Overheard Let’s listen: Sidewalks, mansions, and skyscrapers

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1 Let’s listen: Sidewalks, mansions, and skyscrapers a) Every week DJ Ray from ‘Sunrise NY’ chats with people in Central Park. Today he is talking to a house-sitter, a Mohawk steelworker and a sidewalk painter. Match the pictures to the information in the texts. Follow the example:

Example: I think picture 1 is the … because I can see … .

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b) Now listen to the interviews and write notes.

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Name Where from? Job likes doesn’t like Karim Laurie Jack

c) Use your notes and talk about Karim, Laurie and Jack. Start like this: Karim is from the Bronx. He … .

72 2 Sounds: British or American English? a) Listen to the words. b) Now listen to the sentences. Which speaker is American and which one is English?

Speaker 1 is … . Speaker 2 is … .

73 3 Let’s listen to a song: Time to move on

Tom Petty from the album “wildflowers” It’s time to move on, time to get going What lies ahead I have no way of knowing But under my feet, baby, grass is growing It’s time to move on, it’ s time to get going Broken skyline, movin’ through the airport She’s an honest defector Conscientious objector Now her own protector Broken skyline, which way to love land Which way to something better Which way to forgiveness Which way do, I go It’s time to move on, time to get going What lies ahead I have no way of knowing But under my feet, baby, grass is growing It’s time to move on, it’s time to get going Sometime later, getting the words wrong Wasting the meaning, and losing the rhyme Nauseous adrenaline Like breakin’ up a dog fight Like a deer in the headlights Frozen in real time I’m losing my mind It’s time to move on, time to get going What lies ahead I have no way of knowing But under my feet, baby, grass is growing It’s time to move on, it’s time to get going