GLEE ENGLISH TUTORING ADULTS 2021

LISTENING AND COMPREHENSION

ROBOTS http://www.listenaminute.com/r/robots.mp3

A long time ago, robots belongs to_____________ fiction. Children loved

looking at movies with robots. Today, robots are real, and they
are_______________us. In the future, we will all have robots. They will vacuum
the ________________, wash the_________________, even________________ our
cars. I even think one day we’ll have robot friends. In Japan today,
_______________are making robots to_______ old people and to keep
them____________. It’s still early days. I’d say we are another 20 to 30 years
away from robots being everywhere in______ lives. What will happen to us
when the world is full of robots? There’ll be no jobs. McDonalds will be full of
__________ ___________. Maybe one day we won’t be able to tell robots and
humans apart. Maybe they´ll take over the _________________.

WEATHER https://listenaminute.com/w/weather.mp3

The weather means different things to different __________. I come from

England, so the weather is always a big topic there. People in England can't
deal with the weather. A tiny bit of _________, and no one goes to work. Two
________ of thirty-degree temperatures and it's a ____________. Three days
and it's an emergency. I once lived in Dubai. No one really talked about the
weather there. It was the same almost every day of the _________. Hot,
_________, blue skies, no rain. I never looked at the weather forecast. I
always knew what the weather would be like. Not like in England where
people pray for the _________to be OK. But the weather is changing. Global
warming is making it __________ in the desert and dry in the rainforests

SEASON http://www.listenaminute.com/f/four_seasons.mp3

I’m not sure how many people ever stop to think how wonderful four
__________are. I think people who live in cities don’t care about the seasons.
City _______ spend half their lives indoors or underground. I live in the
country and I love watching the seasons come and go.________ is different in
the countryside. I love watching the crops grow in the fields. I watch them
push their way up from the ground in the______ and then grow tall in
the________ sun. Just before ________ arrives, the farmer harvests them and
then ________ comes. Seasons means it’s like living in a new place every four
months. Everything changes. One ________ thing about seasons is the
seasonal food you get. There’s always something tasty that’s just come in
season.
COSMETIC SURGERY https://listenaminute.com/c/cosmetic_surgery.mp3

Would you like to change your face and body? Would you like movie _____
looks? A lot of people want to do this. They pay lots of ______ to go to a
cosmetic surgeon and change their appearance. The most ________
operation we call a “nose job” . People who are unhappy with their______
have it reshaped. Other people want their wrinkles to disappear to make
themselves look ________. People also go under the knife and have things
made bigger or smaller. I think this is a waste of money. I'm not the best-
looking ________ in the world but I would never consider plastic surgery -
even if it was free. Some people have so many operations they end up
looking like they’re made of ________. I'd rather stay looking human

CLIMATE CHANGE https://listenaminute.com/c/climate_change.mp3

Climate change is one of the most worrying things for our _______. Many
politicians and scientists say it is the biggest _________ we face. I read
almost every day that climate change is changing the Earth forever. Many
species of animal, fish, ________, frog, etc. are dying. The ice caps in the
Arctic and Antarctica are melting. Our ___________ is changing so places are
getting warmer, or _________, or are having more and stronger ___________.
We all need to do our bit so that climate change does not destroy us. It’s
important to cut down on things that produce greenhouse gasses. These
warm the planet and _________ the climate. Doing simple things like turning
off lights and recycling paper all help.

HOME SCHOOL: https://listenaminute.com/h/home_school.mp3

I think home schooling is great. I wish my __________ had done this. The idea
of never going to school sounds too good to be _______. I hated school. I
wanted to stay at home every day. I really wouldn’t have minded staying at
home and studying. ___________, you need to be careful not to forget
studying. One thing about home schooling I like is visiting museums or
watching documentaries to learn _______. This is so much better than
learning in school. I think my learning at school suffered because there were
many_________ who didn’t want to learn. I could have got better marks if I
had stayed at _________. Perhaps there’ll be more home schooling in the
future because of the Internet.