POST-LISTENING VOCABULARY: USING THE TRANSCRIPT FOR MEANING

Check the transcript of the Listening and answer the following questions on the bolded target
vocabulary. Find the sentences with these words in the transcript and try to guess their meanings,
without checking the dictionary:

1. This word means “to search and discover”: explore (v)

2. This word means “to teach someone”: educate (v)
3. This word is used to refer to a state where things exist in equal amounts: balance (n)
4. This word is the synonym of “fast”: rapid (adj)
5. If you have the cure for an illness, you can make the people suffering from it healthy again. (n)
WORD FAMILIES
Learning about word families helps you develop your academic vocabulary knowledge. Word
families often start the same and end differently, depending on the form (noun, verb, adjective or
adverb.) When you learn a new word, make sure to learn other forms from its word family. If you
don’t know the meaning of a word, you may be able to guess it from another form of the word.
Check the words below from the transcript. Complete the table. In some items, more than one
answer is possible. Use a dictionary to help you.
noun verb adjective adverb

rapidity X rapid rapidly

exploration explore exploratory ?

balance balancing balanced X

education educate educated ?

SYNTHESIZING INFORMATION
Both of the talks give information about language death. Listening 1 talks about the definition of
language death, reasons of it and some statistical data. Listening 2 focuses on the effects of
language death and suggests some solutions to help endangered languages. Based on what you
have learnt in Listening 1 and Listening 2, first define the term language death in your own words
and take some notes about its causes, effects and how it can be solved.

The definition of language death: When a language is no longer spoken, that language
dies. And thats called language death.

Causes Effects Solutions

Most of the native language
speakers are losing their
language skills in order to
learn new languages
because they want to gain
social and economic
1. We lose the expression of a
unique vision of what it means
to be human.
2. We lose memory of the
planet’s many histories and
cultures.
There are some great projects.
For example, National
Geographic's "Enduring Voices"
and UNESCO's own website.
advantages or avoid 3. We lose some of the best
discrimination. Other than local resources for fighting
that, there are also environmental threats.
economic, political, etc. 4. Some people lose their
reasons for a language mother tongue.
death.