LISTENING 3 - LISTENING LOG #4

Due date: MEETING 6

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1. Nguyễn Thị Bảo Vân – AVK41SP – ID: 1714089

LISTENING PRACTICE 4

PART 1
You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For questions 1-8, choose the best answer.
PART 2
PART 3

PART 4
1. LISTENING CONTENT

Part 1

Your answers Your explanation

1. B Ronald Milhench served 17 months and in 1980 moved to the Philippines. He is in

a Hong Kong prison cell awaiting trial later this month on fraud and firearm
changes…..

2. C The order for parts you placed hasn’t arrived. I’m sorry about that.
I’m afraid I can’t send you a replacement package. I don’t have the authority to do
that. You’ll need to speak to mr.Brown

3. A A woman said: “You can eat a light meal at midday or in the evening, which ever
suits you best. You can save fruit or yogurt from a meal to have as a snack during
the day. It is important to weigh your food…. Do not add salt in cooking or at the
table. Low calories dressing may be used on salad”.

4. C The woman said:” 5 pounds of flour and some yeast please” and “ I need pint of
milk and half a pound of cheddar cheese”

5. A Once upon a time in a faraway land, there lived a king called Ludwig, whose
dearest wish was make all of his subjects happy…. That faraway land was
 Germany- a land full of beautiful surprise. So come to land of Cinderella castles…

6. B The next candidate left university at 21 and worked as a farmer in Botswana for 3
years. Then he joined… as a lecturer.

7. B The female said:” moving there would have so many advantages” and “We’d have
to economize but I’m sure we could manage”

8. C I’m sorry all the lines are busy at the moment, but your call has been queued….If
you are calling about sheet or recorded music, please call our music department
direct on 9681 242863

Part 2: Your answers

9. Attention 10. in private 11.bills 12. gave away 13.his strange

handwriting

14. the road 15. sympathy 16. in winter 17. supermarket 18. his housework

Part 3

Your answers Your explanation

19. D The race was a shambles. He elbowed me in the face right at the start, then he trod on
my foot. The man’s a menace…right now to tell the officer.

20.F It was a bit of rough race. There was a lot of pushing and shoving front and tried to stay
there… It was only in a last 100 meters that Steven got past me and beat me to the line.
…I was so disappointed.

21.E I just don’t know what went wrong. I feel disappointed during the race and I never
managed to get to a good position….I know that they were banking on a medal…I
know they expected me to win. I’ve let everybody down.

22.A I’m absolutely thrilled with the gold. Everything went according to plan really…there
was some pushing and shoving at the beginning, but I managed to hold the good
position just behind the leaders and I saved enough for the final stretch so I was able to
print in and hold off the others…I’m off to celebrate now
 23.C I was a bit of disaster from my point of view. Someone trod on my foot on the first lap.
After that I couldn’t keep up, no matter how hard I tried. But I didn’t come here to give
up so I kept running….I thought that I did well in the end to finish as well as I did…..

Part 4

Your answers Your explanation

24. C …but then I remember why this idea of educating Tom at home had come up in first
place and I knew it was the right thing to do.
25. A Tom always be a quite boy … he quiet reserved. If he feels the are something important
to say, then he’ll say it…and he is not what I call a group person. He never want to be
in a gang.
26. C … he goes to a swimming club… he quiet a good swimmer… Apart from that, he isn’t
interested in sports at all, not even football which is dad is mad about…
27. C …. I’ve managed to teach him all the basic subjects such as English and Math but the
Science has proved the problem. I can teach the theory, but we can’t do any practical
experiments which make the subject come alive…. And his dad teachs him some skills
like wood work and technical drawing…
28. B I always remember the day Tom came home with a black eye and his trousers was
torn… And I found out from his sister that a group of older boys had been bullying him
for weeks and they beat him up.
29. B …We decided that I would give up my job and teach Tom at home…., so of course, I
lost my high salary...we had to cut down on spending on things like holiday abroad,
going out for meals and I had to sell my beautiful sport car.
30. A …. I’ve managed to teach him all the basic subjects such as English and Math but the
Science has proved the problem. I can teach the theory, but we can’t do any practical
experiments which make the subject come alive…. And his dad teachs him some skills
like wood work and technical drawing…

2. LISTENING STRATEGIES

a. Were there any new strategies that you used to get the answers for the questions?

- Pre-listening (before you listened): Read the questions, underline keywords, write down synonyms
the of keywords, guess the situations and guess the words may be filled in the blank.

- While-listening (while you were listening): Try to write down what I could here, pay attention,
base on keywords, follow the conversation in order not to miss the answers….

- Post-listening (after you listened): Write down the correct answers, prepare to listen at twice and
check the answers, check grammatical, spelling…

b. Write the synonyms from the recordings of the following words/phrases in the questions for part 2?

Question 10. … was completely different from … = seem to be opposite of

Question 12. …a lot of money = large sums of money

 c. Could you get the answers after the first time of listening? If so, what question(s) was it?

I couldn’t answer for the first time of listening almost log. I sometimes need to listen two times or
even three times to find out the most suitable answer.
However, in part 4, it’s easier than other logs. I could write down the answer for the first time of
listening because the woman talks quite clearly and slowly.

d. Were there any questions that you needed more than 2 times of listening to get the answers? What
question(s) was it?

Yes. In part 3, every record has the same situation so it’s hard to find the best answers for each
question. Besides, there are some questions in part 2 that we needed more 2 times of listening to
get the answers.

e. Who could give a lot of correct answers and logical explanations for his/her answers? What do you
think helped him/her to be an effective listener?

Ngoc Anh is the best listener of my group. She just needs to listen for the first time and tell us
about the explanation. I think she is good at listening and she pays attention to the record. She is
good at taking note as well. In addition, she is good at paraphrasing a sentence so she can listen well
even there is no similar word between audio and question.

f. Who were not effective listeners in your group? What were his/her problems? What could be done to
help him/her improve his/her listening skills?

Totally, no one were not effective listeners in our group. We were quite same same. If there
were people who had a wrong answer, we discussed together, listened one more time to find the
correct answer. We think we will practice listening skill more at home, do more test in the internet
and watch films with English to be better in our study.

3. PERSONAL OPINIONS

1. What we found most interesting/useful

- I see the way native speakers show their emotion by using tone of speaking.
- I can improve our take-note ability.
- The most useful thing about this assignment is that I was able to learn different
sentences structures so as to improve my grammar and vocabulary.
- After each log, I could found a lots of new vocabularies and synonym of words in many
different topics. More important, the most useful thing about this assignment was that I
was able to learn new words and different sentences structures in the context so as to
improve my vocabulary and structure.
- I can learned useful knowledge from the practice, had a chance to work in group to
exchange and to improve ourselves with many practical skills.

2. Some problems we have

- Some questions, the speakers talk too fast for us to keep up with the situation and
hard to take note so we need to listen more than once.
- I saw that part 4 was the most challenging part because the clues weren’t given
clearly, and in this part, we had many different answers which is clear evidence for
this challenging part.
- We had to pay attention to many details in the recording in order to find out which
ones were distractions and which ones were answers. It was hard to focus on may
information in the same time and eliminate the wrong answers.

3. Our solutions to some of the problems we have

- We should pay attention to the conversation and record in order not to miss the log’s
detail. Before listening, we should underline the keywords and write down the
synonyms of words. during listening, we try to write as much as we could listen.
- We can listen more times to find out the best answer, focus on keyword that we
underline on questions and options.

- Practice more at home.

4. What we can learn from the practice

- We learn some new words and the way native speakers show their emotion on each
case.
- We can improve how to take note effectively
- We should be more careful when there was too many information to choose from and
pay attention to the recording to eliminate the distractions to get the answer.

-The End-