The document provides listening exercises to practice filling in gaps of a news article. It includes reading a news piece with blanks and listening to a recording to fill in the blanks. It tests vocabulary like "funeral" and filling in blanks related to a plane crash in Russia where the president was killed. The blanks are filled in and the passage is listened to again to check the answers.

1. Unit 3: Creating Listening Expectation *********************** **************

2.  Watch the following video clip and say what it is about:

3.  Read the following piece of news, taken from bbclearningenglish.com, and guess what word can be used to fill in each gap: The pavement in front of President Kaczynski's palace in (1)……….. Warsaw has nearly disappeared from sight, covered now with thousands of small glass pots (2)……..... candles laid as a mark of respect. The president's body has been brought back from (3)………. and is due to lie in state later today. More details of the funeral arrangements are expected over the (4)………. day or so. Poland's health minister has (5) ……….that only 14 of the 96 victims of Saturday's air (6)……… in Russia are identifiable. Crash investigators say data from the flight recorders appear to show there was no technical fault on the (7)……….., suggesting pilot error may have been a factor (8)……… the crash. * Vocabulary: - funeral (n.): a ceremony for burying or burning someone who has died.

4.  Listen and fill in each gap with the word you hear: The pavement in front of President Kaczynski's palace in (1)……….. Warsaw has nearly disappeared from sight, covered now with thousands of small glass pots (2)……..... candles laid as a mark of respect. The president's body has been brought back from (3)………. and is due to lie in state later today. More details of the funeral arrangements are expected over the (4)………. day or so. Poland's health minister has (5) ……….that only 14 of the 96 victims of Saturday's air (6)………. in Russia are identifiable. Crash investigators say data from the flight recorders appear to show there was no technical fault on the (7)……….., suggesting pilot error may have been a factor (8)……… the crash.

5.  Listen again and check: The pavement in front of President Kaczynski's palace in (1) Warsaw has nearly disappeared from sight, covered now with thousands of small glass pots (2) candles laid as a mark of respect. The president's body has been brought back from (3) and is due to lie in state later today. More details of the funeral arrangements are expected over the (4) day or so. Poland's health minister has (5) that only 14 of the 96 victims of Saturday's air (6) in Russia are identifiable. Crash investigators say data from the flight recorders appear to show there was no technical fault on the (7) , suggesting pilot error may have been a factor (8) the crash. central containing Russia next said crash in plane