Unit 3 Section 3: Out and about with Habib

This is the third in the series with Habib. He talks about his job, what is involved and why he is a self-employed taxi driver.

Use your listening skills to correct mistakes and answer questions. You can then read an email from Habib, answer questions and write your own email. You will also have the opportunity to discuss and voice your opinions on the ESOL Nexus website. Most of all, you will be able to learn what it’s like to be a self-employed taxi driver in the UK. Please read ‘Before you listen’ first.

Before you listen

How to get the best from the activity:

It is a good idea to have a dictionary so that you can find the meanings to new words. It is also very helpful to have a pen/pencil and notebook. You can write lists of words or phrases you have learned. You can then practise the new words/phrases. If you practise a lot, you will remember them!

Before you listen, you can choose to learn the easier way or the harder way.

The easier way:

Look at the activities before you listen.
Use a dictionary to find meanings of words you don’t understand.
Then listen to the interview.
Listen to parts of the interview separately.
Listen to the interview for as many times as you need to.
Read the transcript after you have listened.
Then do the activities.

The harder way:

Listen to the interview.
Only listen to the whole interview once.
Do the activities.

If you prefer, you can download a printable version of the activities, the answers to the activities and a transcript of the recording.

Printable Version

Answers

Transcript

Preparation

In this section of the interview, Habib talks about his everyday working life.

Before listening, think about these questions:

What kind of hours does a taxi driver work?
How wide an area would a taxi driver typically cover?
How does a taxi driver get customers?

Listen to the recording of Habib. Does he mention anything you thought of?

Habib Section 3 by ESOL Nexus

Try task 1 before listening again.

Task 1 - listening: true or false

Listen to the audio on working patterns and complete the true/false quiz.

Habib Section 3 by ESOL Nexus

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Task 3 - listening: key vocabulary

The next activity focuses on some key vocabulary. Can you complete the gap-fill with the correct word for each gap?

Habib Section 3 by ESOL Nexus

Click on the tab below to read the transcript or download a printable transcript here.

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Task 3 - wordsearch

See how many words you can find in the word search activity below. All the words are from this section of the recording and come up in the questions above or in the transcript.

After you have finished the activity, choose some 4 words from the word search game and write a sentence with each one.

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Transcript

Trudie: So, what area, so you’re in London, but what area do you cover? How wide an area?

Habib: Yes, the area that we’re covering is Archway, Holloway, Camden, Kentish Town, Highgate.

Trudie: So what’s that a radius of, do you think? 10 miles, is it?

Habib: It’s about…no, it’s about 6 miles all round.

Trudie: OK What’s the longest journey you’ve been on?

Habib: Well we do a lot. Airports I’ve been once Birmingham.

Trudie: That’s a long way. That person must have been very rich!

Habib: Oh yeah.

Trudie: Can you tell me about what happens in a typical day? Do you work in the day?

Habib: I’m doing night.

Trudie: Ah, so could you run me through, talk me through what happens in a shift? You do a shift, yeah?

Habib: Yeah. You meet different kind of people, a (lot) drunk people, especially weekend.

Trudie: Oh, drunk people.

Habib: Yeah. It’s OK.

Trudie: It’s OK?

Habib: Yeah.

Discussion

Don’t forget to try the other activities in this series. There is much more to learn about with Habib, why not try the next unit:

Unit 4: Likes, dislikes and advice

Alternatively, you could find out about Laura, a self-employed cleaner.

For more information about becoming self-employed, go to Unit 1.

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Unit 3 Section 3: Out and about with Habib

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