IELTS Listening: presidential debate

This week in the UK, the leaders of the three main political parties are going to have a live TV debate. The video below shows part of the first American presidential debate between JFK and Nixon.

I think it's a useful video because you can follow the subtitles, and it's full of good vocabulary. Here are some of the 'verb + noun' collocations used:

to raise a question
to adopt an idea
to make recommendations
to ask for / give / get advice
to make (major) decisions
to implement goals
to face problems
to make gains

Which speaker do you prefer?
PS. I'm sorry if you can't watch YouTube videos.

Comments

[Jason]

Thanks,Simon.

we can download the video from the link:

http://v6.lscache6.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?ip=204.0.0.0&sparams=id%2Cexpire%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Calgorithm%2Cburst%2Cfactor&fexp=901801%2C900018&algorithm=throttle-factor&itag=34&ipbits=8&burst=40&sver=3&expire=1271192400&key=yt1&signature=2DA2AB3BF3829B95199A1E83D6ECC0FBB5A77AEB.B2817590E8DF757360CA4757CA5F8E6713EFD3C0&factor=1.25&id=41ace654700ed28b

here's the subtitle:

http://mo.dbidb.com/srt/A112/B560/en-mo.dbidb.com-QazmVHAO0os.zip

[karimah]

I prefer British speaker than Amrican

thnk you simon

[Simon]

Thanks for the links Jason.

Hi Karimah

Unfortunately they use all kinds of accents in the IELTS Listening test. However, this video is more difficult than IELTS tests because it contains real native speaker speech.

Simon

[evan]

Thanks for your help.
I got a effective link-http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/1513870/72199/Richard-M-Nixon-and-John-F.

If you can't access youtube and the link given by Jason,my link maybe a good choice.

Thanks Simon for this great debates.

[basheer]

Thank Simon I enjoyed with this debate

[Simon]

Thanks Evan and Basheer. I'm glad you liked the debate.

Thanks for the extra link Evan.

Simon

[Saud..]

Hi Simon
Hopefully u r right

I was happy by this debate

nice speakers

Thanks..

[Simon]

No problem Saud.

[Uğur]

I completely prefer JFK's speech. He was very sympathic