Ful and -less Pronunciation

host:

  So did she get to her new office?

Dr.:

  She did. I went to her office on the tenth floor and 

called her. I suggested she go into the elevator. She went 

Close listening

Ask the students to study the Listening for problems and 

solutions box. Write Problems and Solutions on the board 

and build up a map around them. With books closed, 

ask students for the phrases. Write them in the correct 

place on the map. Add Listen critically as the third main 

feature of the map, and elicit the key point from the 

box (listen for well-supported reasons / arguments).

Direct students to the words in the Academic keywords 

box. Ask them to use their monolingual dictionaries 

to check the meaning. Then have the students write 

the words in their vocabulary notebooks.

1

  Give students time to read the questions before 

listening to the audio, and then time to discuss 

their answers with a partner. Then have students 

check their answers with the whole class.

move her office from the first floor in her building up to the 

tenth floor. She was certain that the elevator would break 

while she was inside and she’d run out of air, or the 

elevator would fall. Her friends tried to reason with her, 

but it was pointless. She had a strong fear of elevators.