Listening Comprhension: SECTION C

1. If you have time, preview the answers to the Listening Part C questions. While you are looking at the answers, you should try do the following:

• Anticipate the topics or the talks you will hear.
• Ancticipate the questions for each of the groups of answers.

2. Listen carefully to the first line of the talk. the first line of the talk often contains the main idea, subject, or topic of the talk, and you will often be asked this type of question.

3. As you listen to the talk, draw conclusions about the situationof the talk: who is talking, where or when the talk takes place, which course the this lecture might be given in. You will often be aske to make inferences about the talk.

4. As you listen to the talk, follow along with the answers in your test book and try to determine the correct answers. Detail questions are generrally answered in order in the talk, and the answers often sound the same as what is said on the recording.

5. You should guess even if you are not sure. Mever leave any aswers blank.

6. Use any remaining time to look ahead at the answers to the questions that follow.

Homework for Monday October the 12th

Draw Conclusions about Who, What, When, and Where.

As you listen to each conversation in Listening Part B, you should be trying to set the situation in your mind. You should be thinking the following thoughts:

• Who is talking?
• When does the conversation probably take placa?
• Where does the conversation take place?
• What is the source of information for the conversation?

Example

On the recording you hear:

(man) Why do you have so many books?

(Woman) I need them for my paper on George Washington.

Do you know how can I check them out?

(man) Yes, you should go downstairs to the circulation desk and fill out a card for each book.

You think:

Who is probably talking? (two students)

Where are they? (in the library)

What course are they discussing ? (American History)

Homework. Copy all the information below.

Skill 2: Anticipate the questions.

Example:

(A) In the airport
(B) In the Library
(C) In the dormitory
(D) In the travel agent's office.

You try to anticipate the question.

Where does the conversation probably take place?

1. Question: ____________________________________________

(A) Find work on the campus.
(B) Work in the employment office.
(C) Help students find jobs.
(D) Ask the woman questions.

2. Question: ____________________________________________

(A) In the library.
(B) In the classroom.
(C) In a campus office.
(D) In an apartment.

3. Question: ____________________________________________

(A) No more than ten.
(B) At least twenty.
(C) Not more than twenty.
(D) Up to ten.

4. Question:_____________________________________________

(A) Every morning.
(B) Afternoons and weekends.
(C) When he's in class.
(D) Weekdays.

5. Question:_____________________________________________

(A) Fill out a form.
(B) Give her some additional information.
(C) Tell her some news.
(D) Phone her.

6. Question:_____________________________________________

(A) Just before a vacation.
(B) Just after the end of a school semester.
(C) At the end of the summer.
(D) Just after a break from school.

7. Question:_____________________________________________

(A) Three hours.
(B) Three complete days.
(C) Three classes.
(D) Three weeks.

8. Question:_____________________________________________

(A) A trip to visit the Eskimos.
(B) A trip the woman is planning to take.
(C) A trip the man has already taken.
(D) A camping trip the man and woman took.

More Idioms!

1. Now you have to find the menaning of the next idioms and study carefully all of them because you are going to take a quiz next week.

-burn the candle at both ends

-put someones foot in his mouth

-look out for number one

-kill two birds with one stone

-miss the boat

-jump out of the frying pan and into the fire

2. Copy the next sentences and choose the meaning that best fits.

1. She's buying a lot of new furniture before she even has a job. She is putting the cart before the horse. _____

2. He's not telling me exactly what happened. He's beating around the bush._____

3. She wanted to get that man's telephone number, but she wasn't sure of his last name or where he lived. It was like looking for a needle in a haystack.____

4. He's always too fast and out of control on his motorcycle. He's playing with fire.____

5. She keeps asking if I was the one who was speading rumors about her, but I wasn't. She's barking up at the wrong tree. _____

6. She's been working on that assignment for over two months, and I don't think she's ever going to finish it. She's taking forever and a day. ______

a. doing something dangerous

b. speaking indirectly

c. doing things in the wrong order

d. taking a really long time

e. making a mistake

f. doing something difficult

Homework 1

Find definitions for the next idioms: playing with fire, barking up the wrong tree, taking forever and a day, beating around the bush, looking for a needle in a haystack, and putting the cart before the horse.

Because NOT all Students delivered the homework on time, an extension has been given. The notebook must be presented on September the 11th, 2009.

These students will NOT get a perfect score in the assignment.

Startegies for the Listening Part B Questions

Verify you copied correctly all the strategies. If you copied incorrectly, you will have to copy all 6 strategies again. Check carefully.

1. If you have time, preview the answers to the Listening Part B questions.

• Anticipate the topics of the conversations you will hear.
• Anticipate the questions for each of the groups of answers.

2. Listen carefully to the first line of the conversation. It frequently contains the main idea.

3. As you listen to the converastion, draw conclusions about the situation of the conversation: who is talking, where the conversation takes place, or when it takes place.

4. As you listen to the conversation, follow along with the answers in your test book and try to determine the correct answers.

5. You should guess even if you are not sure. Never leave any answers blank.

6.Use any remaining time to look ahead at the answers to the questions that follow.