Msbs book dictation Activity Unit 1: The Olympics Listening Practice

MSBS BOOK 2 Dictation Activity

Unit 1: The Olympics
Listening Practice 1 (CD1, Track 1)
Sandy: Hello?
James: Hey, Sandy. It is James ______ ________. Did you _______ your _________ on the ________ of the Olympic Games?
Sandy: Yeah, I’ve _______ __________ it. Why? Do you have a __________, James?
James: I ___ actually. I was __________ if you ______ the date of the first _________ Summer __________ Games.
Sandy: Sure. The first _________ Summer ___________ Games were ______ in 1896.
James: Great! Now, _____ _______ the date of the first ________ Winter Olympics?
Sandy: Oh, I have it _______ ________. The first ________ Winter Olympics were held in 1924.
James: __________. Now, can you tell me the ______ _________ of both the Winter Games and the Summer Games?
Sandy: James! I am not going to ________ the _______ _____ you! Goodbye.


Listening Practice 2 (CD1, Track 2)
1) The first Summer __________ _______ ______ in Athens, Greece in 1896. Amongst 14 _____________ _________, the United States won the most _______. They took home 11 gold medals.
2) The ______ Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France in 1924. _________ 16 ___________ nations, ___________ won the most medals. They took home 4 _____ medals, 7 ________ medals, and 6 _________ medals.
3) The 24^th Summer ___________ were held in ________, Korea in 1988. Amongst 159 _____________ ________, the Soviet Union won the most medals. They took home 55 ______ _________, 31 _______ medals, and 46 _________ medals.
4) The 29^th Summer Olympics were held in _________, China in 2008. Amongst 204 participating nations, ________ won the _____ _______. They took home 51 gold medals, 21 _________ medals, and 28 _________ medals.


Listening Practice 3 (CD1, Track 3)
Hello, everyone. Good ____________. My name is James Richardson, and I am ______ the Olympics _____________. The topic of my __________ today is the ____________ ________ the Summer and Winter Olympics. I want to start by _________ there are two _______ ___ Olympic Games: Summer ___________ Games and Winter Olympic Games. First, I will talk about the Summer Olympic Games. The Summer Games are __________ than the Winter Games. In the Summer Games, over 200 countries __________. Also, there are more than 40 ___________ kinds of _________ _______. But the Winter Olympic Games are much ________ ______ the Summer Games. In the Winter Games, just ________ 80 countries ___________, and there are only 15 ________. ________ they are different, both the Summer and Winter Games are very __________ _____________.