In psychology / the feeling of complete and energized focus on an activity / is called flow. // People who enter a state of flow / lose their sense of time / and have a feeling of great satisfaction . // They become completely involved in an activity for its own sake / rather than for what may result from the activity / such as money or prestige . // Contrary to expectation / flow usually happens not during relaxing moments of leisure and entertainment / but when we are actively involved in a difficult enterprise / in a task that stretches our mental or physical abilities. 4. Review your two recordings—did the meaning seem clearer the second time? Most listeners would think so. 5. Mark the lecture script where you think short (/) and long (//) pauses should occur. I think this will help you get a picture of what your textbook is describing I had a friend who taught in the physics department Professor Jones he retired last year Anyway I remember this was a few years ago I remember passing by a classroom early one morning just as he was leaving and he looked terrible his clothes were all rumpled and he looked like he hadn’t slept all night And I asked if he was OK I was surprised when he said that he never felt better that he was totally happy He had spent the entire night in the classroom working on a mathematics puzzle He didn’t stop to eat dinner he didn’t stop to sleep or even rest He was that involved in solving the puzzle And it didn’t even have anything to do with his teaching or research he had just come across this puzzle accidentally I think in a mathematics journal and it just really interested him so he worked furiously all night and covered the blackboards in the classroom with equations and numbers and never realized that time was passing by 6. Now listen to the lecture to see if the speaker indeed paused in those places. Reflection Think about what people do in your native language when they’re trying to come up with the right words to say. Do people typically remain silent at those times, or do they use certain sounds, words, or phrases (interjections) to indicate that they’re thinking? If so, what do they use?
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