LISTENING ACTIVITIES
KEY
LEVEL 6
(North Star Book)
1. Unit 7 "Education"
NPR File: "Young girls struggling for education in Africa"
Total time: 8:08.
Date of file: March 4, 2008
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87892527
Questions:
a. What is the main topic of the interview?
How education has radically changed young girl’s fate in Africa.
Or
What education represents for people in Africa
b. What level of education did the interviewee's parent have?
They were illiterate. Her mother did primary school.
c. What did the interviewee's parents think of education?
That it was a way out of poverty.
How did Mrs Muchembere first connect with Comfed?
The organization helped her to go to school.
d. Who does Mrs Muchembere work for?
Comfed (Campaign for female education)
e. What does Camfed do?
It supports schooling for rural girls in four countries: Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Tanzania. Amongst other things.
g. What are the two major lines of work of Mrs Muchembere?
She promotes a campaign against child abuse and she educates rural women in laws regarding marriage, inheritance, child custody and issue regarding women’s rights
h. What does Mrs. Muchembere mean by the "rippling" effect of her work?
or
How does an educated person in a family affect the rest of the community?
Because of the thin line between immediate and extended family in Africa, each educated person person will support many more. It is a multiplying effect. On the other hand Camfed has attracted local philanthropy groups that provide, for example, for the basic needs of a school.
2. Unit 9 "Immigration"
NPR File: "America's toughest sheriff takes on immigration"
Total time: 7:46
Date of file: March 10, 2008
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88002493
Questions:
a. Where is the famous sheriff from?
Arizona, USA
b. List at least three of the things the sheriff does to punish illegal immigrants?
He makes them sleep in canvas tents in summer and in winter, he makes the wear stripped (black and white) uniforms and pink underwear, gives them green sandwiches to eat.
c. What specific group is Sheriff Joe’s last target?
Illegal immigrants who loiter in the streets looking for work.
d. For sherrif Joe, illegal immigration is similar to what other crime? Why?
Smuggling. Because he says that when you are an illegal immigrant you have smuggled yourself into a country.
e. Why has the immigration friendly policy been changing?
Because public opinion has turned against immigrants.
f. Why has Sheriff Joe changed his initial policy according to the editor of the Phoenix New Times?
Because he discovered there were votes in going after immigrants.
g. What were the consequences for the Phoenix New Times editor of his criticism to Sheriff Joe's policies?
He was sent to jail and asked to turn in all the emails of the visitors of the newspaper's web page.
3. Unit 10 "Technology"
NPR File: "Harvesting energy from humans in motion"
Total time: 12.29
Real Listening time: First 10:52.
Date of file: February 8, 2008
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18800999
Questions:
a. What is the new invention mentioned in the program?
A device that collects energy from the human body and uses it to charge electronic devices such as cell phones, portable medical implements, laptops.
b. What is not the device ready to be commercialized?
Scientist have not found the way to store the energy in it nor a way to plug the implements to be charged into it.
c. In what part of the body is the device designed to be worn?
The knee
d. Does the device work at all times during the walking?
No, only in the moments when the muscles work to slow down the leg.
e. Is the device comfortable?
No, it weights 3 pounds and there must be one in each leg.
f. Doe the device have any effect in the human body?
Yes, it actually helps the body decelerate, it helps the muscles in charged of this action that because of this work less and become "lazy".
g. How much energy does the device produce with 1 minute of walking at normal speed?
5 watts, enough for 10 minutes of talk time with a mobile phone.
h. Who is the device really for?
People whose life depends on medical portable power or who have implanted medical devices. For soldiers who need to charge elements of navigation and communication.
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