1. Listen and choose the sentence that describes the main idea. Then explain why the other two are wrong.

A. It is about an accident and two people’s ideas of what happened.

B. It explains what a point of view is and gives an example of describing an accident.

C. It explains what a point of view is and asks you to explain an accident.

Sentence B is right.

Listen to Part 1 and answer the questions.

1. A point of view means one way of looking at things.

2. Because one person may not have seen everything that happened.

3. Because they each may have a different idea of the accident. Because they were in different places when the accident happened, they saw things differently.

Listen to Part 2 and complete the following tables.

Who do you think caused the accident? Write down your reason(s).

Listening text3

Part 1

Do you know what a point of view is? It means a way of looking at things. For example, when an accident happens, the police will ask everybody who was nearby what happened. They won't just ask one person because that person may not have seen everything that happened. So the stories people tell will often be different. This is because they each have a different idea of the accident and so a different point of view.

   Let us look closer at this accident. A boy is walking in the road when a car comes uo behind him and hurts him. Two people see what happens. Let us listen to their stories.

Part 2

A: I was walking along the road when I saw the boy coming towards me. He was walking in the bicycle lane of the road. A car came very fast up the road in the bicycle lane. The driver did not see the boy and knocked him over and hurt him. It was the car driver who caused the accident.

B: I was following the boy who was walking in the road. He was not doing what he should and he moved further into the road as the car came up behind him. The car tried to stop but it was too close to him. So the car hurt the boy. But it was the boy who caused the accident.

When you hear the two points of view, it is up to you yo decide who is correct. So who do you think caused the accident?