Listening 6: Recognizing Tone of Voice Scripts
Activity 6.2: Understanding Feelings—Looking for a Part-Time Job Student: What’s, uh, prep work? Manager:
You prepare food for the cooks—you know, like cutting up vegetables for soup or cleaning greens for salads . Oh… That doesn’t sound… I mean, being a waiter, I get to see a lot of the professors, like, in a different light. Wejoke around a little, you k n ow… In the classroom they always have to be pretty formal, but… Well, the money’s no different, since we pay students the same amount for any of the jobs here in food service—so it’s up to you. Oh, man, I always thought that sacrificing for my art—well, that’d mean working long hours as a musician . . . for, like, no money. I didn’t think it’d mean peeling carrots . . . Let me see…I’m offering you something that has the hours you want—it’s right here on campus—and you make as much money as you did being a waiter. Quite a sacrifice.
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Activity 6.3: Understanding Feelings—Sports and Studying Professor: Hi, Samantha . How did your track meet go? Student: Great! I placed first in one race and third in another! Professor: Congratulations! You must practice a lot… Student:
Three times a week preseason, but now that we’re competing every weekend, we practice six days a week from three-thirty ’til five .
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Athletics place a heavy demand on your time, don’t they?
Yeah, but I really love competing, so…
You know, I played soccer in college, and my biggest challenge—and I didn’t always succeed— was getting my studying in during soccer season. Are you having a similar…? No, I-I really do make time to study. And I actually study more for this class than I do for all my other classes. But I didn’t see the grade I expected on my mid-term exam, which is why I came by. Well you didn’t do badly on the exam, but I agree it did not reflect your potential. I say this because your work on the lab project was exemplary. I was so impressed with the way you handled the microscope and the samples of onion cells, and with how carefully you observed, and diagrammed, and interpreted each stage of cell division. And I don’t think you could have done that if you hadn’t read and understood the chapter. I mean, it seemed like you really had a good understanding of it.
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I thought so, too, but I missed some questions about cell division on the exam.
So, what happened?
I just sorta blanked out, I guess. I had a hard time remembering details. It was so frustrating!
All right, let’s back up. You say you studied. Where? At home?
At my kitchen table, actually.
And that’s supposed to be a quiet environment?
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