BFI C1 - 18/11/2019

Today's lesson:

Listening & speaking: "Pointless training courses"

  > listening: "Heart London - Beat the Internet"

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Homework:

- Next week we're going to watch a video on the topic of learning a foreign language. To prepare, please think about the following: What's the best way for a beginner to learn a new language?

Beat the Internet – Pointless Training Courses

Thank you for (1)___________________ me this evening. You’re listening to Heart with Sean Welby, and I’m gonna liven up your (2) ___________________  ___________________ now. It’s time to play Beat the Internet. If you’re (3) ___________________  to my show, this is where I find a story that’s currently (4) ___________________the rounds, and I challenge you to tell me a (5) ___________________  ___________________.

Now, tonight  (6) ___________________  ___________________  this story from the Metro Online, this is the headline:

“Council Charges People for Course on How to Wear Shoes and Carry Handbags”

Now, I’m not even kidding, this is a genuine course, it’s a three-hour course, it’ll cost (7) ___________________  ___________________  ___________________ and you’re gonna learn on how to wear accessories. The seminar will identify what accessories would work best for you and experiment with alternative approaches.

Now (8) ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ probably more to this than it sounds, but (9) ______________________________________, I think most of us know how to put shoes on (10) ______________________________________ carry a bag. So here’s my question:

Can you beat the Internet?

Is that headline (11) ___________________  ___________________  ___________________ bells? Cause I feel like throughout our lifetime, (12) ______________________________________  jobs we’ve had, we have at some point been sent on a pointless training course. If you have, and you wanna tell me about it, (13) ______________________________________ 82122.

It could be something as ridiculous as “How to Answer a Phone”, or “How to Use a Chair”. I’m not even kidding, here at Heart we got a new hot tap, (14) ______________________________________________________________ training. That, I’m not joking, we did!

82122, text me, what is the most pointless training course you have ever been on? Leave your name, I’ll give you a call back, and we can have a bit of a giggle this Thursday evening. And while we’re trying to beat the Internet, (15) _________________________________________________________  top tunes, Niall Horan – Slow Hands, and Kygo and Whitney coming up on Heart next.

London’s Heart

Recorded from Heart London. Task 2019 by Bernie Zöttl; key: 1 joining 2 night shift 3 new 4 doing 5 better one 6 I’ve taken 7 15 quid to attend 8 I’m sure there’s 9 at the end of the day 10 and how to 11 just ringing a few 12 in all the different 13 text me on 14 and we had to have tap 15 I’m gonna line up some