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Listening Safety Tips and Vocabulary

This document provides listening tips and contains two listening passages to practice filling in blanks with the words heard. The first passage discusses safety topics like locking doors, grabbing something, running away, catching someone, arresting someone, breaking in, stealing, watching out, and robbing. The second passage discusses gun usage in Latin American crimes, following local authorities' advice, not displaying expensive jewelry, going on organized tours with guides who speak the local language in India, and not going with strangers. The document emphasizes listening carefully and using context clues to fill in the blanks.

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Topics covered

  • jewelry safety,
  • Latin America,
  • safety tips,
  • travel groups,
  • arrest procedures,
  • vocabulary building,
  • local laws,
  • travel warnings,
  • safety education,
  • safety workshops
213 views10 pages

Listening Safety Tips and Vocabulary

This document provides listening tips and contains two listening passages to practice filling in blanks with the words heard. The first passage discusses safety topics like locking doors, grabbing something, running away, catching someone, arresting someone, breaking in, stealing, watching out, and robbing. The second passage discusses gun usage in Latin American crimes, following local authorities' advice, not displaying expensive jewelry, going on organized tours with guides who speak the local language in India, and not going with strangers. The document emphasizes listening carefully and using context clues to fill in the blanks.

Uploaded by

nguyen an
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

Topics covered

  • jewelry safety,
  • Latin America,
  • safety tips,
  • travel groups,
  • arrest procedures,
  • vocabulary building,
  • local laws,
  • travel warnings,
  • safety education,
  • safety workshops

WEEK 5

STAYING SAFE
L I S T E N I N G
OUTLINE
01 MATCHING

02 LISTENING
PART 1
M AT C H I N G
Fill the blank with the words you hear that match the definitions.

Lock
1. _______(v) to close a room or building using a key
Grab (v) to suddenly take hold of something with your
2. _______
hand

Run away
3. _________(phrasal verb) to leave a place suddenly; to
escape

Catch to hold somebody so that they can’t get away


4. ______(v)

Arrest when the police arrest somebody, they take them


5. ______(v)
to the police station
Fill the blank with the words you hear that match the
definitions.

6. Break in (phrasal verb ) to use force to get into a building, for


________
example in order to steal
Steal (v) to take something that is not yours
7. ________
Watch out (phrasal verb) to be careful and look around you for
8. __________
possible danger
Keep (v) to always put something in a particular place
9. ________
Rob
10. ________ (v) to take a person’s money or other things from them
PART 2
LISTENING
Listen and fill the blanks with the answers you hear.

Right, now let's look at Latin America and of course you do realize that
not all Latin American countries are the same but it is true to size that
guns
1/_______are percentage of crimes across the region
used in a high 2/__________
looking at the figures it seems that gun crime is a serious problem
throughout I can see some of you are thinking that it all sounds
3/____________.
rather dangerous but lots of people who've been there and had a really
authorities like making sure
great time they followed advice from the 4/___________
expensive jewellry in the street and I would
they didn't wear 5/___________________
certainly advise anyone travelling to Latin America to do the same.
Okay, so now I'll finish by talking a little bit about India, I've
actually been to India and I didn't have any feeling that it was
organized tour
dangerous at all. First of all I went on an 7/______________
6/___________
with a group of people, this is definitely the best way to go
safer
because it's so much 8/_________, I mean I didn't get anywhere
without the group and we had a tour guide who spoke the
local language and knew the area. In fact, I remembered
9/________
strangers even if
now, she warned us not to go off with 10/___________
they seem nice and friendly but again you wouldn't do that at
home either, would you?.
Some tips for better
listening:

 Guess first from the context

 Check for silly mistakes

 Pay attention to word types


Thank you

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