Recap Listening VS hearing Listening Barriers Physical Barriers Psychological Barriers Language Barriers How to overcome these barriers? The Process of Listening The Four Ears of Listeners

Week 5 Listening Skills (Activities)

Activity 1 rd_sample_questions/listening_comprehension

Activity 2

Activity 3 Train 2

Activity 3 (Quiz on Train 2) 1. Where does the man want to go? A. Tokyo Subway Station B. Tokyo Art Museum C. Tokyo Tower 2. How much is the train fare? A. 130 yen B. 140 yen C. 150 yen

Activity 3 (Quiz on Train 2) 3. Where should the man get on the train? A. platform number 3 B. platform number 4 C. platform number 5 4. How often do the trains come? A. about every five minutes B. about every six minutes C. about every seven minutes

Activity 3 (Quiz on Train 2) 5. Where should the man get off the train? A. at Kamiyacho Station B. at Kamigaya Station C. at Kamiyama Station

Activity 3 (Quiz on Train 2) Answers: 1. Tokyo Tower yen 3. Platform number 4 4. about every six minutes 5. at Kamiyacho Station

Activity 4 Steve Jobs Speech

Activity 4 (Quiz on Speech) 1.How many stories is Steve Jobs going to present? a. 3 b. 4 c Did SteveJobs graduate from college? a. He graduated from college. b. He never graduated from college.

Activity 4 (Quiz on Speech) 3. Where is he presenting? a. At Yale b. At Harvard c. At Stanford 4. What is the first story about? a. connecting the dots b. love and loss c. death

Activity 4 (Quiz on Speech) 5. When did he drop out? a. After the first 3months b. After the first 6months c. After the first 9months 6. Who his father and mother wanted their adopted baby to be? a. A girl b. A boy c. They didn't care about it.

Activity 4 (Quiz on Speech) 7. Why did he decide to drop out? a. He wanted to go to another college. b. He wanted to run a company by himself. c. He didn't see the value in college. 8. What did he think about his decisions? a. One of the best decisions b. One of the worst decisions c. Not a big deal.

Activity 4 (Quiz on Speech) 9. After dropping out, what did he drop in (take) ? a. Business class b. Calligraphy class c. Grammar class 10. What kind of typefaces did he learn in the calligraphy class? a. Serif and semi serif b. Serif and san serif c. Seris and van serif

Activity 4 (Quiz on Speech) 11. Which company copied the Mac? a. IBM b. Toshiba c. Microsoft 12. Considering the whole content of the speech, what does the title of speech "connecting the dots" mean? a. The outline of the project has revealed. b. Something has been the turning point of one's life. c. An array of events which looks like irrelevant each other becomes relevant in the end.

Activity 4 (Quiz on Speech) 13. What was his biological mothers' hope when she decided to put him up for adoption? a. Her son being adopted to parents who graduated from college. b. Her son being adopted to parents who are very rich. c. Her son being adopted to parents who are in the field of IT. 14. Why does Steve Jobs regard his decision, dropping out his college, as a best determination in his life considering his future career? a. Because of that, he could enter better college. b. Because of that, he could be employed good in company. c. Because of that, he could make a computer which has good fonts.

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