eng8-u4-listening· UNIT 4. MANNERS AND RULES· ~18 min

Unit 4 Listening: A talk on bad habits

Follow the narrator's definitions, habit examples, and reported effects.

The first activity introduces five clues: make excuses, delay, loss, skip, and lower. Track 12 then presents six habits and the narrator's personal conclusion. Keep a definition with its clue and keep each reported effect with its habit. The track reports claims about health, hearing, memory, IQ, and school attention; these are the narrator's or experts' statements in this listening text, not guaranteed outcomes for every teenager.

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Key terms

make excuses — In this lesson, give false reasons why you cannot do something.
procrastinate — to delay something until the last minute
reported claim — a statement made by a narrator or other source in the listening text
Track 12 listening map
PartListen forReported detail
Pre-listeningfive highlighted wordsthe meaning selected from its sentence clue
Habit sectionssix habitsone condition or effect linked to each habit
Conclusionnarrator's experiencebreaking the habits changed the narrator's life
✎Attribute a claim
  1. 1Hear: Experts believe that teenagers need nine hours of sleep per night.
  2. 2Identify: This is a view reported by experts in the track.
  3. 3Respond: According to the experts quoted by the narrator, teenagers need nine hours of sleep per night.
💡Match before choosing

Listen for the habit name first, then choose the detail the narrator connects to it.

Rules

  1. 1Use the surrounding sentence to choose a vocabulary meaning before listening.
  2. 2Keep each reported effect with the habit named by the narrator.
  3. 3Attribute health, hearing, memory, IQ, and school-attention claims to the narrator or experts in the track.
  4. 4A reported effect is not a guarantee that the same outcome will happen to every listener.
  5. 5Distinguish the narrator's personal conclusion from the six habit descriptions.

Practice

4 easy · 4 medium · 4 hard

Up to 10 random questions per test

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