Unit 7 Listening Course 2

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Unit 7 ListeningCourse (2)
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• Section One
• Tactics for Listening

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Part 1 Phonetics

• Focus
• Stress, Intonation and Accent
• Understanding rising or falling tone.

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Exercise

• An American film star is talking to you about his
  likes and dislikes. Has he finished speaking?
  Tick the right box.

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Tick the right box
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Part 2 Listen and Note-taking

• Mountain Rescue Service
• Focus
• Selecting key words
• Organizing notes in the form of an outline

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Ex. A Fill in the key words in the sentences

• 1. The first thing that happens is that the
  person who reports the accident is closely
  questioned.
• 2. They will also need to know how many people
  were involved in the accident and what kind of
  injuries there were.
• 3. The third party on the mountain is the back-up
  group.

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• 4. Their job is to help the main party on its
  return journey.
• 5. The base is set up near telephone so that
  extra help can be contacted without delay.

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Ex. B Take notes and complete the following
outline.

• Mountain Rescue Service
• I. The rescue group finds out a number of
  details.
• A. The place where the accident happened.
• B. The time of the accident.
• C. Details about the victim.

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(continued)

• II. Then the rescue teams call-out procedure
  begins.
• A. Team members keep their personal equipment at
  home so as to be ready to set off within 15
  minutes of receiving the call.
• B. The advance party of about 4 people sets off
  right away.
• 1. They carry a radio telephone with them to send
  details to the main party and to the base.
• 2. They are also equipped and trained to give
  immediate medical assistance.

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(continued)

• C. The main party follows the advance party.
• 1. They carry a radio telephone and more
  supplies, including a stretcher for the victim.
• D. The 3rd party on the mountain is the back-up
  group.
• 1. Their job is to help the main party on its
  return journey.

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(continued)

• III. Rescue control is set up in a mobile base.
• A. This vehicle carries the teams supplies other
  than personal equipment.
• B. It is equipped with radio telephone and the
  means of providing hot food and drinks.
• C. The base is set up near a telephone so that
  extra help, for example ambulance, doctor,
  helicopter or reserves, can be contacted without
  delay.

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• Section Two
• Listening Comprehension

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Part 1 Dialogues

• Focus
• Identify arguments
• Recognize specific details
• Make inferences

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Dialogue 1 Stressed Out

• Vocabulary
• fitness nut
• someone who is so ardently devoted to being in
  shape or in good physical condition that it
  resembles an addiction
• mediate
• think intently and at length, as for spiritual
  purposes

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• yoga
• a system of exercises practiced as part of the
  Hindu discipline to promote control of the body
  and mind
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• beat
• very tired
• beaten
• defeated

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Ex. Listen to Mia and her friend talking about
stress and decide whether the statements are true
or false

• 1. F. You look beat means you look tired.
• 2. T. (Mia Ive got a million things to
  do.Just lots of deadlines.)
• 3. T. (Mia Im working on the house too, you
  know. Im trying to fix it up.)
• 4. T.
• 5. F. (Friend You really should ride a bicycle
  to the store or walk to work a couple of days a
  week, or go swimming . You dont have to become
  a fitness nut, you know.)

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an inability to sleep chronic sleeplessness

• 6. T. Mia has insomnia. (Mia I cant seem to
  sleep at night.)
• 7. T. (Friend A lot of people learn to mediate
  or learn yoga. Meditation and yoga are supposed
  to be good ways to deal with stress.)
• 8. F. (Friend They wont help the stress, but
  they may help your body dandle it better.)
• 9. T. (Mia OK. See you Friday.)
• 10. T. Mia is probably a workaholic. (Mia Got
  to get back to work! / Friend Mia, youre
  hopeless, truly hopeless.)

person with a compulsive need to work
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Dialogue 2 Reflexology

• Vocabulary
• reflexology
• a method of massage that relieves nervous tension
  through the application of finger pressure,
  especially to the feet.

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• Ex. Listen to two people talking about
  reflexology. Mark the places on the foot in the
  order of 1, 2, as they are mentioned by the
  speaker. And then complete the following table.

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Parts of your foot are connected to other parts
of your body.

• Brain

headaches
tired eyes

• Eyes

Eyes

• really bad pain in your eyes.

• Shoulders

muscles in
your shoulders

• stiff shoulders.

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(continued)

• Back

back
backaches
stomach
Stomach
stomachaches
Knees
sore knees.
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Part 2 Passages

• Focus
• Understanding and acquiring words and expressions
  used in medical fieldepidemic and cancer
• Recognizing specific information

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Passage 1 Epidemics

• Background The Caribbean

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vocabulary

• epidemic n.
• a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease
  many people are infected at the same time
• pandemic n.
• an epidemic that is geographically widespread
  occurring throughout a region or even throughout
  the world

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• virus
• ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates
  itself only within cells of living hosts
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• serotype
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• dengue also dengue fever
• An acute, infectious tropical disease caused by
  an arbovirus transmitted by mosquitoes, and
  characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and
  severe muscle and joint pain. Also called
  breakbone fever, dandy fever Also called dengue
  fever.
• Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever
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• Dengue Shock Syndrome
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• benign adj.
• not dangerous to health not recurrent or
  progressive (especially of a tumor)
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• incubation n.
• the phase in the development of an infection
  between the time a pathogen enters the body and
  the time the first symptoms appear

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• nausea
• disgust so strong it makes you feel sick
• intestinal
• of or relating to or inside the intestines
• Intestinal obstruction causing colic, vomiting,
  and constipation. 
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• metabolic
• relating to the process in which food is changed
  into energy, new cells, and waste products in
  plants and animals.
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• vaccine
• A substance prepared from dead or living
  microorganisms that is introduced into the body
  through inoculation. The vaccine causes the
  development of antibodies, which produce immunity
  to the disease caused by the microorganism.
• acetaminophen
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Ex. A Pre-listening question

• What are the signs and symptoms of dengue?
• The signs and symptoms of dengue include a
  sudden, rapidly climbing fever, a severe headache
  nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, rash and
  deep muscle and joint pains.

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Ex. B Choose the best answer

• 1. B 2. A 3. C 4. C
• 5. D 6. D 7. A 8. B

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Ex. C Answer the questions

• What will happen if one gets a second dengue
  infection, particularly with type 2?
• It will probably lead to an even worse infection.
  Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever or Dengue Shock
  Syndrome.
• Who suffer the most from dengue and how dangerous
  is dengue to children?
• Children suffer the most from dengue and they are
  the at the greatest risk of dying from dengue.

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• What are some of the signs and symptoms of
  dengue?
• A sudden, rapidly climbing fever, a severe
  headache, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite,
  rash and deep muscle and joint pains.
• Why does bleeding develop when one contracts
  dengue?
• Because with Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever the blood
  cells are crippled.

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• What is the definition of shock?
• With the shock syndrome the blood vessels dont
  work quite right, and the blood pressure drops
  precipitously as a result the blood fails to
  meet the metabolic demands of the cells in the
  bodywhich is the definition of shock.

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Passage 2 Cancer

• Vocabulary
• DNA
• deoxyribonucleic acid??????
• a nucleic acid that contains the genetic
  instructions for the development and function of
  living organisms. The main role of DNA in the
  cell is the long term storage of information. It
  is often compared to a blueprint, since it
  contains the instructions to construct other
  components of the cell, such as proteins and RNA
  molecules. The DNA segments that carry genetic
  information are called genes, but other DNA
  sequences have structural purposes.

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• lump together
• put together in one lump
• malignant
• dangerous to health characterized by progressive
  and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)
• metastasis
• the spreading of a disease to another part of the
  body

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Ex. A Pre-listening question

• What are risk factors for cancer?
• 1. A lifestyle choice, like what a person eats
• 2. An environmental exposure, like smoke from
  other peoples cigarettes
• 3. Genetic make-up or family history
• 4. Another disease or medical problem.
• (Open to discussion)

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Ex. B Listen and choose the best answer.

• 1. C 2. D 3. B 4. A
• 5. B 6. A 7. B 8. C

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Ex. C Answer the questions

• When does cancer occur?
• Cancer occurs when cells in the body grow and
  divide out of control.
• What does the process of normal cells do to our
  bodies?
• The process of normal cells helps keep our bodies
  healthy.
• Are all tumors malignant? What can people do to
  some benign tumors?
• Not all tumors are malignant. Benign tumors can
  usually be removed and rarely come back.

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• What is a risk factor?
• A risk factor is anything that raises or lowers a
  persons chance of getting a disease.
• What is the conclusion of risk factors?
• Some people are more sensitive to risk factors
  than others. Just because you have one or even
  several risk factors does not mean you will
  definitely get cancer. And avoiding risk factors
  does not guarantee you will be healthy.

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Part 3 News

• Focus
• HIV and AIDS
• Recognizing facts--figures
• Summary
• Background Building
• How serious is the AIDS situation in the world?
  Which part of the world is most affected?
• When is AIDS Day?
• Do you know how AIDS is transmitted?
• It is transmitted primarily by exposure to
  contaminated body fluids, especially blood and
  semen.

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News Item 1

• Haiti
• a republic in the West Indies on the western part
  of the island of Hispaniola achieved
  independence from France in 1804 the poorest and
  most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere

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• HIV
• The human immunodeficiency virus, is the virus
  that causes AIDS
• AIDS
• Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

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Ex. A Summarize the news

• This news item is about the launch of a Bush
  Administration plan to reduce the passing of HIV
  and AIDS from mother to children in Haiti.

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Ex. B Fill in the exact figures you have heard

• Haiti has become the ____ country
  to launch a Bush Administration plan to reduce
  the passing of HIV and AIDS from mother to
  children. The program began Monday at a
  hospital. Haiti will receive __________ for the
  first year of ______________ program. Officials
  say the money is expected to increase to
  ___________ over five years. The project is part
  of the ______________ AIDS plan for African and
  Caribbean that President Bush recently signed
  into law. Every year as many as _______ Haitian
  children are reportedly born with HIVthe virus
  that causes AIDS.

first
4 million
the five-year
60 million
15,000 million
6,000
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News Item 2

• Background
• World Bank
• An international organization dedicated to
  providing financing, advice and research to
  developing nations to aid their economic
  advancement.

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• EX. A Summarize the news
• This news item is about a new World Bank study
  which warns that HIV and AIDS may damage African
  economies far worse than had been believed.

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• Ex. B Complete the outline
• I. A new World Bank study warning
• 1. HIV and AIDS may damage African economies
  _________ than had
• been believed.
• 2. African nations with high rates of AIDS
  could see as much as
• _______________________________ disappear
  with 90 years.
• II. Harmful influence on young adults and their
  children
• 1. The study shows that AIDS kills mostly
  ___________. Many children
• are then left without _______.
• 2. It said children whose parents die of AIDS
  are less likely to
• ______________________. As a result, they
  ____________________to
• make them productive adults.
• 3. The study said that _______________ must
  be taken to keep infected
• people alive so that they can
  _________________ their children.

far worse
half of their entire domestic product
young adults
parents
complete their education
failed to gain the skills
immediate action
care for and educate
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News Item 3

• Background
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• comprises the forty-two
• countries on the African continent south of the
  Sahara and the six island nations close to it.
• Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10 of the
  worlds population, but is home to more than 60
  of all people living with HIV25.8 million
• the hardest-hit region
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• Ex. A Summarize the news
• This news is about the serious condition of the
  expansion of the new infection with HIV.
• Ex. B True or false questions
• 1. The annual AIDS report from the UN said that
  5 million people became infected with HIV this
  year. ___ (_________________)
• 2. The figure reported is the largest number of
  new infections since the disease was discovered
  in 1981.
• ____

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Almost 5 million
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• 3. The expansion of AIDS-prevention efforts are
  required because only one in five people
  worldwide has been reached.
• ____ (_________________________________.)
• 4. Female and young are the main victims. ____
• 5. Over 20 million people died of AIDS in more
  than two decades. ____
• 6. Sub-Saharan African remained the hardest-hit
  region. ____

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The efforts reach just 1 in 5 people worldwide
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