🟧🔷 Listening Activity 🔷🟧


Please listen to the audio twice and then answer the following questions.


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1️⃣ How often does he work?

Everyday
All day
Rarely


2️⃣ What is he starting to think about?

Playing basketball
Watching TV
His health
Work


3️⃣ What decision is made to get more exercise?

Running or Jogging
Doing more outdoor activities
Going to the local gym


4️⃣ What type of lessons are they considering?

Dance
Tennis
Basketball


5️⃣ For $120, How often will they meet?

Everyday for a month
Once a week for two months
Every afternoon
Twice a week for one month


6️⃣Please fill the blank and tell me what does whole sentence mean?


Playing tennis twice a week will be a good start. ..... me .... .



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🎧 LISTENING ACTIVITY 🎧


♦️Please listen to the audio carefully and answer the following questions please.


1️⃣ Does gender or nationality matter for the successful people?

2️⃣ What are talented people differences?

3️⃣ How many things do they have in common? And what?

4️⃣ Why are they so successful?

5️⃣ Are all talented people successful?


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I am trying here to 1-........... the dynamics that is 2-.......... being associated with urbanization developments. And get back once again, to this question of agriculture. Once you have cities and you also have the 3-........... of the cities, you have countryside. You have rural areas and have this relationship with urban areas, and it needs to develop agricultural goods. And you 4-......... with increasing industrial goods. Increasing agriculture productivity, reduces 5-.......... needs and opportunities in the rural areas, pushing people 6-........... to the cities. There is this 7-........... that in order to have progress and development in cities, you need people. If everybody is 8-........... growing to crops, growing food that exists, you can't have people all going into the city. You need to increase productivity in the countryside. You need to have one farmer producing enough food for more than one family. And then you will have 9-............ and productivity in the countryside, which will free of people move to the cities. In fact, in many ways, it will 10-........... it. They will go to the cities and search for jobs and provide labor force for the production of all kinds of things.


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🌹Listening practice 🌹

3 tips to boost your confidence

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Please watch the video carefully and then answer the questions 🍀🌹

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Q1. A person's confidence level is impacted by:

A. Their genes

B. The social pressures in their environment

C. The risks they choose to take

D. Their responses to challenges and setbacks

E. All of the above

Q2. This statement is an example of a "fixed mindset":

A. "It doesn't matter how hard I try; there are some things that I will never be able to learn"

B. "With hard work and a lot of practice, I can learn anything"

Q3. This statement is an example of a "growth mindset":

A. "I wasn't born with natural talent for sports, so I'll never be good at them, and this is why I don't play them"

B. "Learning and playing sports that are challenging to me, even when they are difficult, helps to develop my talent"

Q4 . The best way to increase your confidence after you have failed at something is to:

A. Immediately quit. Obviously you'll never be good at it, so you should just give up

B. Find someone else to blame... it's best if the failure wasn't your fault

C. Acknowledge your failure, figure out what went wrong, think of different strategies or get some advice on how to be more successful, then try again

D. Switch to doing something you know you are good at, and then stick to doing only the things that you are certain you will find success

Q5. Some quick ways to feel more confident before a challenge are:

A. Give yourself a pep talk

B. Strike a power pose

C. Imagine yourself succeeding at first

D. None of the above

E. All of the above

Q6. In what ways does feeling confident help a person succeed in their every day life?



Q7. It seems counterintuitive that persistence in response to failure could actually increase a person's confidence level. Explain why the opposite is true.



Q8. Give some examples of things people might say which indicate they have a fixed mindset? How would you correct these statements to help them develop a growth mindset?
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🟩🔶 Listening Class 🔶🟩


Please listen to the audio and fill the blanks.


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Sand is very useful. You can do so many things with it. You can make sand 1-....... , 2-........ yourself in it and 3-....... your toes in it. Perhaps the biggest use of sand is in building. Most of today’s buildings would not be 4-....... without sand. I wonder where sand came from. How did it get there? 5-......... so much sand in the world. I’d love to know how many 6-......... of sand there are in the world. A lot of sand comes from deserts. Going to the desert and looking at the sand is the best thing for me. The many shapes and 7-........ the sand makes is amazing. I 8-...... experienced a sand experience. It was a 9-........ . I almost couldn’t see anything in front of me because there was so much sand 10-........ .


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🟪🔷 Listening Class 🔷🟪


Please listen to the audio and fill the blanks.


🔖 Correct answers will be attached subsequently.


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Dogs make great listeners. And that may be because man and man's best friend use 1-......... brain regions to process voices.
Researchers
collected almost 200 sound samples, including human and 2-........ 3-........., as well as environmental noises and silence. They played these clips to 22 people and 11 dogs while the subjects' brains were
undergoing functional MRI scans.
Human brains 4-.......... in most to vocal sounds. Dog brains were most sensitive to environmental noises. But they still had a lot in common. A dedicated brain area reacted
strongly to the vocalizations of their own 5-........... . And that area also
responded to the voices of the other species. Meanwhile, a different brain region noted emotion in a voice, with a strong response to 6-.......... sounds like laughter and a 7-.......... reaction to unhappy noises like canine 8-.......... The study is in the journal Current Biology.
Seems that thousands 9-......... of years of 10-........... have made our furry friends sensitive to the same vocal 11-........ we are. You can 12-........ in Fido.


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🟨🔷 Listening 🔷🟨


Please listen carefully and answer the following questions.


1-Why she had called her doctor’s office?

2-What was her idea about tomorrow’s appointment? And what did laura say?

3-Could any other doctor see her?

4-what does “squeez some in” mean?

5-At the end did she come before four today or not?


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👉👉👉Listening Class👈👈👈

1️⃣ Read the vocabularies carefully
2️⃣ Listen to the conversation

👉👉 👉VOCABULARIES👈👈👈

✅Deception: the act of hiding the truth, especially to get an advantage.

✅Fascinating: very interesting.

✅Species: a set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics to each other and can breed with each other.

✅Invade: to enter a place in large numbers, usually when unwanted and in order to take possession or do damage

✅Imitate: take or follow as a model.

✅Conflict: a disagreement between people with opposing opinions or principles.

✅Hypothesis: an idea or explanation for something that is based on known facts but has not yet been proved.

✅Conduct: to organize and perform a particular activity.

✅Interpret: explain the meaning of.

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🌷👉👉👉QUESTIONS👈👈👈🌷

1️⃣ Why does the man go to see the professor?
A ) To ask for help in choosing a topic for his term paper
B ) To ask the professor to explain how to complete an assignment
C ) To ask about a point raised in a recent lecture
D ) To offer to help the professor with her research project

2️⃣ Why does the professor mention male frogs that lower their voices?
A ) To give an example of a behavior that can be predicted using game theory
B ) To reinforce the definition of “selective adaptation”
C ) To give an example of deceptive behavior in animals
D ) To compare the behavior of butterflies and frogs

3️⃣ Why does the professor talk about computers?
A ) To help the man understand game theory
B ) To describe how biologists analyze data about adaptation
C ) To suggest a way for the man to find information about game theory
D ) To explain the format required for the man's term paper

4️⃣ What does the man need to do for his term paper?
A ) Interpret the statistical data in a journal article
B ) Summarize the information in several published studies
C ) Discuss a current controversy in biological research
D ) Design an experiment that uses game theory

5️⃣ The man expresses reservations about the suggested topic for his term paper. What is the professor's attitude toward the man's reservations?
A ) She thinks the man has demonstrated the necessary background in statistics.
B ) She thinks the man should choose a topic he is more comfortable with.
C ) She thinks the man should ask another student to help him understand the statistics.
D ) She thinks the man's worries are unnecessary.

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🟩🔷 Listening Activity 🔷🟩


Please listen to the audio and answer the following questions.


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1️⃣ Where was his flight from? And what happened?

2️⃣ What did Jim offer as a compensation?

3️⃣ What was the colour of his suitcase?

4️⃣ Why was he mad about losing his suitcase?

5️⃣ Jim: Well, we'll do our ..... to track ....... your bag as quickly
as possible.
Tom: What ..... my suitcase is lost for ....... ?
Jim: Baggage usually ...... up, so let's cross that ........ when we come to it.


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🌹 Listening Class 🌹

You have 86 billion of them inside you, but what are neurons, really?
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Please listen to the attached podcast carefully and then answer the upcoming questions. 🍀🌹

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Listening questions

1. What are neurons ? Answer based on the first 30 seconds of the podcast.

2. Brain is the main place of neurons.
True
False

3. What are the rules of neurons in our body?

4. Complete the below statement.
In 1873, Italian physician Camillo Golgi found a way to ...

5. What are synapses and what makes them stronger?

6. Most neurons in our body regenerate at intervals and then die.
True
False

7. Fill the blankets with correct words.
if you never left your home again, you’d likely lose neurons in the brain ... involved in spatial ....

8. What is neurogenesis?

9. In the podcast we heard the term "electrical signals". What is the connection between it and neurons?

10. Transcribe from the below words to the end of podcast.
Private companies are ....

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🟨🔷 Listening Class 🔷🟨


Please watch the video and fill the blanks.


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Global 1-........ is happening because humans have 2-........ the earth’s atmospher so the heat can not 3-........ from it.
We need some heat, of course. carbon dioxide, methane and water vapour retain enough heat from the sun to sustain life on earth But human activity has 4-......... that balance. We’ve put carbon dioxide, methane. And nitrous oxide into the atmosphere in massive amounts by burning 5-.......... , oil, gas and 6-......... . We’ve 7-......... a lot of forests and use 8-......... methods that add to the greenhouse gases in atmosphere. Now, there’s too much carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous dioxide in the air. Today, the atmosphere 9-........ 32 percent more carbon dioxide than it did in the mid-1800s. All those gases act like a 10-......... retaining too much of the sun’s heat. That means we’re fundamentally changing 11-........ Earth’s climate. Global average temperature has 12-........ by .6-degrees Celsius since 1900. The Northern Hemisphere is now 13-......... warmer. than at any point during the past 14-......... years.
And that is global warming.


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🔊Listening Activity 🔊


1- Who was Jason Huntley?

2- Why he wanted to talk about him?

3- What made him say that?

4- What do “work ethic” , “Coach” mean?

5- What was her idea about this issue?

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