Riddles
What has to be broken before you can use it?
Egg
Tactful
Consider other people’s feelings when speaking / talking
What is Signposting?
The words and phrases that guide us while listening
Text : Genetic plays a part in determining lateralisation, but environmental factors have an impact too. In 2004, Rogers used observation to test the advantages of brain bias in chicks.
Question : Lateralisation is determined by both genetic and ........ influences.
Environmental
What question can you never answer yes to?
Are you sleeping? Are you asleep?
The way of experiencing or adapting new ideas, new things in real life situations (ex: learning our native - first language)
Exposure
Scanning technique?
Reading quickly to find specific information
Speaking question :
Some people don't like to travel abroad. Why?
Personal opinion!
There's a one-storey house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
There aren’t any stairs, it's a one-storey house.
Another word for skyscrapers, tall buildings?
High-rises
We have to be careful with the prepositions and direction phrases in this type of listening?
Labeling a map
Listening.
Try to predict what is the main topic of listening?
Memory / improving memory
A man dies of old age on his 25th birthday. How is this possible?
He was born on February 29
Our professor ..... a lecture on Climate change yesterday.
Gave / delivered
There are two types of charts or graphs which show statistics in writing. What are these types?
Dynamic charts - show changes
Static charts - no changes, just standing rates
Text : While farmers must squeeze more out of the land, they must also address the necessity of reducing their impact on the soil and atmosphere. All this means rethinking how agriculture is practiced.
Question : Farmers need to reduce the harm they do to the environment. (YES/NO/NOTGIVEN)
Yes
Two fathers and two sons are in a car, but there are only three people in the car. How?
They are grandfather, father and son.
Visiting a place casually, often on foot
Have a look round
What is the difference between matching headings and matching information?
Matching headings - we work with general meaning and choose a name for paragraph
Matching information - we look for detail, certain information among the paragraphs
In some countries, students have to learn two or more languages at school. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?
Write an introduction!!!
Personal