Dyslexia Business Success

Name: ______________________ Class: _________________ Date: _________ ID: U
Unit 4 Test
MAIN IDEAS. Listen to the podcast. Answer T (true) or F (false). [Track 21CC 3_U4_1.mp3]
____ 1. Dyslexia is a problem that affects reading, spelling, and writing.
____ 2. Research shows that people with dyslexia are not good at business.
____ 3. The professor has personal experience with this problem.
____ 4. Studies show that people with dyslexia have other strengths, such as good communication skills and an
ability to see the big picture.
DETAILS: Listen to parts of the lecture. Choose the correct answer to complete each
statement or answer the question.
____ 5. What is the professor’s department or subject area? [Track 21CC 3_U4_2.mp3]
a. business
b. learning disabilities
c. medicine
____ 6. People with dyslexia often have problems with ____. [Track 21CC 3_U4_2.mp3]
a. understanding speech
b. sticking with things
c. word recognition
____ 7. According to Logan’s research, about ____ of Americans who start their own businesses are dyslexic.
[Track 21CC 3_U4_3.mp3]
a. 10 percent
b. one third
c. 3 percent
____ 8. What is one reason why people with dyslexia often succeed in business? [Track 21CC 3_U4_3.mp3]
a. They don’t fail very often.
b. They are good at solving problems.
c. They read text well.
____ 9. What is true about people with dyslexia? [Track 21CC 3_U4_4.mp3]
a. They have difficulty noticing when things are different.
b. They process information linearly, or in a line.
c. They can see the whole situation.
____ 10. What kind(s) of information can people with dyslexia pay attention to at the same time? [Track 21CC
3_U4_5.mp3]
a. information they see
b. information they hear
c. information they see and information they hear
Name: ______________________ ID: U
LISTENING SKILL: Listen to sections of the interview. Choose the correct answer.
____ 11. What word is repeated? [Track 21CC 3_U4_6.mp3]

a. skills
b. jumped
c. letters
____ 12. What is the key point? [Track 21CC 3_U4_6.mp3]

a. He had trouble reading.
b. He had other skills.
c. He couldn’t pay attention in class.
____ 13. What phrase is synonymous with “the big picture”? [Track 21CC 3_U4_7.mp3]
a. the whole forest
b. a very linear process
c. at a cost to other parts
____ 14. What is the key point? [Track 21CC 3_U4_7.mp3]

a. People with dyslexia process information in a line, taking in one piece at a time.
b. People with dyslexia have damage to a certain part of their brains.
c. People with dyslexia can take in lots of information about a situation at the same
time.
SPEAKING SKILL: Listen to the sentences from the interview. What do the signposts do?
____ 15. When I tried to read, the letters and words jumped all over the page.[Track 21CC 3_U4_8.mp3]
a. It signals what happened at the time the speaker read.
b. It signals that something happened later.
c. It signals what happened before the speaker read.
____ 16. Eventually, educators started to recognize that I had a learning disability. [Track 21CC 3_U4_9.mp3]
a. It signals that educators started to recognize the disability right away.
b. It signals that educators started to recognize the disability quickly.
c. It signals that educators started to recognize the disability after some time.
____ 17. Once I knew what my problem was, that my brain was different, but that I wasn’t stupid, everything
improved. [Track 21CC 3_U4_10.mp3]
a. It signals that everything improved quickly after the speaker knew what the problem
was.
b. It signals that everything improved just before the speaker knew what the problem
was.
c. It signals that everything improved a long time after the speaker knew what the
problem was.
PRONUNCIATION SKILL: Listen to these words from the interview. Which ending do you
hear?
a. [d]
b. [t]
c.
____ 18. jumped [Track 21CC 3_U4_11.mp3]
Name: ______________________ ID: U
____ 19. tried [Track 21CC 3_U4_12.mp3]

____ 20. created [Track 21CC 3_U4_13.mp3]
VOCABULARY: Complete the sentences with the correct word.
approach clarification compensate coordination destruction
display fragment progressively transform ultimately
21. Doctors and lawyers often __________ their diplomas from medical or law school on their office walls.
22. I don’t understand this application. I’m hoping the Web site provides some ___________.
23. Traveling to other countries can ___________ your life because you will learn so much.
24. Our sales are down, so I think we need a new marketing ___________.
25. Because he’s so short, he learned to __________ in basketball by jumping high.
26. Tornadoes cause a lot of ___________, often taking down entire towns.
27. Many artists remain unknown for most of their lives and ___________ become famous after their
deaths.
28. After a stroke, many people have problems with ____________ and have to relearn how to walk.
29. Other kinds of brain damage can cause thoughts to __________, making the patient sound confused.
30. I had to get glasses because my vision got ___________ worse.

ID: U
Unit 4 Test
Answer Section
1. ANS: T PTS: 3 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4

TOP: Main Ideas NOT: 21CC 3_U4_1.mp3
2. ANS: F PTS: 3 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4
5. ANS: A PTS: 3 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4
TOP: Details NOT: 21CC 3_U4_2.mp3
6. ANS: C PTS: 3 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4
7. ANS: B PTS: 3 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4
TOP: Recognize Repetition of Key Points NOT: 21CC 3_U4_6.mp3
TOP: Explain a Sequence of Events NOT: 21CC 3_U4_8.mp3
TOP: Pronouncing -ed Endings NOT: 21CC 3_U4_11.mp3
21. ANS: display
PTS: 2 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4 TOP: Vocabulary

ID: U
22. ANS: clarification

23. ANS: transform

24. ANS: approach

25. ANS: compensate

26. ANS: destruction

27. ANS: ultimately

28. ANS: coordination

29. ANS: fragment

30. ANS: progressively

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Name: ______________________ Class: _________________ Date: _________ ID: U

____ 1. Dyslexia is a problem that affects reading, spelling, and writing.

____ 3. The professor has personal experience with this problem.

____ 11. What word is repeated? [Track 21CC 3_U4_6.mp3]

____ 12. What is the key point? [Track 21CC 3_U4_6.mp3]

____ 14. What is the key point? [Track 21CC 3_U4_7.mp3]

____ 19. tried [Track 21CC 3_U4_12.mp3]

VOCABULARY: Complete the sentences with the correct word.

approach clarification compensate coordination destruction

display fragment progressively transform ultimately

25. Because he’s so short, he learned to __________ in basketball by jumping high.

30. I had to get glasses because my vision got ___________ worse.

1. ANS: T PTS: 3 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4

PTS: 2 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4 TOP: Vocabulary

22. ANS: clarification

PTS: 2 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4 TOP: Vocabulary

PTS: 2 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4 TOP: Vocabulary

PTS: 2 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4 TOP: Vocabulary

PTS: 2 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4 TOP: Vocabulary

PTS: 2 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4 TOP: Vocabulary

PTS: 2 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4 TOP: Vocabulary

PTS: 2 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4 TOP: Vocabulary

PTS: 2 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4 TOP: Vocabulary

PTS: 2 REF: 21CC 3, Unit 4 TOP: Vocabulary

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