CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
B. Suggestion
After conducting this research, the researcher would like to offer some suggestions:
1. Nowadays, English teacher should use a media that combined between visual and auditory in teaching listening skill, so the students are not bored and enjoy the class. It will be better to use multimedia in teaching it. One of the good ways is by using Audio Podcast in their learning.
2. The researcher also suggested for the next researcher who are interested in this subject (listening) to find out the other way that more interesting than Audio Podcast to teach listening because it is the most difficult skill in English.
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Name :
Reg. Number :
Listen to the audio podcast about “A serious case” and then fill the blank by using the provided words.
completely A rabbit horrible brush irrational A psychiatrist furry Guess what afraid spiders
I have a friend who is afraid of (1)……….. This isn‟t very unusual;
a lot of people are afraid of spiders. I don‟t really like spiders much myself. I don‟t mind them if you see them outside, in the garden, as long as they‟re not too big. But if one comes in the house, especially if it‟s one of those really big spiders with (2)………. legs and little red eyes, then I go “yeeucch” and I try to get rid of it. Usually I‟ll use a (3)……… to get rid of the spider, but if I feel brave then I‟ll put a glass over the top of it, slide a piece of paper under the glass and then take it outside.
This is quite normal, I think. But my friend isn‟t (4)………of spiders in any normal way. She isn‟t just afraid of spiders, she is totally, completely and utterly terrified of them. When my friend sees a spider she doesn‟t just go
“uurgghh!” or run away, or ask someone else to get rid of the (5)……….
creepy crawly. No: she screams as loud as she possibly can. She screams so loud that her neighbors worry about her, and think about calling the police. When she sees a
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“(7)………..?” she asked me.
“What?” I said.
“I‟ve got a new pet!”
“Great,” I said. “What is it? A dog? A cat?”
“No”
“A budgie?”
“No”
“(8)………..?”
“No”
“What then?”
“I‟ve got a pet spider.”
“I don‟t believe you!”
“It‟s true! I decided that it was time I did something about my phobia so I went to visit a doctor, a special doctor.(9)………... This psychiatrist specialized in phobias – helping people who had (10)……….. fears to get better, and live normally. He told me I suffered from „arachnophobia‟.”
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Listen to the audio podcast about “My son” and then fill the blank by using the provided words.
understand attempt enormous happiness instructions values gymnastics memory brought protects
I want to talk about my son. My son is now one year and eight months old, has brought (1)………..happiness to our family although my wife, my parent-in-laws always complain about how tiring it is to look after him.
He is really cute and adorable. He can now speak some very simple words such as papa, mama, but he can (2)……….quite a lot of things although he can‟t, cannot express himself verbally, for example, he can recognize the personal belongings of each family members (member), such as my T-shirt, the eye-glasses (glasses) of grandpa or my wife‟s bag, etc. He also firmly (3)………..his own personal belongings, such as his little chair on which he sits for meals. He will drive you away if you (4)……… to sit on his chair.
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feet tied, and then we recalled it was because he watched the national parade in Tiananmen Square on the National Day. And he also learnt some gestures like kung- fu after watching the (6)………in sports programmers.
I always believe that parents are the first and best teachers for children. I have a lot of friends, also new parent (parents), they bought, they pay for their kids‟ very expensive course – some pre-school course (courses). I believe that you need to nurture and (7)……… (bring) up your children with your heart and love, so every weekend, my wife and I will take him to parks because I live very close to the zoo, the Guangzhou Zoo so I often take him to the Zoo and show him the animals.
He always loves that - watching all kinds of animals.
I also want to do some experiments. I want to see how children learn language so I try to teach him bilingually (in a bilingual way), so I teach him to say some words in English and then in Mandarin. And now he can understand quite a lot of(8)………., for example, if I ask him, „where is your bike?‟ and he‟ll run to his bike and show his bike. And if I ask him, „where is the moon?‟ and then he will point his finger up into (to) the sky so I think he is quite funny. And I also hope that if he can learn English at a very young age and he will not suffer too much when he studies at school.
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killing is to play with him after meal, after work so I always can forget all about the frustrations and sometimes unhappiness in work and feel fully 'recharged'. I have now learnt strong family (10)………. after bringing up my son and I understand how difficult it is to be (a) parent so I now try to call my parents whenever I have the time, take them out to dinner or try to visit them during the weekends…erm, so I think it‟s great to be (a) parent.
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Listen to the audio podcast about “The Come Back” and then fill the blank by using the provided words.
ignoring changed famous theatre remember
announced The louder happened returned Nobody
Fausto Ruiz got off the boat at the port of the city where he had been born fifty years ago, and to which he had not (1)……….. for twenty years. He walked along the seafront, surprised by how much his hometown had changed, and also by how much of it he could still recognize. There were lots of new buildings up on the hills around the city now, buildings which he didn‟t recognize. Yet many of the old buildings along the sea were exactly the same as he recognized them, although many of the old shops he remembered were there no more.
He walked away from the port and into the centre of the city. He walked up the main road and saw how all the shops had (2)……… , but that there was still one small café there which was the same as it had been when he was young, and famous. He walked into the café and sat down at one of the tables. He recognized the owner of the café behind the bar as well as the waiter who was working there. They
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Fausto sat at his table and waited for the waiter to come to him. He sat there for ten, fifteen, twenty minutes. Half an hour passed and the waiter continued to ignore him. Fausto raised his arm and shouted to the waiter, then to the owner of the café behind the bar, but it was useless. They didn‟t come and ask him what he wanted. They were (3)……… him.
Angry, Fausto got up and walked out of the café, slamming the door behind him. Such ignorant people, he thought. Now I (4)……… why I left this town twenty years ago, and why I never came back.
He walked along the main street as far as the main square in the town and when he arrived at the main square he remembered the other reason why he had never come back. In the main square of the town there was the theatre. As he looked at the theatre, Fausto Ruiz had a terrible memory of what had (5)……… there twenty years ago.
Twenty years ago, Fausto Ruiz had been the most famous singer in the world.
He had sung in all of the most (6)……….. opera houses in the world. He had sung in London, New York, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Tokyo and Sydney.
Everywhere he went, people paid large sums of money for tickets, then when they saw him sing they clapped and applauded and cheered for hours. When he was at the
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The concert was (7)……… , and all the tickets sold out within a few hours. The evening of the concert, thousands of people crowded into the theatre to see the legendary Fausto Ruiz sing in the theatre of his hometown.
There was silence as Fausto walked onto the stage. Then he began to sing, one of his best known songs. And at the end of the song, there was just silence.
(8)……….. clapped, nobody applauded, nobody cheered. Fausto waited, very surprised for a moment, then started to sing another song. At the end of this song, there was silence for a moment, then the people began to boo and to hiss. Fausto tried to cover the noise of the booing and hissing by singing another song, very loudly this time. But it got worse. (9)……… he sang, the louder the boos and hisses became. Then someone threw a tomato at him. Then someone else threw a rotten orange at him. Then someone else threw an old shoe at him. Soon, there was a rain of rotten fruit and vegetables and smelly old shoes falling down on the great Fausto Ruiz. Fausto was angry, Fausto was furious. He stormed off the stage and out of the (10)………. . He left his hometown that night, and he said that he would never, ever go back there ever again.
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Listen to the audio podcast about “Student Power” and then fill the blank by using the provided words.
demonstrations protesting troublemakers national government‟s important unthinkable conditions manipulated factory
When most people think of strikes, they think of factory workers asking for better pay and (1)………, or perhaps refusing to work to support a colleague who has been unfairly sacked. It is not often that people associate strikes with school students. But in Italy, it is different. While in many countries it is absolutely unthinkable, in Italy it happens almost every year. Some people may remember the
“Paris spring” of 1968, when in the French capital university students and (2)……….. workers all went on strike in a crisis which almost made the French republic collapse, but for many this is a long time ago now. But in Italy, however, the tradition has remained. It seems that almost every autumn there is a reason to protest. Most of the protests are national, like the current opposition to the (3)……… planned educational reforms, but there are also protests against things like local issues such as heating in the classes or treatment of individual students.
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Are all the students behind this? Well, it‟s difficult to say exactly. But what is certain, is that very few students object.
“I think it‟s (5)………. to show what we feel” says one high school student,
“The new school reform will be very bad for state schools.”
Other students are more skeptical. “I think it‟s great!” says one student, “It means we get a few days off school.” Another student is openly cynical: “All the people who are doing this... well, some of them are just (6)………., others are people who are already planning to become politicians. They want to start their career now.” Others say that the strike leaders are being (7)……… or used by groups from outside the schools.
Problems occurred recently when students from one school which was being occupied marched to another school which wasn‟t (8)………... The strikers stood outside the school and shouted and threw things at the windows. The non- striking students sat in their classrooms and did nothing, but their teachers went out and began to shout at the students from the striking school.
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The strange thing about this, however, is that despite the number of school hours lost to strikes, Italian students are certainly no less intelligent or knowledgeable than their European counterparts. Their (10)……… averages are the same as others, despite the fact that on average they spend up to 20% less time in the classroom – with strikes being only one of the many interruptions of the Italian school year.
Troublemakers or not, perhaps there is something to be learned from the Italian way of studying!
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Listen to the audio podcast about “How to Learn Many Languages” and then fill the blank by using the provided words.
quickly supporting dictionary embarrassment contestants particularly gradually conversation wanted different
I wanna talk about learning languages. I‟ve lived in many different countries, both in Western Europe, Middle East, and now here in Hong Kong. And during all of that time, I‟ve learned five or six (1)………. languages, to one degree or another. I love learning languages. Not only are they important when you move to a country, I just find them fascinating.
Before I came to Hong Kong, I lived in Barcelona Spain for ten years. And when I first arrived, the most important thing was being able to communicate with people locally. I don‟t attend classes. I don‟t think I‟m (2)………. good in classes. I prefer to learn by just talking to people, finding out what I need to say by looking at dictionaries and listening carefully.
Other things that helped me when I first moved to Spain, were watching the typical kinds of programs we see every day on channels around the world. For example the weather. This is great, because they always say the same things. So you
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Other types of program that helped me learned Spanish quickly were things like game shows, where the same thing happens. They have a catchphrase or a slogan that they repeat endlessly when (4)……….. win or when they are called to compete.
As well as that, I used to pick up the Spanish newspapers. First of all, I just accepted that there was no way I was going to understand anything but one or two words. But (5)………, I found that I learned lots of new things about this.
I was interested because I wanted to know what was happening in the country I lived in. But, I also knew that I could learn a lot of language this way. So I'd take a (6)……… with me sometimes, or I'd notice a word and I'd ask other people what …it meant.
Anyway, by far the best practice I ever had was just talking to people in the street, or in shops where I'd rehearse in my head what I (7)……… to say beforehand, before I went in. Usually, I'd make a right mess of it first of all, but, after you get over the (8)………., it‟s quite funny really. And people are very sympathetic and supporting in most cases.
It took me a long time to develop a good level of Spanish. I lived there for ten years, and I think I‟m very fluent now. But I think for the first two years I was there,