The English Department HS

Second Trimester
Grade 10

Name:…………………… Class:…………………………….

Listening Formal Formative

Criterion A

Exercise (1)

Play the audio and listen out for information that will help you to

answer questions a-g below.

a- What is the name of the radio show?.....................................................

b- The interviewer refers to advertising and self-esteem as what kind of

problem?.....................................................................................

c- Fill in the gap. It is always been assumed that women became more

insecure or eve………………..at seeing skinny models in magazines.

d- Fill in the gap. Subtle ads, according to the researcher, include pretty

models together with ……………………or when women are in the background

of a photograph.
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Second Trimester
Grade 10

e- Fill in the gap. If you take ads that blatantly focus on the bodies and faces

of super models, where their beauty is clearly …………………. the ad, readers

become……………………… confident, paradoxically.

f- Fill in the gap. Many women seem to have a defense ……………….when

reviewing unrealistic body shapes.

g- Fill in the gap. Women began to ……………..their own self-image in

response to ads that depict sexy models with unrealistic body shapes.

Exercise (2)

Listen to the audio again to use the given words in sentences of your

own.

Psychology self-esteem advertising research insecure

Confidence Subtle blatantly

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