Quiz UNITS 10-11

Week 14
Quiz Units 10 and 11. Grade: ________/50
Student´s name: Joel Daza Desolas Date: 19/02/2021
DIRECTIONS: Complete the two main activities in this quiz. You have to complete a paragraph
using technology collocations, then watch a video and write a video review, and later, read a
text and answer some questions. This quiz must be submitted by the end of the class. Friday,
February 19th, 2021. Remember to turn in your tasks on TIME in order to get your points.
ACTIVITY A
1. Read the following text and fill in the blanks using the following
verbs with the correct collocations. Make sure you put the verb into
the correct tense (17 points).
surf, check, make, click, download , visit, log on to, save,
make, do, make, write, make, do, upload, make, attend
My first time (1) did research was when I started my Master classes. I
remember one of the teachers said to the class “This is the most important
activity to complete throughout the semesters. You will have to (2) write a
report to turn in every fifteen days. You have been assigned a tutor. With him,
you have to (3) attend two meetings per month. In those meetings, you two
should discuss the topic of your research. From now on, you must (4) check
your emails daily as it would be the main mean of communication. You must
create a folder to (5) save all the files you need to complete this work.” She
also said that we should (6) make a decision on the topic or the issue we
wanted to start. Then, she took us to the Lab, and asked us to (7) log on to a
computer and start (8) surfing the net. We (9) visited some websites and
practiced how to (10) downloading a file and (11) uploading a document. I saw
everybody (12) click on different links. At the beginning I (13) made some
mistakes, but then I was (14) made progress. As we were (15) doing the
activities, I was able to (16) make some friends. At the end of the class, we
organized a list of everybody’s phone numbers to (17) make calls later on.
ACTIVITY B
2. Watch again the video about five ways to listen better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVmiYKRS0Zk&ab_channel=illogicalquestions
Now write down a review to convince or reject people from
watching it. Don’t forget to include the following information: the
name of the video and the host, the times you watched it, the positive or
negative things about it, and why you recommend watching or not.
Your review may have between 8-10 sentences. Write your review
on a google doc and share it with the teacher. (15 points: content x3,
grammar x3, organization x 3, spelling x 3, punctuation x3) any sign
of using translators will be penalized.
Rewiew:
Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better via TED
There are magnificent messages, but not magnificent like the ones in
this video that I just saw, I have only seen it once, but I feel that it has
marked me for life, here they expose about conscious listening and all
the inattention that we have when we are listening, if we only did
conscious listening, everything would be totally different.
We are currently exhausted from listening, but something that I liked is
that we have to learn to love sounds, listening is beautiful and
capturing more information will make life easier, something that should
be taken into account in school curricula, without a doubt I recommend
this video, listen to it consciously and it will mark your life.
Session Three: Wednesday, August 5th

ACTIVITY C
3. Reading Activity.(15 points)

Read the text below and answer the questions.
Losing the Art of Listening
Do you think you’re a good listener? Chances are you do. But studies show that most people
seriously overestimate their ability to listen. The truth is we are generally not good at listening, and
our listening comprehension declines as we age.
This was proven by Dr. Ralph Nicholas, a pioneer in the Scientific study of listening behavior. With
the help of school teachers in Minnesota, he conducted a simple experiment to test students’ listening
skills. He had teachers stop what they were doing mid-class, and then asked students to describe
what the teachers had been talking about. You might assume that older kids, with more developed
brains, would be better listeners. The results, however, showed otherwise: While 90 percent of first
and second-graders gave correct responses, this percentage dropped rapidly as the students got
older. A little under half of the junior high students could remember correctly, and only 25 percent of
high school students got the answer right.
So why aren’t we good at listening? One reason concerns the speed at which we think. The adult
brain can process up to around 400 words per minute, more than three times faster than the speed
an average person speaks. This means that we can easily think about something else while someone
is talking to us, allowing our minds to wander or get sidetracked. Thinking about barriers to effective
listening. The younger students in Dr. Nichols’s experiment were better listeners partly because their
brains were less developed, they lacked the extra brain power to be distracted.
Another factor that contributes to our poor listening is our ever-decreasing attention span. According
to a study conducted by Microsoft, the age of smartphones has had a negative impact here. In 2000,
around the time the mobile revolution began, the average human attention span was 12 seconds; by
2013, it had fallen to 8 seconds. Even a goldfish, with an average attention span of 9 seconds can
hold a thought for longer.
Our mobile devices also provide constant distractions, which can be very disruptive to listening. Test
results have shown that being interrupted by a cell phone message (or even just expecting a
message) lowers listening comprehension by 20 percent. Similar results were observed even before
the age of digital technology. According to a 1987 study, people could remember only about 10
percent of a face-to-face conversation following a brief distraction.
Interruptions and other distractions, whether digital or more traditional, can cause a dramatic decline
in listening ability, but they don’t have to. More and more people now realize that listening is a skill
that can be developed through practice. Learning to observe a speaker’s body language and
emotions, for example, can improve our active listening. Even the simple act of note-taking or making
eye contact can help us stay focused while listening.
Many schools and businesses now provide courses in effective listening, as it has been proven to
enhance teamwork and build rapport. Research also suggests that people who are good listeners
make better leaders. A study in the Academy of Management Journal indicated that employees who
don’t believe their boss are listening to them are less likely to offer helpful suggestions and new ideas
The fact is that listening plays a central role in everything we do, both socially and professionally, so
the rewards of effective listening are many. As Dr. Nichols once said, “The most basic of all human
needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to
them.”
1. Which sentence is the author most likely to agree with?

A. There are many techniques we can use to help us stay focused while listening, but
the best way to improve our listening skills is to limit our use of modern
technology.
B. Effective listening is something we all do automatically, although most of us need

to be taught proper tools and techniques in order to be good at it.
C. The mobile revolution has had a negative impact on our ability to listen, but there
are various techniques we can use to improve our listening skills.
2. Write one of the words in blue in the reading next to the corresponding definition.
A. To make something better; improve. Enhance
B. Causing trouble and therefore stopping an activity from continuing as usual.
Distrucptive
C. One who is first or among the earliest to do something. Pioneer
D. To judge too highly or favorably. Overstimate
E. A good relationship or understanding among a group of people. Rapport
3. Now write your own sentence using each of the words in blue from the text.
3.1 We can enhance our listening if we pay more attention
3.2 Ignoring a person when they speak can be disruptive to them
3.3 we must be pioneers by setting examples of the art of listening
3.4 we cannot overestimate that by listening well we can change society
3.5 we must make a rapport between speaking and listening
4. Record a 3-minute video of yourself answering the following question. (13 points, 5
x content, 4 pronunciation, and 4x quality of the audio) include information from
the reading and the video in your answer, (Short or long videos will be penalized).
What behavior mentioned in the passage are you most guilty of? What can you do to
change this?
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Week 14

Quiz Units 10 and 11. Grade: ________/50

Student´s name: Joel Daza Desolas Date: 19/02/2021

Session Three: Wednesday, August 5th

3. Reading Activity.(15 points)

1. Which sentence is the author most likely to agree with?

B. Effective listening is something we all do automatically, although most of us need

3.2 Ignoring a person when they speak can be disruptive to them

3.3 we must be pioneers by setting examples of the art of listening

3.4 we cannot overestimate that by listening well we can change society

3.5 we must make a rapport between speaking and listening

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