Listen to three people discussing 5 questions contained in the book Father Knows Less.

Order the
questions as you listen to the conversation (1-5).
_____ How many hairs are there on the human head?
_____ Why are the windows on ships always round?
_____ Why is there war?
_____ Why did The Beatles break up?
_____ What happens when a plane flies over a volcano?

Listen the conversation again and complete the gaps with words or phrases from the recording.
1. Ships windows are round because they are ________________ to break.
2. There are about ________________ on a human head.
3. When a plane flies over a volcano its engine ________________.
4. The Beatles broke up because they ________________ and wanted to ________________.
5. Four reasons for war are different ________________, a sense of honour, economic reasons and
________________.

Listen one last time and decide if the statements are True (T) or False (F).
1. The man in the conversation answers the first question correctly.
2. One of the women in the conversation thinks question two is silly.
3. The pilot Jamieson interviewed died in the volcano.
4. One of the women believes The Beatles broke up because they got old.
5. The man isnt surprised Yoko Ono replied to Jamieson.
6. Jamiesons son asked him about war after watching a violent videogame.
7. Most experts were able to give an answer to Why is there war?.
8. The man and the women believe the last questions is good.

Listen to three people discussing 5 questions contained in the book Father Knows Less. Order the
questions as you listen to the conversation (1-5).
_____ How many hairs are there on the human head?
_____ Why are the windows on ships always round?
_____ Why is there war?
_____ Why did The Beatles break up?
_____ What happens when a plane flies over a volcano?

Listen the conversation again and complete the gaps with words or phrases from the recording.
1. Ships windows are round because they are ________________ to break.
2. There are about ________________ on a human head.
3. When a plane flies over a volcano its engine ________________.
4. The Beatles broke up because they ________________ and wanted to ________________.
5. Four reasons for war are different ________________, a sense of honour, economic reasons and
________________.

Listen one last time and decide if the statements are True (T) or False (F).
1. The man in the conversation answers the first question correctly.
2. One of the women in the conversation thinks question two is silly.
3. The pilot Jamieson interviewed died in the volcano.
4. One of the women believes The Beatles broke up because they got old.
5. The man isnt surprised Yoko Ono replied to Jamieson.
6. Jamiesons son asked him about war after watching a violent videogame.
7. Most experts were able to give an answer to Why is there war?.
8. The man and the women believe the last questions is good.
Recording taken from A. Clare and JJ. Wilson (2015) Recording taken from A. Clare and JJ. Wilson (2015)
Speakout 2nd ed. Intermediate Pearson: UK Speakout 2nd ed. Intermediate Pearson: UK
To develop maturity

To stop working
Informal abbreviation
of I dont know
 To do something as
one pleases or wants
With a small
possibility of
A set of beliefs that
happening
influences the way people
behave