Tuesday 17 March 2015

Offside (fuera de juego) _ Listening Int 1


Listen to the second part of the programme (2:28'- 4:42') and complete the statements:
1. Mark Kermode, the critic, has never understood the kind of _________________________(2) for football.


2. The director of the film shows that sense of wanting to be part of this type of _______________________ ______(2)

Now listen to people’s opinions:

3. The first man thinks that it was one of the best films he had seen _______________________ (2)

4. The second woman thinks that it was funny, endearing and it made a really _______________________________ (2).

5. The last woman found it interesting because, although it was a heavy subject, there were ___________________________ (2). 

Now click on this link to read the transcript and correct your answers:

Enjoy the long weekend!

10 comments:

jose said...

Hello everybody

I did the listening and it could have been worse. The first statement was impossible for me. I made a mistake, I wrote "collecting" and it was collective.

Have a nice day

JOSE

Unknown said...

Hi María,
I want to send you the first part of the listening and tomorrow the second part of the listening where I suppose it will be the answers of the exercise and at the end my mistakes.
BBC learning English ( )
Hello, I’m Carl ( ) and this is an entertainment. In today’s programme, we focus on the language of talking about films, and it was captain we’re be looking and reviews on a new film based on a World Cup qualification match. The film is called Offside and is by Iranian director ( ) ( ). The film is about a group of women football fans in Iran; who want to go and watch World Cup qualifications match between their country Iran and Bahrain. However, because in Iran women aren’t allowed to attend male sporting events, they have to try different ways of getting into the stadium. They try different discussing; but they’re stopped seeing the match by soldiers, who keep in a room, where they can hear but not see the match. The film is not in English language, it doesn’t have any big international stars and there aren’t explosions and special effects. It’s not typical of the summer blog busters from Hollywood, and maybe because of this; it’s proof of it to be quite popular, with the critics and the public. Mark Kemode is one of the BBC films reviews and he isn’t a football fan, but he did like the film. It is what he said about it.
It’s really terrific, number of lovely things about it. The first thing It’s genuinely gentle but in a melancholic and insightful way.
He says it’s terrific, he thinks is really good, and there are some lovely things about it. He comments the film is gentle, which means that it’s an easy film to watch, there are strong and angry conflicts. He also says it has a melancholy film, it’s lately sad, and it’s also insightful. Insightful is chooses a good understanding of the situation. He also says even he isn’t a football fan, he still enjoy the film, in fact he says he doesn’t get football. He doesn’t get it. This means that he doesn’t understand it; he doesn’t know why it’s so popular or makes people feel the way they do. Does watching this film happen to understand this at all? It’s Mark Kemode again. The reason I like it is somebody, who genuine it hasn’t had interest in football, doesn’t get football I never got it; I never got it. I never got the kind the national enthusiastic for it; I never go why is the people so exciting watching offside, and actually I felt that I understood at least a little bit more; what that was about, because he does brilliantly; as a the director is to show you that sense of wanted to be part of this part of collecting event, which is I ( ) so good.
So yes, he said that watching the film, help to understand what is liked to be a football fan. What is like to want to be involved in a group event, which is described as a ( ) for good.

Unknown said...

Hi María,
here is the rest of the listening, may be this afternoon after going the swimming pool or perhaps tomorrow; I'll send you the answers and my mistakes, because the listening had been very hard, and many parts of it I had to listen second by second.
BBC learning English Telecom
There were the views of the critic, the review are, but what about others who are seen the film for the own entertainment, what do they think. Here there are a few opinions; how to people describe the film and the reaction to it:
I think is one of the best films I’ve seen in ages; I really, really enjoy it.
Oh I really enjoy it, I thought it’s funny, endearing and it made a really serious points.
I thought the film was excellent, I like Iranian films and this particular film was a quite heavy subject, but there were funny bits, and so even your might; oh you know this is very difficult subject to talk about it in the film, it approached in a very light high; it’s in a very gentle way.
Very positive view that. The first speaker commented that it was the best film, it’s seen in ages; the best film in a long time. It was also described as funny and endearing. Endearing means charming and very likeable; and this view is accord by the third speaker who commented that even although a heavy subject and serious and difficult topic; it was stand in a light high it and gentle way. Light high it is useful adjective to describe films which are funny. That’s all for this edition of entertainment; before we go some final recommendations for the film Offside. Our recommendations it’s absolutely anybody. Yes a good recommend this film is short, and don’t have to be a football fan to enjoy it; and if you like watching films from different countries, around the world. It’s a really good film starts with. Our recommendation this films to everybody specially this time when the football fans are going all around the world having a great time.
BBC learning English Telecom

Greetings

Unknown said...

Hi Maria,
As I said yesterday I'm going to send you my answers and my mistakes.
My answers

1. national enthusiastic
2. collecting event
3. in ages
4. serious points
5. funny bits
It's clear that when I've read the article the second answer is wrong I think the rest are well.
And now my mistakes in the listening there're a lot. What is wrong is in strong red and I hate the punctuation marks. This time I put a lot that in the article there aren't and the last one you said to me I had to put more uuufff.
BBC learning English ( )
Hello, I’m Callum ( Roberson ) and this is an Entertainment. In today’s programme, we focus on the language of talking about films. And it’s was captain we’re going to be looking and reviews on a new film based on a World Cup qualification match.
The film is called Offside and is by Iranian director (Jafar) ( Panai ). The film is about a group of women football fans in Iran; who want to go and watch a World Cup qualifications match between their country, Iran and Bahrain. However, because in Iran women aren’t allowed to attend male sporting events, they have to try different ways of getting into the stadium. They try different discussing; but they’re stopped from seeing the match by soldiers, who keep them in a room, where they can hear, but not see the match.
The film is not in the English language, it doesn’t have any big international stars and there aren’t explosions and special effects. It’s not typical of the summer blog busters from Hollywood, and maybe because of this; it’s proof of it to be quite popular, with the critics and the public.
Mark Kemode is one of the BBC’s films reviews, and he isn’t a football fan, but he did like the film. It is what he said about it.
Mark Kemode
It’s really terrific, Number of lovely things about it. The first thing is, is that It’s genuinely gentle but in a melancholic and insightful way.
Callum
He says it’s terrific, he thinks is really good, and there are some lovely things about it. He comments that the film is gentle, which means that it’s an easy film to watch, there aren’t strong and angry conflicts. He also says it has a melancholy film, it’s lately sad, and it’s also insightful. Insightful is chooses a good understanding of the situation.
He also says that even though he isn’t a football fan, he still enjoyed the film, In fact he says he doesn’t get football. He doesn’t get it. This means that he doesn’t understand it; he doesn’t know why it’s so popular or makes people feel the way they do. Does watching this film happen him to understand this at all? It’s Mark Kemode again.
Mark Kemode
The reason I like it is as somebody, who genuine it hasn’t had any interest in football, doesn’t get football, I’ve never got it; I never got it. I never got the kind the national enthusiastic for it; I never got why it is the people get so exciting. watching offside, and actually I felt that I understood at least a little bit more; what that was about, because what he does brilliantly; as a the director is to show you that sense of wanted to be part of this part of collecting event, which is I (force ) so good.
Callum
So yes, he said that watching the film, helped him to understand what it is liked to be a football fan. What it is like to want to want to be involved in a group event, which is described as a (force) for good.

BBC learning English Telecom
There were the views of the critic, the reviewer are, but what about others who are seen the film for their own entertainment, what do they think? Here there are a few opinions; how to people describe the film and their reaction to it:
VOICES
I think is one of the best films I’ve seen in ages; I really, really enjoy it.
Oh I really enjoyed it, I thought it’s funny, endearing and yet it made a really serious points.
I don't know if you can see them but if you'd read the listening I sent to you I think is enough.
Have a good weekend
Greetings

Unknown said...

Hi,
Here they are my answers.
1-......
2- collecting event
3- in ages
4- serious point
5- funny bits
I have had 2 mistakes one of them because I didn't understand it and the second because I understood other word.

María Luisa Duque said...

Hello, my answers:

1.- (I didn't know...)
2.- I understood: Collected event (wrong; it's collective)
3.- in ages
4.- serious point
5.- funny bits


Have a good day,

MLDuque

Nusky said...

Hello everybody!
María, here my answers:
1- national enthusiasm.
2- collective event.
3- in ages.
4- serious point.
5- funny bits.

I have all right except the spelling of "bits".
Greetings.
Elena

Vero said...


Hi María,

I thought I didn't have to write my answers because I could correct it myself.

My answers are:

1-Nationals (...)
2-Collective (...)
3-In ages
4-Serious point
5-Funny best (I knew "best" is wrong but I wasn't able to understand well)

Listenings are my worst nightmare :-(

María - Teacher said...

Hello everybody!!!

Well done! I can see you are practising hard. You know hard work always pays off!!! ;-)

These are the answers, as you may have seen:

1. national enthusiasm
2. collective event
3. in ages
4. serious point.
5. funny bits

Well done, every body!!! Attention to word endings!

No problem, Vero. I know that you are very hard-working and determined!

See you later

Unknown said...

Hi María,
Thank you very much