NCERT Solutions For Class 11 English – Listening Skills
Listening:
At the XI class level, the students are expected to perform fairly well in all the language skills including Listening
and Speaking.
A student of XI must develop competency of listening to and comprehending live as well as recorded oral presentations on a variety of topics.
Moreover, a student must have the competency of listening to oral instructions in order to perform a given task.
(e.g., using a map to arrive at a destination, following directions given orally, etc.)
The skills of Listening will be taught and tested through specially prepared recorded material. Where recording facilities are not available or not functional, the teacher will read the text to students.
For testing purposes, the examiner will read aloud a passage based on a relevant theme or a short story.
- The passage may be factual or discursive.
- The length of the passage should be around 350 words.
The examinees are expected to complete the listening comprehension tasks in a separate sheet while listening
to the teacher. This implies that the sheet listing comprehension tasks will be provided to students first and
then the teacher will start oral presentation.
The following types of tasks may be set for evaluation purposes:
- Gap-filling
- Multiple choice test
- True or false type
- Short-Answer Questions.
There may be ten different questions for half a mark each.
Solved Examples:
Example 1:
Listen to the following tape script/oral presentation carefully and complete the listening comprehension tasks provided to you on a separate sheet:
The Daintree is one of the world s oldest rainforests and a ribbon of extravagant greenery along Australia s north eastern sea board. By comparison with other rainforests, this one is tiny“by one estimate 1200 square kilometres. Size, however, belies its significance. Here is a Lost World, which, through a peculiar twist of geological events,
has survived for about 130 million years. As scientists probe its mysteries, they discover it has much to reveal“
about the past and, perhaps more importantly, the future.
About 130 million years ago, fossil records show, an event altered the appearance of our planet: plants began to flower. And in 1970, at the prophetically named Noah Creek, near Daintree, two botanists discovered live
specimens of those earliest flowering plants, angiosperms, which they quickly dubbed green dinosaurs .
The Daintree s ark of live cargo miraculously survived ice ages, volcanoes and oceanic floods. Back in the 1970s, long before these wet tropics received World Heritage protection, a real-estate agent subdivided half of the
lowland rainforest, marketing it as a sort of magic garden. Buyers discovered a different reality. Between
December and April, curtains of deluge permanently hang over the forest, and in the sauna-like air mould
grows on everything. Cuts and scratches get inflected easily and dim light and dampness prevail.
I can see why the tribals call the forest Marrdja, which roughly, translates as The Boss : In the past, the forest provided the tribals with everything they needed.
Rainforests are the lungs of the planet, absorbing carbon-dioxide and converting it back into oxygen, says Nigel Stork, leader of the Rainforest Co-operative Research Centre, a joint venture of 12 organizations that fund the crane. Initial estimates from Stork s research show the Daintree could be worth around one billion dollars a year, on top of the half-billion or so already generated by tourism. That is, it would cost that much if the ecological job of the forest were performed by an outside contractor. Putting a monetary value on goods and services delivered by Nature a breath of fresh air, a sip of clear water“shows that conservation and sustainability of natural resources are a sound business proposition.
Listening Comprehension Tasks:
Do as directed:
1. The Daintree in Australia is one of the world s oldest …………………………………………………… (Fill in the blank)
2. Though a tiny area of 1200 square kilometres, size belies its significance. (Say whether True!False )
3. The Lost World in Daintree forest has survived ……………………. million years.
(a) 100
(b) 110
(c) 120
(d) 130 (Choose the correct answer)
4. Which event altered the appearance of the planet? (Give a short answer)
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
5. Give the name of the plant the. botanists discovered in Noah Creek in 1970.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
6. The botanists called the plants green dinosaurs because
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………(Complete the sentence)
7. In 1970s, a real estate agent marketed the lowland rainforest as:
(a) an expanse of wet tropics. ( )
(b) a house of deluge. ( )
(c) a sort of magic garden. ( )
(d) a heaven of tourists. ( ) (Tick the most appropriate answer)
8. What do the tribals call the forest? Why? (Supply short answer)
(i)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
(ii)…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
9. Rainforests are the hearts of the planet. (Say whether True I False )
10. The ecological job performed by the forest is worth……………………………………………..dollars(Fill in the blank)
Answers:
- rainforests
- True
- (d) 130
- plants began to flower
- Angiosperms
- they were the live specimens of the earliest flowering plants (namely, angiosperms)
- (c) a sort of magic garden
- (i) Marrdja i.e., The Boss
(ii) it supplied all their needs. - False
- One billion (dollars).
Example 2:
Listen to the following tape script/oral presentation carefully and complete the listening comprehension tasks provided to you on a separate sheet.
Tangier s old town in Morocco is a difficult place for a foreigner. Everything seems strange: The souks, or markets are crowded with men in hoods and long flowing dresses. My buddy and I were new to North Africa and our first reaction was paranoia (fear or suspicion). After a few days, both of us were really uncomfortable: people either treated us as potential sources of income or ignored us completely.
Quite by accident we discovered the Almohad Coffee Shop. Over the next few weeks the Almohad became our refuge.
One memorable morning a large man marched up to our table and babbled something in Arabic. I called the waiter over to translate. He has challenged you to a game of parcheesi . He pointed at a ludo-board. We were ushered into seats opposite each other. The parcheesi was played in teams, so we had to home all eight of our counters in order to win. It was the best of three games.
We won the first game and they won the second. In the third, decisive game, when they looked set to win, I sent one of their counters back to its den and the player couldn’t seem to get a six. He eventually did, but by that time both his buddy and mine were home. I was in the home slot and he was gaining fast.
I ended up one place from home and the tension in the coffee shop was electric. The audience yelled three . It was a smart call, as three bounced me out of home. I required either a one or a two to win. After I got four threes in a row my buddy and I suddenly realized why all these grown up men played ludo. It had nothing to do with sending counters home. It was about controlling our minds and influencing the dice. This was more than a test of psychic power: We were playing for our very souls.
I threw 17 threes in succession. By then the hair on the back of my neck was stiff with fright. Our opponent was one throw aw&y from home. I tossed the dice. It spun on its corner for an indecently long time and landed with one facing up.
The room erupted. We were carried shoulder high round the coffee shop, then outside into the souk. Everyone yelling, but the only word I caught was parcheesi. We spent another month in Tangier. Strangers invited us to meals. Kids in the streets waggled their thumbs in the air and shouted parcheesi. We Arabs like people with strong minds, commented a waiter.
Listening Comprehension Tasks
Do as directed:
1. In Tangier s the markets are called………………………………………………..(Fill in the blank)
2. How did Moroccans treat the speaker and his friend? (Give a short answer)
Ans……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. Parcheesi is an Arabic name for………………………………………………..(Fill in the blank)
4. How was the Parcheesi contest set? (Give short answer)
Ans……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
5. In order to win a game, each team had to home
(a) four counters
(b) six counters
(c) eight counters
(d) twelve counters. (Choose the correct answer)
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
6. For a counter to come out of the den, one needs a throw of
(a) one
(b) two
(c) four
(d) six (Choose the correct answer)
7. What did the tension make the speaker realize about grown up men playing ludo?
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….(Give a short answer)
8. For the speaker it was a contest of mental skills. (Say whether True or False )
9. The hair on the back of my neck was stiff with
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..(Fill in the blank)
10. The speaker and his friend were carried shoulder high because they had shown strong minds.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………(Say whether True or False )
Answers:
- souks
- ignored/regarded a source of income
- Ludo
- team game : winner best of three
- (c) eight counters
- (d) six.
- It needed control on mind and influence on dice
- False
- fear/fright
- True.
Example 3:
Listen carefully. Complete the listening comprehension tasks provided to you on separate sheet:
In the course of a few decades, what was once an obscure allergic syndrome has emerged as one of the most vexing health problems. The number of asthma sufferers has jumped by over 60 per cent since the early 1980s,
and the death toll is also increasing. Children are particularly vulnerable, the more acute cases regularly having
to monitor their airflow rates in litres per minutes, while the elders look for ways to swap information and get moral support. Throughout the developed and developing world, people are suffering asthmatic reactions to a range of allergens that once caused little’, trouble. And though scientists are learning more about the disease itself, its increasing incidence is still largely a mystery.
The dynamics of asthma are no mystery. The trouble starts when the immune system becomes sensitised to some allergen, usually through heavy exposure in early life, and starts treating it as a threat. Whenever the irritant enters the body, the immune system s B cells start churning out anti-body molecules known as IgE. The antibodies attach themselves to most cells, which respond by spewing out histamine and other inflammatory chemicals. If this cascade is confined to the upper airways, the victim may suffer no more than a runny, itchy nose.
The real trouble starts when the reaction extends down into the lungs. When small airways called bronchioles get doused with histamine, they swell and fill with mucus. And as those passages narrow, the consequence can range from a tightness in the chest to suffocation. It is like holding your nose and breathing through a straw in your mouth.
Almost anything can act as an irritant. Toddlers who live with at least one smoker are nearly three times as likely to wheeze as kids in smoke free homes, but non-smokers children also suffer.
Dust mites, those tiny creatures that thrive in bedding, upholstery and carpets, spike their droppings with a highly allergenic protein. So do cockroaches. Molds and pollens cause a lot of asthma in humid conditions. For some people, it could be a reaction to their pets.
With the right medicines, however, even a severe asthmatic can make the condition manageable. But the greater challenge is to prevent it.
Listening Comprehension Tasks:
Do as directed:
1. Asthma has assured…………………………………………………………………….proportions now. (Fill in the blank)
2. Who are most vulnerable to asthma attacks? ……………………………………………………….(Give a short answer)
3. The allergens leading to asthmatic reactions:
(a) are fairly active now
(b) caused little trouble earlier
(c) are a result of lifestyle
(d) caused severe problems earlier. (Choose the correct answer)
Ans……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
4. How does the immune system become sensitised to some allergen? (Give a short answer)
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
5. One has a runny, itchy nose when inflammatory chemicals are confined to the upper airways. (Say whether
True or False )
6. The greater challenge is to……………………………………………………………..asthma. (Fill in the blank)
7. Swollen bronchioles filled with mucus result in…………………………………………..(Complete the sentence)
8. Toddlers with one smoking person around are likely to wheeze……………………………………….
times more than those living in smoke free homes.
(a) two
(b) three
(c) four
(d) six (Choose the correct answer)
9. What are dust mites?……………………………………………………………..(Give a short answer)
10. Molds and pollens cause a lot of asthma in
(a) dry conditions
(b) chilly weather
(c) humid conditions
(d) breezy/stormy weather (Choose the best answer)
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Answers:
- serious
- children
- (b) caused little trouble earlier.
- through heavy exposure early in life.
- true
- prevent
- tightness in chest or suffocation
- three
- tiny creatures thriving in bedding, upholstery and carpets.
- humid conditions.
Example 4:
Listen to the following carefully. Complete the listening Comprehension Tasks in the sheet provided to you as you listen.
Family tension can be contagious. You may call it second hand stress. We all know when we re experiencing pressure first hand. But we may not be aware how we are passing our tension on to people we love;
and vice versa.
The fallout from just one persons stress can have a domino effect, says Ronald G. Nathan, a psychologist
in New York.
Like the primary kind, secondary stress can upset the harmony of the family through conflict between
husband and wife, brother and sister, and parent and child. But just recognizing how one man s or child s anxiety can affect the family as a whole is a big step towards breathing the cycle.
None of us intends to upset our family but it happens despite our best efforts. A family s rhythm is easily
disrupted by the byproducts of stress: mood swings, changes in communication including less eye contact or a different tone of voice.
Second hand stress is triggered not just by another s behaviour, but also when the over burdened family members emotional or household workload shifts to others.
It s not the after-school activities or pushing for good marks that leaves kids an edge stressed parents are creating stressed kids,ƒ insists Georgia Witkin, a professor of psychiatry in New York.
Because everyone reacts to pressure differently, we may not recognize the signs and so fail to respond in a
tension free way. On a basic level, stress is the body s response to anything we perceive as dangerous,
demanding or demoralizing. It triggers us either to fight (attack whoever is in our path or defend ourselves) flee (withdraw physically) or withdraw emotionally by denying the problem and not taking any action. Adult stress
seems easy to spot. Signs of kids anxiety may be less predictable.
Listening Comprehension Tasks:
Do as directed:
1. By passing on oui tension to others of the family we make it………………………………….(Fill in the blank)
2. A situation in which one event causes a series of similar events to happen one after the other is known as …………………………………………………………………………………..(Fill in the blank)
3. Secondary stress can upset the disharmony of family through conflicts…………………………..(Say whether True or False )
4. A big step towards breaking the cycle of stress is
(a) recognising an individual s anxiety
(b) recognising the effect of one s anxiety on others
(c) understanding the causes of one s anxiety
(d) taking preventive steps against anxiety. (Choose the correct answer)
Ans……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
5. Mood swings, changes in communication including less eye contact or a different tone of voice are
(a) causes of stress
(b) busters of stress
(c) products of stress
(d) preventive of stress. (Choose the most appropriate one)
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
6. None of us intends to upset our family but it happens despite our best efforts.
(Say whether True or False )
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
7. What two factors trigger second hand stress ? (Give short answer)
Ans.
- ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
- ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
8. After school activities and pushing for good marks cause stress to kids. Which is another stress causing factor? (Give short answer)
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
9. Why is it not easy to recognise the signs of stress?
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
10. Faced by stress most individuals either tend to……………..or……………..(Fill in the blank)
Answers:
- Contagious
- domino effect
- False
- (b) recognising the effect of one’s anxiety on others.
- (c) products of stress
- True
- (i) another’s behaviour
(ii) shifting of emotional/household workload to others. - stressed parents
- Everyone reacts to pressure differently
- fight (or) flee.
Example 5:
Listen to the following carefully. Complete the listening Comprehension Tasks in the sheet provided to you as you listen:
Colour is the key to good nutrition. As a physician who has studied nutrition and cancer prevention for more
than 20 years, I believe our careless diet accounts for most common diseases, including heart disease,
cancer and “diabesity—an epidemic of obesity and diabetes.”
But here’s a shocker: Eating fruits and vegetables everyday won’t guarantee you’re getting enough essential nutrients. Iceberg lettuce and your favourite french fries, for instance, are hardly nutrients. A big clue: they lack colour. Produce that comes in vivid hues contain an arsenal of disease-fighting chemicals called phytonutrients.
To get enough of these vital ingredients, just add a single serving (a piece of fruit, cut of juice, one to two cups of vegetables) from each of these seven colour families to your usual whole grains, protein and healthy fats.
It couldn’t be simpler.
Patients tell me this colour-coded plan doesn’t feel like a diet—yet you’ll probably drop a few kilos as fruits and vegetables naturally edge out higher-calorie breads and snacks. You’ll also up your intake of vitamins, minerals and fibre.
Red/Purple foods contain- anthocyanine, powerful antioxidants that may cut your risk of heart disease and stroke by inhibiting clot formation, Cherries brinjal, plum, prunes, raspberries, red apples, red cabbage and strawberries are some of them.
Red coloured tomato or any tomato-based food-even sauces or ketch-up-provides a hefty dose of lycopene, a cancer fighting anti-oxidant. Guava, pink grape fruit and watermelon may also be tried.
The beta carotene in orange foods boosts eye and skin health and may decrease risk for certain cancers. These are: apricots, carrots, mango, pumpkin and sweet potato.
Oranges, papaya, peaches and pine apples are orange/yellow. These are rich in beta cryptoxanthin, an oxidant that protects cells from damage.
The yellow/green provide more protection for the eyes. These foods contain lutein and zeaxanthin. May help fight cataracts and muscular degeneration. These include mustard or turnip greens, cucumbers (with skin) green beans/peas, lettuce and spinach.
Green foods pack natural chemicals called isothiocyanates, such as sulforaphane, and indoles, all of which
stimulate production of cancer fighting liver enzymes. Broccoli or broccoli sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower
belong to it.
Garlic and onions contain allicin, a tumour fighter. Mushrooms have other disease-battling chemicals.
These veggies are rich in flavonoids, which protect against cell damage: asparagus, celery, leeks.
Listening Comprehension Tasks:
Do as directed:
1. How can we crack nature’s secret nutritional code?…………………………………………(Give short answer)
2. ‘Photonutrients’ is the name of
(a) organic nutrients
(b) essential nutrients
(c) disease-preventing cells
(d) disease-fighting chemicals. (Choose the correct answer)
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
3. Eating fruits and vegetables everyday won’t guarantee you’re getting enough essential nutrients. (Say whether ‘True’ or ‘False’)
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
4. The speaker recommends a single serving from each of the…………………………………………colour families. (Fill in the blank)
5. The basic diet contains whole grains, …………………………………………and healthy fats. (Fill in the blank)
6. Why does the colour-coded plan help to drop a few kilos? (Give short answer)
………………………………………………………………………..
7. The colour coded plan sounds a perfect diet. (Say whether ‘True’ or ‘False’)
Ans……………………………………………………………………………………………………
8. According to Dr David Herber most common diseases are caused by
(a) lack of balanced diet
(b) our excessive intake
(c) our careless diet
(d) malnutrition and hunger. (Choose the best answer)
9. Allicin, a tumour fighter is found in ……………………………….. (Complete the sentence)
10. The beta carotene in orange foods boosts ……………………………….. (Complete the sentence)
Answers
- colour is the key
- (d) disease-fighting chemicals
- True
- seven
- protein
- fruit and vegetables edge out higher calorie breads and snacks.
- False
- (c) Our careless diet
- Garlic and Onion.
- eye and skin health.
Example 6:
Listen carefully. Complete the listening Comprehension Tasks in the sheet provided to you as you listen:
Young Ted Hook had already spent seven years at the Astronomical Institute and graduated with credit.
His greatest desire was to work at the big observatory on the moon and look at the stars and the earth from above. He was declared unfit for moon service on medical grounds. He had a defective mitral valve. There was a grave danger to his life on the moon. His heart being weak, it would start beating very fast on account of the high speed of the moon shuttle. His father turned down Ted’s request to speak to some big man on his behalf because there was no place for adventure in the 21st century.
Ted wandered on the Dump of the Astronomical Institute. It was a sort of museum of rejected space-journey material. He found a new emergency space-suit which bore the crest of the Moon service. The idea te get to the Moon in spite of Dad s advice and doctor s discouragement grew strong again.
The Moon Shuttle was to leave from the Atlantic Platform at 9.23 p.m. The last few checks were going on.
Ted took nearly three hours to reach the platform. His suit helped him escape the notice of security men at the entrance. They looked at the crest and let him pass. His chief worry now was to lessen the weight of ship s cargo
by 130 pounds (lbs), because his own weight was that much. His worry was to find a hiding place. He made his way to the lower decks where he found several emergency escape capsules. He decided to strap himself into one of them.
The oxygen tanks in the escape capsule solved the problem of weight. He let off 130 pounds of oxygen. He checked the outflow of oxygen and was satisfied. He strapped himself down and waited for pain and death with eyes closed. The engines began to work and the rocket roared through thin air at thirty thousand miles an hour. Ted tried to be brave but he felt utterly cold because of evaporating oxygen. Ultimately, he lost consciousness. The alarm gave a warning that an unknown passenger was in the shuttle. His ice-cold body was found and he was saved.
When Ted opened his eyes, he found himself in a hospital ward on the moon. The doctor declared that he was quite safe. Ted had survived as he had left the oxygen tank s contrail loose. As soon as the shuttle took off, cold oxygen was leaked out. Teds body temperature fell by twenty degrees and his heart beat also slowed down to twenty per cent of normal. So, his heart did not suffer the strain caused by high speed of the rocket. By his bold adventure Ted had proved that men with weak hearts could also travel to the moon. The people who heard of his journey to the moon said that the age of adventure was not dead yet. Ted was happy as he had realized his ambition to see the stars from the Moon.
Listening Comprehension Tasks
Do as directed:
1. What was Ted Hooks greatest desire? (Give short answer)
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. Ted was considered fit for moon-service on medical grounds. (Say whether True or False )
3. The Dump of the Astronomical Institute was a sort of …………………………………………… of rejected space journey material. (Fill in the blank)
4. Ted found in the dump a new emergency space-suit bearing
(a) the name of an astronaut
(b) the insignia of the Space station
(c) the crest of the Moon service
(d) the crest of the Astronomical Institute (Choose the correct answer)
Ans……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
5. What helped Ted escape the notice of security men? (Give short answer)
6. They looked at the crest and let him pass. (Say whether True or False )
7. Ted let off 130 pounds of oxygen. It was done
(a) to spread more oxygen
(b) to avoid detection
(c) to moist the escape capsule
(d) to slow down breathing. (Choose the correct answer)
8. What did people say about Ted s journey to the moon? (Give short answer)
9. The rocket roared through thin air at
(a) twenty thousand miles an hour
(b) twenty-five thousand miles an hour
(c) thirty thousand miles an hour
(d) thirty-five thousand miles an hour (Choose the most appropriate answer)
Ans……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
10. Ted had proved with his example that…………………………(Complete the sentence)
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Answers
- to work at Moon observatory/look at stars and earth from Moon.
- false
- museum
- (c) the crest of the Moon Service
- his space suit with crest of Moon Service
- True
- (b) to avoid detection
- the age of adventure was not dead yet
- (c) thirty thousand miles an hour
- men with weak hearts could also travel to the moon.
Example 7:
Listen carefully. Complete the Listening comprehension Tasks in the sheet provided to you as you listen:
Jaisalmer is a town in the Thar desert of Rajasthan. In summer here the sun is scorchingly hot but in winter it mellows down. A camel ride is a must for a tourist to Jaisalmer.
Jaisalmer, the oasis of Jaisal, in the past lay on a caravan route. The camels and their riders quenched their thirst here after a long, tortuous journey through an arid desert without any water or a place of rest. It was the halting place for the camel convoy going to the court of Agra or Delhi. It was with the wealth of the travellers that this small town blossomed. The pride of the city are the various havelis, the magnificent mansions, with their most beautiful arched windows, balconies and stone screens with wonderful lattice work. It is said that Patwon Ki Haweli here has been the most photographed haveli in the whole of Rajasthan.
Sam Sand Dunes are 42 kilometres from Jaisalmer. On the way to these dunes one can have a peep into the life of desert settlements and their inhabitants their daily chores, trudge for water and fuel, herds of sheep on thorny bush, mud houses, sheltered behind thorn enclosures, and much more. The sand Dunes are quite popular locale for Hindi feature films.
The Desert National Park is 40 kms from Jaisalmer. Dunes do not form the major part of the Park; they occupy less than twenty per cent of the area. The park mainly consists of craggy rocks, salt lake bottoms and fixed dunes. All the wild animals and birds of the desert can be seen here. The pride of the place is the great Indian bustard . This tall heavy bird, which was once thought to be extinct, can be seen in a large number here.
Listening Comprehension Tasks
1. Jaisalmer has been an …………………………… in the Thar desert. (Fill in the blank)
2. In summer the sun shines……………………………in the Thar desert.
(a) softly
(b) tolerantly
(c) scorchingly
(d) brightly (Choose the correct answer)
3. What is a must for a tourist at Jaisalmer? (Give short answer)
Ans……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
4. Jaisalmer is called an oasis because
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….(Complete the sentence)
5. How did money come to Jaisalmer?
Ans……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..(Give short answer)
6. The pride of the city are
(a) the desert hotels
(b) the wild animals
(c) the wandering singers
(d) the various havelis (Choose the correct answer)
7. Which is the most photographed haveli in Rajasthan. (Give short answer)
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
8. The …………………………………………. are a popular locale for feature films. (Fill in the blanks)
9. The Desert National Park has rough rocks, salt lake bottoms and fixed dunes. (Say whether True or False)
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
10. The great Indian bustard is now extinct. (Say whether True or False )
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Answers
- oasis
- scorchingly
- a camel ride
- the camel and their riders quenched their thirst here after difficult journey in dry desert.
- through the travellers
- the various havelis
- Patwon ki Haveli.
- sand dunes
- True
- False.
Example 8:
Listen to the following oral presentation carefully. Complete the listening Comprehension Tasks in the sheet provided to you as you listen:
What can help prevent stroke, heart disease and some cancers? What can lift depression, ease arthritis pain and increase both the length and quality of life“to name just a few of its benefits?
If packed into a pill , sums up Dr Robert Butler, former director of America s National Institute on Aging, it would be the single most widely prescribed and beneficial, medicine. Best of all, it is free and available to everyone.
The answer is the E word: exercise. But you don t have to change into gym shorts or, heaven forbid, Lycra and sweat for an hour. Instead, the US Surgeon Generals report Physical Activity and Health offers this simple exercise prescription: people who aren’t engaging in regular exercise can reap significant health benefits if they accumulate 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity most days of the week.
Today millions expend much less energy than did previous generations, perhaps as much as a few hundred calories per day less. All the advances ƒ that make our lives easier like e-commerce and automatic doors contribute to the current epidemic of obesity and related diseases.
Experts say that if you expend just ten extra calories a day by being more active, over a year you can lose half a kilo mostly fat. And if you burn 150 extra calories a day the equivalent of a 30 minute walk in a year that’s five kilos. If you also eat 150 calories less, you could lose an additional five kilos.
The benefits of moderate exercise are amazing. It can help people with arthritis. Exercise can reduce pain by keeping joints flexible and the muscles around the joint strong. In diabetics, the hormone insulin does not properly regulate glucose levels in the blood when people exercise, the body fuels the activity by taking glucose out of their blood to use for energy.
Exercise reduces blood pressure and can help raise the level of good HDL cholesterol, while lowering bad cholesterol when combined with dietary changes.
Remember: for every one per cent reduction in blood cholesterol, the occurrence of coronary heart disease is reduced by two per cent. Moreover, people who exercise one hour per day cut their risk for stroke nearly in half.
While sedentary people may assume that working out is about looking good, habitual exercisers know that it is largely about feeling good. Physical activity exerts a feel good effect that can work as a powerful treatment for depression.
Listening Comprehension Tasks:
Do as directed:
1. Exercise and controlled diet can help in preventing many diseases. (Say whether True or False )
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
2. What are the two unique factors in favour of exercise? (Give a short answer)
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Compared to previous generations, modem generations
(a) lead more sedentary life
(b) expend much less energy
(c) consume more junk food
(d) are slimmer and more active. (Choose the odd one)
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
4. What have the advances in modern life contributed to? (Give a short answer)
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
5. Advances like e-commerce and automatic doors have made modern life………………..
(Fill in the blank)
6. According to experts, expending just ten extra calories a day through physical activity
will result in losing …………………………………………… fat over the year.
(a) five kilo
(b) two kilo
(c) one kilo
(d) half a kilo. (Choose the correct answer)
7. What is the effect of a 30-minute walk“per day/year? (Give a short answer)
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
8. In order to shed additional 5 kg fat one should……………………………………..calories less. (Fill in the blank)
9. Moderate exercise can reduce pain in arthritis? (Say whether True or False )
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
10. The speaker advocates sweating in gym or swimming in Lycra for at least an hour. (Say whether True or False )
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Answers:
- True
- It is free and available to everyone
- (d) are slimmer and more active
- obesity and related diseases
- easier
- (d) half a kilo
- bums extra 150 calories per day : reduces 5 kg extra fat over the year
- eat 150.
- True
- False.
Example 9:
Listen to the following tape script/or.al presentation carefully. Complete the Listening Comprehension Tasks in the sheet provided to you as you listen:
Social competence is a skill we often take for granted. We put our children in school so they can learn how to read, write and calculate. But we spend little or no time teaching them social skills.
Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner lists interpersonal intelligence as one of eight basic human aptitudes. Just as some children are naturally gifted in maths, others are gifted at relating to people. At the other extreme are children who seem to lack social antennas. But social competence can be improved“and it s an effort worth making. According to Marion Porath, a Canadian professor of educational psychology, studies have linked social competence to academic achievement.
Social aptitude can make or break careers and relationships in the adult world. Poor social skills put you at a greater disadvantage than poor spelling, says Shirley Vandersteen, a senior psychologist.
Let s begin with the basic social skills. Saying hello, please and thank you, and answering a question all fall into this category. A child must answer politely, not in monosyllables like fine or excellent but in complete sentences. Another basic : how to shake hands. People are judged on their handshake. Show your child how long, and how firmy to shake a hand, and then practise together.
Then there s the art of speaking in turn. This skill is not instinctive. Parents should give explicit instructions on how to do it. For example: Listening means keeping your eyes on the speaker and your hands quiet………wait until the speaker has finished before you start talking.
A shy child stumbles socially. Nagging or forcing the child to perform in high pressure situation won t work. Don t expose the child to an embarrassing situation. Letting the shy child retreat from social interaction isn’t the answer either. The best approach is the same type of graduated exposure that helps people overcome aeroplane or spider phobias. By proceeding in small, safe increments, the parent can help the child build up to the hard stuff, such as speaking at a party full of strangers. Also helpful is teaching your child how to ease herself into a group at play. To a shy child, the internet may seem a dream come true a chance to connect socially without the risk of rejection. But it can also delay the acquisition of true social confidence.
We rarely give children the opportunities to practise for big social challenges. Enter role-playing. Advise children about facing the situation, adding humour whenever possible. Children can also benefit from practising ordinary conversation, and the dinner table is a good place to it. Start with an amusing anecdote. This will inspire the child to relate his anecdote. Telling jokes should be encouraged. Grooming and attire count too. Let the child be in step with his age. Let him not be put to a social disadvantage. The best thing a parent can do is to teach by example. A more socially confident child will emerge by watching the parent s interactions on the phone, at the park, in the school compound, at the shopkeepers etc. A child can build up his skills gradually.
Listening Comprehension Tasks:
Do as directed:
1. Why do generally children lack social competence? (Give a short answer)
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. Interpersonal intelligence is one of……………………………basic human aptitudes, says Howard Gardner.
(Fill in the blank)
3. Social Competence
(a) is inherited from parents.
(b) is a gift from God.
(c) can be improved.
(d) is not worth wasting effort on. (Choose the correct answer)
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
4. Studies have linked social competence to academic achievement. (Say whether True or False)
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
5. What is the importance of social aptitude in the adult world? (Give a short answer)
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
6. Poor social skills puts one to as great a disadvantage as
(a) poot attire.
(b) frail body.
(c) irritable temper.
(d) poor spelling. (Choose the correct answer)
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
7. The speaker approves of answering politely in monosyllables. (Say whether True or False )
Ans……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
8. Learning how to shake hands is important because………………………………………….(Complete the sentence)
9. What is the art of speaking in turn? (Give a short answer)
10. The internet may seem a dream come true to the shy child. However the speaker thinks that ……………………………………………………(Complete the sentence)
Additional Questions
11. How can we prepare children for big social challenges? (Answer in points only)
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
12. How can the dinner table prove a good place for conversation? (Give a short answer)
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
13. Cladding a child like his peers puts him in a social disadvantage. (Say whether True or False )
Ans……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
14. Who can be the best teachers for social skills? (Give a brief answer)
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
15. A child becomes more socially confident by…………………………………………………………………………………..(Complete the sentence)
Answers:
- They are not taught or trained in social skills
- eight
- (c) can be improved
- True
- It can make or break careers and relationships
- (d) poor spelling
- False
- People are judged on their handshake
- Listen attentively. Start talking after the other finishes.
- It can delay the acquisition of true social confidence.
- (i) Role playing
(ii) what to expect in a situation
(iii) practising conversation
(iv) relating anecdotes. - Inspiring the child to talk freely : relate funny anecdotes and jokes
- False
- Parents
- Watching the interactions of parents in various situations.
Example 10:
(Solved)
Listen to the following tape script/oral presentation carefully. Complete the Listening Comprehension Tasks in the sheet provided to you as you listen:
The role of Western values in contemporary Indian society is a subject on which I have pondered over years.
I come from a company that is built on strong values. In dealing with the employees, investors customers and vendors of our company who come from across the globe I have come to appreciate several aspects of the Wests value system.
Indian culture has deep-rooted family values“parents make enormous sacrifices for their children; children
consider it their duty to take care of aged parents; and marriage is held to be a sacred union with husband
and wife bonded for life. Unfortunately, our attitude towards the community is very different from our attitude
towards the family.
Although we keep our homes spotlessly clean, when we go out we do not think twice before littering. On the other hand, parks in the West are generally free of litter and their streets are clean.
We are also apathetic about community matters. We see serious problems around us but behave as if they are someone else s responsibility. In the West, individuals understand that they have to be responsible to their community. They care for their society and make sacrifices for it.
Another attribute we must learn from the West is accountability. There, you are held responsible for what you do irrespective of your position. In India, the more important you are, the less answerable you become.
Where as dignity of labour is an integral part of the West s value system, in India we revere only supposedly intellectual work.
In the West, people do not let personal relations interfere with their professional dealings. They do not hesitate to chastize a colleague for incompetence, even if he is a friend. In India, we tend to view even work interactions from a personal perspective. We are also the most thin-skinned society in the world we see insults where none is meant.
We extend this lack of professionalism to our sense of punctuality. We do not respect the other person s time. Indian Standard Time always runs late, and deadlines are typically not met.
Western parents teach their young children to think for themselves. Hence they grow up to be strong, confident adults. In India we suffer from feudal thinking. Even bright people prefer to be told by their bosses what to do.
The Western value system teaches respect for contractual obligations. In India we consider it crucial to fulfil
personal vows as with family or friends.
We are all aware of our rights as citizens. But we often fail to acknowledge the duty that accompanies every right.
Let us work towards a society where we would do unto others as we would have them do unto us and make our country great.
Listening Comprehension Tasks:
Do as directed:
1. The speaker appreciates several aspects of the world s value system. (Say whether True or False)
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. Indian culture has
(a) deep rooted community values
(b) deep rooted family values
(c) strong national unity
(d) strong message of peace and brotherhood. (Choose the correct answer)
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. Indians attitude to the community is similar to their attitude towards the family. (Say whether True or False )
Ans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
4. The parks in the West are ……………………………………of litter. (Fill in the blank)
5. The Westerners understand their responsibility towards………………………………………………and make sacrifices
for it. (Fill in the blank)
6. How is accountability ignored in India? (Give short answer)
Ans……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
7. In India people view work-interactions from
(a) stiff official manner
(b) professional attitude
(c) personal perspective
(d) business point of view (Choose the correct answer)
Ans……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
8. People in India are called the most thin skinned society in the world because……………………………………………………………………………………………………..(Complete the sentence)
9. How does our lack of professionalism affect our appointments? (Give a short answer)
Ans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
10. Which is more important in India?
(a) Contractual obligation, or
(b) personal vow. (Choose the correct alternative)
Ans……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Answers:
- True
- deep rooted family values
- false
- free
- community/society
- The more important a person, the less accountable he becomes
- (c) personal perspective
- they see insults where none is meant
- we lack punctuality and hence usually late
- personal vow.
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