Lecture 3 Exercises

Listening: Principles of effective listening

Instructions: Attempt all questions
1. Do you agree that listening is more important than speaking? Why or why not?

2. What are the traits of a good listener? How can you make out if the other person is
listening to you properly or not?

3. Discuss the barriers to listening in detail and give suggestions to overcome each one of
them.

4. If the speaker’s verbal and non-verbal cues do not match, how it will affect your
listening? Which one will you believe then? Why?

5. What is the correlation between listening and taking notes? Give a few tips for effective
notetaking.

Practical Listening Exercises

A. Fill the form below after listening to the audio file titled “complete a form”
Example
Country of destination: ........kenya..….

Name: Jacob 1…………………….

Address to be collected from: 2……………………. College, Downlands Rd

Town: Bristol

Postcode: 3 ……………………………………

Size of container: Length: 1.5m; Width: 4……………………..; Height: 5………………….

Contents: Clothes; 6……………………………; 7……………………………….

Total estimated value: 8 £ ……………………………………………

B. Answer these multiple choice questions after listening to the audio file titled
“Multiple Choice”
9 Type of insurance chosen
A Economy
B Standard
C Premium
 10 Customer wants goods delivered to
A port
B home
C depot

C. Provide short answers to these questions after listening to the audio titled “short
answers”

What TWO factors can make social contact in a foreign country difficult?
11 ...............................

12 ...............................

Which types of community group does the speaker give examples of?

theatre

13 ..................................

14 ..................................

In which TWO places can information about community activities be found?

15 ..................................

16 ..................................

D. Complete these notes after listening to the audio file titled “note completion”
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each
answer.
THE NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE
Well known for: 11 …………………
Complex consists of: concert rooms
theatres
cinemas
art galleries
public library
restaurants
12 …………………
Historical background: 1940 – area destroyed by bombs
1960s – Centre was 13 …………………
In 14 ………………… – opened to public
Managed by: 15 …………………
Open: 16 ………………… days per year