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b Help the passenger buy his/her ticket.
b Buy your ticket.
Although this particular example is culture-specific (British English, using English locations 
and destinations), the technique of matching what students hear to pictures can be used in 
many different ways at many different levels. Booking and buying tickets take place in all 
languages and cultures, too.
Example 3: prerecorded authentic interview-narrative (upper intermediate)
In this example, for upper-interm ediate level, students are going to hear two excerpts 
from a recorded authentic interview. However, in both cases the interviewee often replies 
to the interviewer by telling stories rather than just giving short answers. These excerpts 
are considerably longer than lower-level listening texts - and unlike the live listening in 
Example 1, students will not have the opportunity to interact with the interviewee. It is, 
therefore, especially im portant that they are both fully engaged with what is going on and 
also ready to listen.
This interview is notable, too, in that the interviewee is a speaker of Indian English - an 
im portant world variety, and therefore one which students of English as an International 
Language (see page 80) should be comfortable with.
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Chapter 10
Students are first shown the picture on the 
right and asked to speculate about who the person 
is, where she’s from, what she does, etc. They then 
look at the following questions before they hear 
her speak:
a 
W hat happened at the station in Mumbai 
(then called Bombay), and how much 
money did Diana have w ith her? 
b 
How did Diana try to get accom modation 
in Mumbai? 
c 
W hat time was it on Diana’s watch when 
she knocked on the lady’s door?