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N Scheme Syllabus - Communication Skill Practical Experiment 3 (Listening Skill)

Introductory video: 

The following video throws light on the difference between Indian English and other foreign accents. It is not for writing in record note but for just understanding Indian English.

Experiment 3
Exercise 1

Listen to the following Indian English audio and fill in the blanks:

Questions:

1. They strive to work to their ____________.

2. I learnt every youth wants to be ____________.

3. Being like everybody else is ____________.

4. The battle means, you don't need to take a ____________.

5.Third one is hard work with ____________.

Answers: 

1. They strive to work to their potentials.

2. I learnt every youth wants to be unique.

3. Being like everybody else is convenient.

4. The battle means, you don't need to take a gun.

5.Third one is hard work with devotion.

Exercise 2
Listen to the following British English audio and fill in the blanks:

Questions:

1. Fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with _____________.

2. I decided that I was a ______________.

3. Why has the world become such an ____________ one?

4. I am from ____________.

5. I should be able to make ___________ about my own body.

Answers:

1. Fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating.

2. I decided that I was a feminist.

3. Why has the world become such an uncomfortable one?

4. I am from Britain.

5. I should be able to make decisions about my own body.

Exercise 3
Listen to the following American English audio and fill in the blanks:

Questions:

1. Some children get a weekly ____________.

2. A budget demands choices between __________ and saving.

3. It is not a good idea to pay your child for _________ around the home.

4. Costly goals require __________.

5. __________ works by paying interest on interest.

Answers:

1. Some children get a weekly allowance.

2. A budget demands choices between spending and saving.

3. It is not a good idea to pay your child for work around the home.

4. Costly goals require sacrifice.

5. Compounding works by paying interest on interest. 

NOTE: The students should be practiced in all the three: Indian English, British English and American English but they may write any two exercises with passage and answers in the record note as per the instructions given in the syllabus. The transcripts in the video may be used for writing the passage in the record note. But during exam, only audio should be played and transcripts should not be viewable.

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N Scheme Syllabus - Communication Skill Practical Experiment 2 (Listening Skill)

a) Listen to the following short story and answer the questions:

Questions:

1. What is the name of the King?
2. What does the word “commotion” mean?
3. Who destroyed the fields in the village?
4. Why was a cow given to each family?
5.  What do you mean by the phrase “dumb idea”?
6. What did Tanali Raman give to the cat when it became plump?
7. Why did the king give a gift to Tenali Raman?
8. Who used the milk given to Raman’s family?
9. What shows Tenali Raman a wise one?
10. How did the king  find out the reason for Raman’s cat not drinking milk?

Answers:

1. The name of the king is Krishna devaraya.
2. Commotion means disturbed or agitated movements.
3. The rats destroyed the fields in the village.
4. To feed the cat given to each family, the king offered a cow along with the cat.
5. Dumb idea means “stupid idea”.
6. Tanali Raman gave very hot milk to the cat when it became plump.
7. Tenali Raman explained that the king should take care of people, not cats. So milk should be given to people, not to cats. Secondly, only hungry cats will hunt for rats.
8. Raman used the milk for his family and for preparing milk sweets and food.
9. The way Tenali Raman escapes from punishment and gets a gift proves him a wise one.
10. The king examined the lean cat and found blisters in its tongue. Thus he found out the reason.

(Note: The teacher should not show the transcript to the students at the time of exam.

Students can write any five questions and answers in the record note)

b) Listen to the following short story and answer the questions:

Questions:

1. When did the pandit come to Akbar’s court?
2. What are the two options given by the pandit?
3. Why did Birbal choose the single difficult question?
4. What is the question asked by the pandit?
5. How did Birbal defeat the pandit?

Answers:

1. The pandit came in the evening when Akbar was to wind up his day’s official work.
2. Hundred easy questions and a single difficult question were the two options given by the pandit.
3. Birbal was wise and the emperor was also not in a mood to sit through 100 questions. So he chose this option.
4. “which came first – the hen or the egg?” is the question asked by the pandit.
5. Birbal gave a wittly reply that he had agreed to answer only one question.

N Scheme Syllabus - Communication Skill Practical Experiment 1 (Listening Skill)

Important points to remember while listening and taking notes:

• Listen to the audio more than once, if possible first time with transcript to understand better.
• Look for key ideas conveyed: What? When? Where? Who? How many? Why?
• Avoid writing subjects, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, articles, conjunctions, if not necessary
• Use hyphen throughout the notes, in between the key points
• Use abbreviations, numbers and symbols as much as possible to keep brevity
• Give a suitable title by finding out central idea of the passage
• Take notes with pencil  fast ,first as a rough draft and then make changes and prepare a fair draft of the notes

A typical well-prepared notes= expandable into a similar passage covering all important aspects

a) Listen to the following speech and take down notes:

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,    From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

Answer:

    I Have a Dream! (by Martin Luther King)

Demonstration for freedom -100 yrs before, emancipation proclamation – Negro slaves burnt by injustice – as a joyous daybreak to end captivity -  still not free – after 100 years, still segregation and discrimination – living on lonely island of poverty – dream: nation to realise  all  = - on Red Hills of Georgia, sons of slaves and slave owners as brothers – State of Mississipi, from sweltering injustice to freedom and justice – my 4 children, judged, not by colour of skin but by character – in Alabama, against words of interposition and nullification, black boys & girls with the white as sisters & brothers – all valley exalted, hill low, rough plain, crooked straight-going to south with this hope – hewing out from mountain of despair a stone of hope- from discords to brotherhood –work, pray, struggle, go jail, stand together for freedom –America to be a great nation- freedom from hilltops of Hemsphire and New York – from Pennsylvania – from snowcapped colorado – from curvaceous California.

b) Listen to the following TV News and take down notes:

Answer:

Impact of Covid 19 on India

Total recovery cases 9 lakh – 30000 recoveries on the 4^th day – ↓ fatality rate  2.28%, lowest in the world – Govt: aggressive testing & effective containment strategies - >5 lakh test per day for 2 days – 26^th this month  5L 15 k, 27^th 5L 28k samples tested – worst affected states: Maharashtra: 8706 discharged- 57.84 % recovery - 7924 new cases, 227deaths,– 3.62% fatality.rate –TN: 6993 cases, 77d, 5723  → - 220760 total cases – Delhi: 88.68% recovery – 613 cases – 26 died – 1497 recovered – lockdown status: Kerala, a committee in Thiruvananthapuram  – CM Pinarayi Vijayan, relaxation to follow on committee report –long term measures taken – Shillong: 72 hour lockdown –from yesterday – 30 localities as containment zones.

 

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