Listening Starter 1

LISTENING STARTER 1

ANSWER KEY

Unit 1

Vocabulary Preview

1. b 2. a 3. b

Key Expressions

1. a 2. c 3. b

Dialog 1

1. b 2. b

1. Excuse 2. office 3. help 4. first 5. day

6. Jones 7. Smith 8. Room 9. 114 10. welcome

Dialog 2

1. T 2. F 3. T

1. d 2. c 3. a 4. b 5. e

Note-Taking

1. Mary Jones 2. Mrs. Smith 3. Sam

Questions and Answers

1. b. Sam 2. a. science / b. science, Miss Lee

3. a. class / b. Classroom 114 4. a. math

Quiz

A. 1. B 2. D 3. A 4. C

B. 5. a 6. b

C. 7. F 8. F

D. 9. b 10. b

Homework

1. May I help you?

2. What’s your name?

3. Welcome to my class.

4. My math teacher is Mr. Brown.

5. The desk is empty.

6. My name is Sam.

7. Where is your teacher?

8. I am in Classroom 501.

9. Do you like English?

10. Nice to meet you.

Unit 2

Vocabulary Preview

1. c 2. b 3. b

Key Expressions

1. b 2. c 3. a

Dialog 1

1. a 2. b

1. class 2. Mary 3. family 4. younger 5. six

6. one 7. father 8. teacher 9. mother 10. doctor

Dialog 2

1. c

1. d 2. f 3. a 4. c 5. e

Note-Taking

1. No brothers or sisters

2. One older brother

Questions and Answers

1. a. younger brother / b. Sam

2. a. Mary / b. 12

3. a. Mary / b. April

4. a. older brothers / b. three

Quiz

A. 1. C 2. D 3. A 4. B

B. 5. b 6. a

C. 7. F 8. T

D. 9. b 10. b

Homework

1. I am 11 years old.

2. She has one older brother.

3. Her father is a teacher.

4. How old are you?

5. My favorite sport is baseball.

6. I live with my parents.

7. It’s March 15th.

8. She is a doctor.

9. Do you have a brother or sister?

10. My birthday is in October.

Unit 3

Vocabulary Preview

1. b 2. c 3. c

Key Expressions

1. c 2. b 3. a

Dialog 1

1. a 2. b

1. studying 2. math 3. don’t 4. math 5. difficult

6. like 7. Math 8. interesting 9. homework 10. afternoon

Dialog 2

1. F 2. F 3. F

1. e 2. f 3. b 4. a 5. d

Note-Taking

History, lots of history homework, to be a history teacher

Questions and Answers

1. b. math 2. b. at home

3. a. Peter, science / b. He, boring

4. a. schedule / b. It, difficult

Quiz

A. 1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C

B. 5. a 6. c

C. 7. T 8. F

D. 9. a 10. b

Homework

1. Math is difficult.

2. I am studying English.

3. History is boring.

4. Me, too.

5. I really like that class.

6. When is your science class?

7. Mary doesn’t like math.

8. How is your class schedule?

9. I have lots of homework.

10. What do you like studying most?

Unit 4

Vocabulary Preview

1. b 2. a 3. c

Key Expressions

1. b 2. a 3. c

Dialog 1

1. b 2. b

1. lunch 2. hungry 3. lunch 4. Today 5. spaghetti

6. good 7. favorite 8. don’t 9. Really 10. Tomorrow

Dialog 2

A. Friday

1. a 2. c 3. d 4. b 5. f

Note-Taking

Spaghetti Monday / Thursday

Pizza Tuesday

Chicken and Rice Wednesday

Hamburgers Friday

Questions and Answers

1. a. today / b. A sandwich

2. a. breakfast / b. the kitchen

3. a. starving / b. fried chicken

4. a. eggs

Quiz

A. 1. B 2. C 3. A 4. D

B. 5. b 6. a

C. 7. F 8. T

D. 9. b 10. a

Homework

1. What’s for lunch on Thursday?

2. I’m hungry.

3. There is pizza on the menu.

4. Let’s eat in the cafeteria.

5. Today is pizza day.

6. Don’t you like fried chicken?

7. My favorite lunch is spaghetti.

8. We have hamburgers on Friday.

9. What’s on the lunch menu?

10. I don’t like spaghetti.

Unit 5

Vocabulary Preview

1. b 2. a 3. a

Key Expressions

1. b 2. c 3. a

Dialog 1

1. b 2. a

1. doing 2. fun 3. game 4. play 5. easy

6. Sure 7. teach 8. What 9. choose 10. color

Dialog 2

1. T 2. F 3. T

1. e 2. d 3. f 4. b 5. a

Note-Taking

Today / First game / Second game / Next time
Learned new game / lost / won / teach my favorite card game

Questions and Answers

1. a. games / b. chess and backgammon

2. a. see this movie / b. No, boring

3. a. play games / b. afternoon

4. a. listen to CDs / b. On the bus

Quiz

A. 1. C 2. B 3. D 4. A

B. 5. a 6. c

C. 7. F 8. T

D. 9. a 10. a

Homework

1. We’re playing a game.

2. Is it easy?

3. I can teach you.

4. What are you doing?

5. Sure.

6. I love to play this game.

7. I don’t know.

8. Do you want to play?

9. She likes card games.

10. They play games every night.

Unit 6

Vocabulary Preview

1. c 2. a 3. b

Key Expressions

1. a 2. c 3. b

Dialog 1

1. b 2. a

1. Where 2. home 3. live 4. live 5. really

6. near 7. on 8. neighbors 9. walk 10. together

Dialog 2

A. Pam and Sam

1. b 2. e 3. f 4. a 5. d

Note-Taking

Lake Street, Pam

Questions and Answers

1. a. live / b. live, Forest Avenue

2. a. going / b. To the supermarket

3. b. the park

4. a. neighbor / b. Bill, neighbor

Quiz

A. 1. D 2. B 3. C 4. A

B. 5. b 6. a

C. 7. T 8. T

D. 9. b 10. a

Homework

1. OK. Let’s go.

2. We are neighbors.

3. I live near the park.

4. Our houses are near each other.

5. Where are you going?

6. Let’s walk home together!

7. Where do you live?

8. We walk home together after school.

9. I live on Lake Street.

10. I’m going to the supermarket.

Unit 7

Vocabulary Preview

1. a 2. b 3. c

Key Expressions

1. c 2. a 3. b

Dialog 1

1. a 2. a

1. was 2. good 3. did 4. went 5. library

6. 3:30 7. practice 8. four 9. get 10. minutes

Dialog 2

1. F 2. F 3. F

1. d 2. f 3. e 4. c 5. a

Note-Taking

2. library

4. piano practice

5. home

Questions and Answers

1. a. your day / b. Not bad

2. b. my friend’s

3. a. your friend’s / b. home

4. b. 3:30

Quiz

A. 1. A 2. D 3. B 4. C

B. 5. c 6. a

C. 7. T 8. F

D. 9. b 10. b

Homework

1. I had a busy day.

2. When did you get home?

3. My day was pretty good.

4. I went to the library.

5. Then, I went to practice.

6. I’m a little tired.

7. Not bad.

8. How was your day?

9. What did you do?

10. I got home a few minutes ago.

Unit 8

Vocabulary Preview

1. a 2. a 3. b

Key Expressions

1. b 2. a 3. c

Dialog 1

1. b 2. b

1. weather 2. raining 3. like 4. rain 5. clear

6. up 7. weather 8. sunny 9. really 10. sunny

Dialog 2

A. Sunny

1. f 2. e 3. a 4. c 5. b

Note-Taking

When / Does she like the weather?
rains a lot / spring / No
clears up / summer / Yes

Questions and Answers

1. b. really nice

2. a. spring / b. I don’t

3. a. now / b. cloudy

4. a. season / b. fall

Quiz

A. 1. C 2. A 3. D 4. B

B. 5. b 6. b

C. 7. T 8. T

D. 9. a 10. a

Homework

1. My favorite season is summer.

2. It’s sunny.

3. I don’t like rain.

4. I really like sunny weather.

5. How’s the weather?

6. I think so.

7. Do you think it will rain?

8. The weather isn’t nice today.

9. I don’t, either.

10. It will clear up tomorrow.

Unit 9

Vocabulary Preview

1. a 2. b 3. b

Key Expressions

1. c 2. a 3. b

Dialog 1

1. b 2. b

1. weekend 2. terrific 3. mall 4. did 5. there

6. bought 7. computer 8. lucky 9. anywhere 10. bad

Dialog 2

1. F 2. F 3. T

1. f 2. a 3. e 4. d 5. c

Note-Taking

Sat. / Sun.
Where? / park / mall
Who? / friends / mom

Questions and Answers

1. a. weekend / b. busy

2. b. played games

3. a. on Saturday / b. will go to the mall

4. a. visited my grandparents / b. great

Quiz

A. 1. D 2. B 3. C 4. A

B. 5. a 6. c

C. 7. F 8. F

D. 9. a 10. b

Homework

1. She had a terrific weekend.

2. I didn’t go anywhere.

3. I had to stay home all day Saturday.

4. What will you do next weekend?

5. How was your weekend?

6. That’s too bad.

7. It was terrific.

8. I went to the mall.

9. What did you do?

10. He bought a new game.

Unit 10

Vocabulary Preview

1. b 2. c 3. a

Key Expressions

1. c 2. b 3. a

Dialog 1

1. b 2. b

1. Grandpa 2. money 3. welcome 4. party 5. fantastic

6. presents 7. get 8. cool 9. T-shirt 10. Jenny

Dialog 2

1. F 2. F 3. T

1. b 2. a 3.c 4. e 5. d

Note-Taking

From: / His sister / Sam / Pam
Present: / T-shirt / CD / computer game

Questions and Answers

1. a. birthday / b. birthday, in July

2. a. at the party / b. Only my parents

3. a. presents / b. lots of cool things

4. a. gift / b. You’re welcome

Quiz

A. 1. C 2. A 3. D 4. B

B. 5. a 6. c

C. 7. T 8. F

D. 9. b 10. b

Homework

1. My new CD is fantastic.

2. Thank you for the gift.

3. I got four presents.

4. I’m glad you like it.

5. How was your birthday party?

6. You’re welcome.

7. What presents did you get?

8. I got a cool T-shirt.

9. I got lots of cool gifts.

10. It was fantastic.

Unit 11

Vocabulary Preview

1. a 2. b 3. c

Key Expressions

1. c 2. b 3. a

Dialog 1

1. b 2. b

1. mall 2. guess 3. spend 4. money 5. birthday

6. know 7. coat 8. look 9.equipment 10. games

Dialog 2

1. F 2. T 3. F

1. f 2. e 3. b 4. c 5. a

Note-Taking

Who? / Bought?
Mary / shoes
Pam / ski hat
Sam / computer game

Questions and Answers

1. a. go to the mall / b. I guess so

2. a. look at / b. look at jewelry

3. a. buy / b. buy some gloves

4. a. books / b. Books-R-Us

Quiz

A. 1. D 2. C 3. B 4. A

B. 5. b 6. c

C. 7. F 8. F

D. 9. b 10. a

Homework

1. Let’s go after school.

2. I want to buy some clothes.

3. I want to look around.

4. What do you want to do there?

5. He is shopping for clothes.

6. Do you want to go to the mall?

7. I bought new shoes.

8. What do you want to buy?

9. I guess so.

10. Let’s go to the mall.

Unit 12

Vocabulary Preview

1. a 2. b 3. c

Key Expressions

1. c 2. a 3. b

Dialog 1

1. b 2. b

1. anywhere 2. vacation 3. nice 4. Wow 5. grandparents

6. going 7. visit 8. skiing 9. snowboard 10. cool

Dialog 2

1. T 2. F 3. T

1. b 2. a 3. e 4. c 5. d

Note-Taking

Who? 1 / Going to… 2 / Will learn… 3
Mary (Speaker) / Uncle’s house / to snowboard/snowboarding
Sam / Isn’t going anywhere / to ice skate/ice skating

Questions and Answers

1. a. anywhere / b. I’m not sure

2. b. cousin

3. a. For what holiday / b. for New Year’s Day

4. b. watch TV

Quiz

A. 1. B 2. A 3. C 4. D

B. 5. a 6. a

C. 7. T 8. F

D. 9. a 10. b

Homework

1. I’m not sure.

2. Because my sister lives there.

3. What are you going to do?

4. Are you going anywhere?

5. I’m going to learn to ice skate.

6. Why are you going to Germany?

7. Wow! It’s time for winter vacation!

8. I want to snowboard.

9. He will visit his grandparents.

10. I’m not going anywhere.