Listening 4: Listening for Numbers Scripts
Activity 4.1: Listening for Numbers Here’s the list: • 50 • 18 • 27 • 12 • 100 • 1963 (read as nineteen sixty-three) • 80 • 17 • 565
• 99 • 70 • 516 • 1,000 • 615 • 10,000
Activity 4.2: Listening for Numbers in Sentences A. People learning to drive can get a learner’s permit when they are sixteen. B. The first bill was passed in seventeen eighty-six, although it was later repealed. C. During the day, the temperature reached eighty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. D. The tortoise was ninety-five years old when it passed away from natural causes. E. Medical studies showed that eating twelve hundred calories a day was not advisable for long periods of time . F. Farmers believed their fields could produce as much as twenty percent more food with the new fertilizer. G. Sixty-seven percent of the people surveyed were in favor of the new transportation system. H. The city is located eight hundred and sixty kilometers from the coast. Activity 4.3: Listening for Numbers in Short Passages A. Now, in Europe, in the Middle Ages, before the invention of printing and the printing press, all books, all manuscripts, were handmade . And the material typically used for the pages was parchment, which is animal skin that’s stretched and dried under tension so it becomes really flat and can be written on. During the 1400s, when printing was being developed, paper became the predominant material for books in Europe, but prior to that, it was parchment . B. But the library closes at midnight, and I like to study all night before a test, you know, so everything’s fresh in my mind. I studied six straight hours the night before the mid-term exam. That’s why I expected to do so much better!
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