Speaking Unit 4 Media

Focus on Part 1 of the IELTS Speaking Test

WARM-UP

1. Work with a partner. Ask each other:

What is your favourite television programme? Why do you like it?

2. There are different types of movies and television programmes. Continue to work with your partner and think of examples of movies or television programmes that match each of the types below. The first one has been done for you.

3. Ask your partner:

Which type of movie or television programme do you prefer? And why?

VOCABULARY

PRONUNCIATION

4. Listen to the audio and mark the stressed syllable in each word or phrase in the columns above. Some phrases have two stressed syllables.

5. Listen again and repeat making sure you say the stressed syllables louder and longer.

6. Listen to the following chant. Listen again and repeat (on the audio there is a pause after each line.) Make sure your pronunciation is correct.

Funny, funnier, funniest　Scary, scarier, scariest

The funniest show on TV　The scariest show on TV

This *programme’s the funniest　This *programme’s the scariest

The best one for you to see.　The worst one for you to see!

*programme’s = programme is

7. Listen to the following sentence on the audio and repeat.

Notice that than and as are weak and are pronounced / ðən / and / əz /.

Other words have a strong stress such as: News, Weather, isn’t, Sports.

Notice also that many words are linked.˘

The News˘is more interesting than the weather, but˘it˘isn’t˘as˘interesting as˘a sports programme.

8. Listen to these similar sentences and repeat. Pay attention to sentence stress and linking.

a. A comedy is more exciting than a documentary, but it isn’t as exciting as a horror movie.

b. A quiz is more educational than the weather, but it isn’t as educational as a documentary.

c. A quiz is funnier than a documentary, but it isn‘t as funny as a comedy.

d. A documentary is more boring than the news, but it isn’t as boring as the weather.

e. A movie is more relaxing than a sports programme, but it isn’t as relaxing as a music programme.

f. An action movie is scarier than the news, but it isn’t as scary as a horror movie.

GRAMMAR

9. Make sentences about each of the following pictures using the adjectives given and the comparison language above.

Adjectives: tall / young

Example: May is as tall as Lin, but she’s taller than Jon.

Jon is younger than May and Lin. He’s the youngest of them all.

Lin is younger than May, but she isn’t as young as Jon.

a. Adjectives: short / old

b. Adjectives: modern / old fashioned / popular

c.Adjectives: interesting / educational

d. Adjectives: exciting / amusing / scary

Put it all together

10. In pairs, ask each other the following questions and fill in the gaps with your own answers.