thing I’m going to
be doing is eating.
Laura: Eating!
Megan: Yes I love breakfast!
Mario: I love it. I love…what kind of foods do you
like to eat for breakfast?
Laura: Well, on a normal day I, I love eating
cereal. Like...
Megan: Definitely!
Laura: …a good healthy hearty cereal. None of
. No, no, no.
the sugary (1)
Mario: No, like, something like corn flakes.
Megan: I like to mix it up a little bit.
in your
Mario: Do you ever put (2)
cereal?
Megan: I’ve tried it once, and… yeah, but it goes
all soggy.
really get soggy?
Laura: Do (3)
Megan: Well, I don’t know, they kind of mix up
. I just like a
with the (4)
.
bowl of cereal and a (5)
[That’s true.]
Mario: I mean, I’ve always been a huge fan of
,
enormous breakfasts like (6)
pancakes.
Laura: On the weekends.
Mario: I’ll do it all, I’ll do it all.
Laura: Actually, you know what my favorite thing
Note!
Don’t read the audio script
until you’ve completed
the exercises. Also, please
note that when people chat
informally, they often use nonstandard English and
they rarely speak in full
sentences.
in the world is?
Mario: What’s that?
.
Laura: Breakfast for (7)
Megan: Me too! I always have… just eggs on
, scrambled eggs or
(8)
omelette. Mmm... omelettes but,
that a
something in the (9)
lot of people would eat for breakfast.
Mario: Definitely, definitely. Especially eggs. I
mean, you can eat an egg at any point in
.
the day. Any point in the (10)
Megan: Oh my goodness.
Mario: But do you guys prefer hot or cold
breakfasts?
Megan: Depends…
Mario: Tough one right?
Megan: Yeah! I think for me it depends on time of
day.
Megan: If it’s actually breakfast. It’s a bit
different.
Megan: Yeah, but if it’s really early in the (11)
, a nice bowl of cereal, and
just something refreshing in the morning,
but...
Mario: Yeah sure.
Megan: But I think later on, a nice hearty
something.
!
Laura: Pancakes! (12)
Megan: Definitely!
Laura: Yeah.
Top tip: how to listen
The most important thing to remember when listening to a conversation is that you
won’t understand every word. The important thing is to listen for the key words (the
most important words in the conversation: the nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.). Then, you
can use your intuition to fill in the gaps – just as you do in your own language. Knowing
the context and topic of the conversation will help with this.
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