ENGL E102F Wk 9 Sess 1_L02

Listening

Suggested answers

True (for 30 years)

1. Kelsey Hennessy is a family counsellor.

2. Kelsey Hennessy has worked in Denmark, Norway, Austria and Hong Kong.

Not given (some of the places are correct but Austria has not been mentioned, the one mentioned is Australia)

Listening

3. In the recent decade, Kelsey Hennessy has published more than 40 journal articles pertaining to play therapy and education psychology.

4. Kelsey Hennessy is the author of the book, Let children play.

Not given (more than 40 is partly correct, it should be 50)

True (her recent book)

Listening

False (not the field of children literature, should be in play therapy and educational psychology)

5. William James Award recognizes excellent work in the field of children literature.

6. Michelle Obama is the patron of The Healthy Child Healthy World Organization.

7. Kelsey Hennessy was born in Canada.

True (the patron and sponsor)

True (in Vancouver, Canada)

Listening

False (she has 6 siblings so her parents have 7 children)

8. Kelsey Hennessy's parents have 6 children.

9. Kelsey Hennessy's parents would take their children to skiing trips during winter.

10. Kelsey Hennessy graduated from Stanford University with a major in psychology.

Not given (they did take them out for hiking trips and walks but not skiing trips)

False (did graduate from Stanford but majoring in Education not psychology)

Listening

spelling (no mark) and grammar (0.5)

inability

verbal

speech

restrictive

Written Exam

medium

dynamic

tackle

Listening

Listening

spelling (key word:no mark) and grammar (0.5)

magic wand

safely verbalize

improving hand strength

Listening

levels of well-being

Recap

• Listening
• Signposting words and phrases
• Strategies to guide the audience

Recap

Oral presentation today:

• Shoei
• David

Signpost or provide markers

• Purpose:
• Listeners can follow what you are saying and where you are going more easily
• How:
• Using sequence markers and words which show the relationships between ideas

Signpost or provide markers

For example:

• tell your listeners clearly when you have finished the first part and that you are now moving on to part two, then part three and so on.

Signpost or provide markers

Activity:

• Listen to a lecture entitled The functions of Examinations and complete the table.

Signpost or provide markers

In this lecture, I want to concentrate on ...

I want now to turn to ...

Signpost or provide markers

Let's take a closer look at this ...

By way of conclusion to my talk today ...

Signpost or provide markers

Introducing your topic:

• Today I'd like to discuss ...
• I'm going to explain ...
• I want to consider ...

Sequencing your points:

• First/ To begin with, I'll
• I will then go on to ...
• Next, I'll
• Finally/ My final point concerns ...

Signpost or provide markers

Introducing a new point:

• I'd like to turn now to ...
• Moving on now to ...
• Having looked at ..., let's now consider ...

Concluding your speech:

• So, we can see that ...
• So, we can conclude from all this that ...
• In conclusion, I'd like to review my main points

Strategies to help listeners

Less referents like pronouns

• If too many pronouns have been used, listeners will feel confused

Strategies to help listeners

presenting old days in a slightly different way making them seem new and original

Task 1: Look at the example:

John and Sam were sitting in the kitchen. John really wanted to talk about what he'd done in the last ten years, but he seemed more interested in rehashing the days of their childhood. He was saddened by the fact that he couldn't share all of the successes of the past decade with him - but alas, Sam didn't seem to care.

Can you identify what each 'he' and the 'him' refer to?

Clarity and organization

• Be clear and concise
• Have a clear structure
• Tell your listeners how you have organized what you are going to say.

Clarity and organization

• Today I would first talk to you briefly about Antarctica, its geography, its wild life and its significance. I would also like to make use of this opportunity to introduce to you some unusual activities it offers and give you some tips to anyone who is planning to visit Antarctica in the near future.

More repetition

• cannot go back and review
• the key ideas/terms need to be repeated to ensure that the content is clear

Activity

Listen again to the introduction and the first argument of the lecture, 'The Functions of Examinations'. Pay attention to the organization of the lecture and how the lecturer uses repetition to help his students to understand his argument.

Activity

well-established feature

benefits

teachers

health workers

public

pressure

Activity

desirable

essential component

Activity

stimulating healthy competition

an effective means of measuring learning

continuous assessment

Activity

The lecturer repeats the idea of stimulating healthy competition 3 times, once in the introduction when he provides the outline of sections and twice within the first argument.

He mentions that students are stimulated by the competitive atmosphere to produce the best work they are capable of. And before moving on to the second issue, he reinforces that examinations stimulate hard work and a healthy competition, which reflects the reality of the outside world.