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‫In this Eilts listening lesson will take a look at an example question with audio and think about some

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‫of the strategies we can use to answer this question.

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‫You're going to understand and be able to practice some of the strategies as well as answering the questions

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‫that I give you.

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‫Before we move on, I think it's important to remember one thing, it's really vital that you look over

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‫the information given to you on your alt's listening test sheet that before the audio is played by doing

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‫this, you will be able to predict what type of audio you might hear.

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‫Therefore, there'll be less surprises when the audio is played.

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‫Let's take a look at our example question.

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‫Questions want to three choose the correct letter A, B or C now I'm going to circle some key words

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‫in the three questions here.

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‫Question number one, what is the main topic discussed?

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‫I'm going to circle main topic as that means I can focus my attention on the overall topic and context

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‫of the audio and the options for question one.

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‫I can see evolution and evolved mentioned once each.

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‫I'm starting to think that the audio might be around the topic of evolution.

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‫You can see how I'm preparing to listen to the audio.

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‫Question number two, in what ways have humans changed here?

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‫I'll circle the phrase humans changed as I can, then listen out for any information about how humans

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‫have changed and evolved over time.

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‫Question number three, why did humans teeth become smaller?

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‫Our circle, the phrase teeth becomes smaller.

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‫Now let's listen to our audio segment.

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‫Please remember that you should write your answers during the audio playback.

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‫Although still a topic of some debate, evolution is a commonly held theory around the world, the theory

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‫states that all living things adapt and change to suit their surroundings over time.

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‫So how have humans developed over our time on Earth?

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‫We believe there have been numerous progressions in our nature, both mentally and physically as well

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‫as socially.

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‫By that, we mean that humans have created rich, cohabiting lifestyles where living arrangements are

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‫shared with other humans.

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‫This is not common in all animals, as some living things prefer to live alone.

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‫One clear example of physical change is in our teeth and jaws.

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‫A very long time ago, humans had not created tools to cut up food.

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‫At that time, our teeth and jaws were larger to cope with bigger pieces of food as we developed tools

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‫to slice our food into smaller segments.

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‫Slowly, our mouths and teeth became smaller to suit our eating habits.

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‫So that brings us to the end of our audio segment, did you manage to get all the answers?

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‫Let's take a look at the answers now.

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‫So one C to C, three C now.

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‫We'll take a look at the audio sheet, the script that I read out, and we'll see where the answers

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‫in the audio were.

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‫Now, I'll say, my understanding and your understanding of synonyms will have been crucial in you being

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‫able to answer these questions correctly.

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‫And here we go.

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‫I've highlighted in bold where the answers were found and in blue, where synonyms played a very important

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‫role in finding our answers.

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‫So what is the main topic discussed?

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‫Let's take a look at the answer in the sheet.

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‫So how have humans developed over time on Earth?

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‫See how humans have evolved over time, evolved and developed are synonyms of sorts.

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‫And that helped me answer this question.

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‫So for number two, in what ways have humans changed?

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‫This was actually a strategy of eliminating the incorrect answers.

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‫A, they have become stronger, was not mentioned, and B they eat less food wasn't quite mentioned.

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‫It was actually said that the food piece is humans are eating now, have become smaller.

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‫So I know that these two answers and B are incorrect to check this.

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‫I look at say they have developed into correct social groups.

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‫Looking at the script, we can say in bold cohabiting lifestyles where living arrangements are shared

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‫with other humans, that matches very closely with social groups.

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‫And for number three, why did humans teeth become smaller, C, because humans started cutting their

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‫food and you can see in the script I read out the word slice, which again, is a synonym for cutting.

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‫I hope that you've enjoyed looking through the strategies for answering questions for the adults listening

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‫test.

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‫That brings us to the end of this lesson.