variant 2

Identify the problem people usually come across in the process of listening which is believed to be caused by the habit of listening word by word

• Limited vocabulary knowledge

• predicting what speaker is going to say

• Lack of interest in the topic

• Poor sound quality

Identify the pre-listening activity in this example: The students are about to listen to a dialogue between a politician and a scientist discussing the future of artificial intelligence and its impact on the economy and society. “What do you know about artificial intelligence? What possible issues might the speakers raise?”

• Ativate current knowledge

• Reviewing vocabulary definitions

• Writing predictions

• Listening to a sample conversation

Identify one of the key principles of content-based listening.

• Grammar accuracy

• Vocabulary drills

• Practicing phonetics

• Focuse on meaningful information

Identify the type of listening activities which focuses on the main idea and sequencing.

• Predictive listening

• Focused listening

• Basic listening comprehension

• Interactive listening

Select an example that illustrates the effect of Historical context on the disclosure of a message meaning.

• Understanding idiomatic expressions

• References to cultural symbols may carry specific meanings that only those familiar with the context can fully understand

• Differentiating formal and informal tone

• Translating individual words

Define the term for deducing meaning from context.

• Scanning

• Summarising

• Inferring

• Skimming

Choose an example oftask in class that DOES NOT illustrate scanning

• Looking for specific data in report

• Searching for dates in a timeline

• Finding key names in a passage

• Read the first and last paragraphs of a newspaper article to get the main idea of the story

Identify the type of linguistic register that is used in professional, academic, or legal settings.

• Informal register

• Casual register

• Formal register

• Conversational register

Identify the structure of the following sentence: “I wanted to go for a walk, but it started raining.”

• Compound sentence

• Complex sentence

• Compound complex

• Simple

Identify one of the steps for effective scanning.

• Reading every sentence carefully

• Identifying keywords, dates, names, or specific phrases before starting

• Summarising content

• Reading the passage