7C Listening: Urban legends | Tiếng Anh 12 (Friends Global) | Unit 7: Media - Lớp 12 - Giáo Dục Việt Nam

1 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.

1 Do you enjoy scary films, stories or fairground rides?

2 Do you find any of these things scary?

dogs    heights    large crowds    snakes    spiders    water

2 🔊3.03 Read the definition of an urban legend, then listen to the story. What happened? Did you like it?

3 🔊3.03 Read the Listening Strategy. Listen again to the first part of the story. Pay attention to the extracts (1-4) and match each extract with one of the adjectives below. There are two extra adjectives.

angry    enthusiastic    nervous    patient. patient     sarcastic    surprised

1 Max A horror story. Great, lan. They're so interesting

2 Jill Oh shush, Max. Fantastic! How scary is it?

3 Ian Well, whatever. I'm not saying it isn't true. It could easily be true.

4 Caro Oh, dear. I don't like this story already.

4 🔊3.04 Read the Pronunciation box. Then listen carefully to the examples. Repeat them, copying the intonation.

5 🔊3.05 Listen to the examples from the story. Match them with the rules in the Pronunciation box.

1 Caro Well, I think I like horror stories.

2 Max Oh, yeah. It's so scary.

3 Jill I quite like this kind of story.

4 Caro She shouldn't get out of the car.

6 🔊3.06 Listen to the sentences (1-6). Choose the correct meaning (a or b).

1 I enjoyed the story.

a qualifying

b a statement

2 Brilliant. It's snowing.

a enthusiastic

b sarcastic

3 You'll love it.

a sarcastic

b expecting agreement

4 This is the road home.

a expecting disagreement

b expecting agreement

5 This is nice.

a qualifying

b statement

6 Oh, great. Just what we need.

a enthusiastic

b sarcastic

7 🔊3.07 Listen to the interview. Choose the correct answers (a-d).

1 Dr Miriam Webster

a is a professor of urban myths and legends.

b studies urban legends with her students.

c writes down urban legends in her spare time.

d is the author of many different urban legends.

2 The presenter thinks that urban legends

a generally seem unpleasant.

b are very charming.

c are always a fantasy.

d put you in a good mood.

3 Dr Webster says that an urban legend

a is based on a traditional fairy story.

b is nearly always written down.

c generally has a single source.

d has many different versions.

4 Urban legends are popular because

a most ordinary people like to be shocked or scared.

b they are better than Hollywood blockbuster films.

c humans have a need for turning life events into stories.

d generally people don't read novels much any more.

8 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Do you have urban legends in Viet Nam? Find a story and make notes for it. Share your story with another pair's.