In this section, you practise listening and taking notes. There are two listening exercises. First, you listen to a woman asking about a car that has been advertised and you then study some vocabulary for parts of cars. In the second listening extract, you hear a doctor talking about the causes of insomnia (sleeplessness) and how to deal with it. You then work on multi-word verbs which occur in the talk.
1 Enquiring about a car
You'll hear a woman phoning a man about a car which he wants to sell. Complete the notes which the woman makes. Write numbers where possible.
2 Parts of a car
Look at these extracts from the telephone conversation in Exercise 1. Match the label with the correct part of the car.
A picture of a car3 When you cannot sleep
You will hear a radio talk in which a doctor gives advice about what to do if you suffer from insomnia, in other words, you have difficulty sleeping. For questions 1-12, complete each of the sentences.
4 Multi-word verbs
Look at these extracts from the radio programme in Exercise 3 and then match the multi-word verbs on the left with their definition on the right.
5 Multi-word verbs in context
Now drag the missing verbs into the gaps in the paragraph below.
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