3. Eli: I like the variety of living in a dorm, you can eat in the cafeteria, or you can eat out with friends. There‘s always somebody in the next room or down the hall to do things with. And you can stay out as late as you want. But I must say it is kind of noisy and hard to get a lot of sleep.

4. Tracy: I like choosing my own schedule. I decide when I wake up, when I go to bed, when to study, and I can cook what I want to eat. I don‘t like having to clean and do my own laundry everyday, but if I don‘t, my room will be dirty, and I won‘t have any clean clothes.

Real World Listening

1 Predict

Answer

They will read, talk, think and go for long hikes.

2 Get the main ideas

Answers

1. This week‘s program‖ says there are computer classes. There are no computers.

2. Rule 2 says no reading books. This is wrong.

3. Guests do not stay in tents. They stay in an old hotel.4. Rule 4 says there is no TV after 10:00 p.m. There is no TV at all.

5. You don‘t go by train, you go to the island by boat.

Script

Kevin: Hey, Cathy, I found a good place for a vacation this summer.

Cathy: What is it?

Kevin: It‘s called Camp Star.

Cathy: Hmmm. Looks pretty. But what can you do there?

Kevin: It‘s kind of isolated.

Cathy: Isolated? What do you mean?

Kevin: It‘s off the coast, and you have to take a boat to get there. This week‘s program is that you hike and hear lectures and talk about current issues.

Cathy: Where do you stay? Tents?

Kevin: No, it‘s an old hotel. They have a couple of rules, though.

Cathy: Uh-huh…

Kevin: It says here there‘s no TV and you can‘t use any electrical appliances.

Cathy: No TV? And no electrical…Wait a minute. What about my notebook computer?

Kevin: No, no computers, and there‘s only one telephone on the whole island.

Cathy: What? So I won‘t be able to check my e-mail either?

Kevin: You‘ll get by. It‘ll be fun! Look, you can read, and talk, and think. And every morning you go for a long hike.

Cathy: Ahh. Sounds like work.

Kevin: I think it would be relaxing. I‘d like to get away from the phone for a week. And I think it‘d be good for you.

Cathy: So you‘re telling me there‘s no TV, no computers, and I have to wake up every morning to go hiking. Why on earth would anybody want to go there?

Unit 11 They lost my luggage!

Vocabulary Task

Answers/Script

1. Your attention, please. Flight 275 to Miami will be delayed for two hours.

2. I‘m sorry, there are no window seats left. Would you like an aisle seat?

3. Uh-oh, I think I left my carry-on bag on the plane.

4. Your passport has expired. You can‘t leave the country. 5. Aagh! I waited for over an hour in the wrong line

6. Excuse me. I left. My ticket at home. Can I get a replacement?

7. My suitcase is not here at the baggage claim.

8. I‘m sorry, all our economy seats are sold out. How about business class?

9. Too much luggage? But I only have three suitcases.