Listening Comedy: Buying Property [Alan Carr]

This is a listening and speaking activity which would best suit upper intermediate and advanced classes. It is a short sketch by Alan Carr at the Apollo where he's talking about buying a property and how rough the area was. The worksheet pre-teaches unfamiliar vocabulary and phrases and then there is a listening comprehension section too. This allows the teacher and students to discuss subtleties of humour which might have been missed. There is a lot of interesting vocabulary and many of my students were advanced, but still hadn't heard some of the phrases. At the end, there are questions for students to discuss which focus more on buying property and the social issues that affect this in heir countries.