The listening activities that accompany this text focus on listening for com-
prehension and on understanding details from the passage. However, the text
could also be used as the basis for a follow-up acquisition activity. For example,
students could be given the preceding text with some key lexical and grammati-
cal items deleted and the passage used as a cloze listening. Then the students
could be asked to work in pairs and rewrite the monolog as a question-and-
answer exchange between Mike and a friend. Once this was done, the dialog
could be used for pair practice. In this way, students would have the chance to
acquire for active use some of the vocabulary and grammar used in the text.