Student+listening+questions

Please post the link to your listening resourse and add your questions underneath.

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Questions:

1) What examples of mania are given by Jay Walker?

2)What is the 'new' mania he is talking about?

3) How many people are currently studying English?

4) How does he support his main idea of this 'mania'? What example or evidence does he provide?

5) According to Walker, which country will be the new number one English speaking country?

6) What is the speaker's main idea?

7) What are other universal languages?

8) English is the universal language for what?

2)Posted by Crystal_Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak.html Questions: 1. What does she want to express by using the 3 children as examples? 2. The local artist said that they have gotten some best ideas from the program of Kis Design Glass because_ 3. Regimes become oppressive from history when_ 4. What's even worse than restriction is_ 5. What is the goal for kids when they grow up? 6. What is the meaning of "you must lend an ear today, we are the leaders of tomorrow"?

3)Posted by Kevin Li **(E7R4):** ** Saul Griffith's kites tap wind energy ** http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/saul_griffith_on_kites_as_the_future_of_renewable_energy.html  Questions:  1. One thousand years ago, how did Chinese military use kites?  2. In Miles Loyd seminal paper, what contents were completely ignored?  3. What is the second-largest renewable resource after solar?  4. We still have an --, and now we have a-- as well.  5. In next 30 or 40 years, we have to make- of new clean energy.  6. In a refrigerator factory, churning out airplanes for World War II, they were making -  a year.

4)Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks) []  posted by Erin & Jim **(E7R4)**  Short answer  1. To find out how to create “TED talks”, what are 3 things that speaker looks at?  2. Why we should choose wise topic?  3. The lecture gives 3 example to describe the rules to obey when making “TED talks”, list one of them  Sentence completion  4. Slides are okay, but it is better if…………………………………..  5. There is a connection between……….and………that talks get on the website  6. The “TED pad” is a matrix of 100 specifically selected, highly curetted sentence that……………………..

5) Arianna Huffington: How to succeed? Get more sleep (Source: www.ted.com) []  Posted by Jeffery & Lucy **(E7R4)**  Questions:  __Short answer__  1. Why does not a high IQ person mean a good leader?  2. What could we get from multiple crises?  3. What will those people do actually when they think they are so incredibly busy and productive?  __Sentence completion__  1. Getting enough sleep is the way to............................  2. When she began the journey of rediscovering the value of sleep, she studies and met with......................  3. The speaker urges people to....................and.................

** 6)Photos that changed the world ** ** [] **  Posted by Ivy & Sabina **(E7R4)**  Questions:  ** Short answer: **  1.Since the beginning of photography, what have images done in people?  2.What dose the speaker think that is far worse?  3.What are the two things that images transcend?  ** Sentence completion **  1.In fact, some images are so well-known that you might even recognize them in........... .  2.In the 1960s and 1970s, the Vietnam war was basically shown in America's living rooms.......... .  3.Some very important images are deemed too.........or..........for us to see them.

=** 7)Jonathan Drori: Why we're storing billions of seeds **= = [] = = posted by Hans, Tina and Amy __(E7R4)__ =
 * Short answer: **

What is very important for human beings to live in the earth? Why plants are under threat? If we have to built a seed bank, what do we have to decide?

The way we save plants is __.__ __ Three billionth seed is now stored ____.__ __ The seeds have been damaged in some habitats, like _____.
 * Sentence completion:**

__8) Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system__
http://www.ted.com/talks/birke_baehr_what_s_wrong_with_our_food_system.html Posted by B & Jankin **(E7R4)** Question: Short answer
 * 1) What is the dark side of the industrialized food system which the speaker mentions to?
 * 2) What are two examples given by the speaker?
 * 3) What do the genetically modified seeds lead to?
 * 4) What are the two harmful chemicals which the speaker mention to?

Sentence Completion 1. More harmful chemical are sprayed on fruits and vegetables to kill..........and ........... 2. When it rains, these chemicals......... into the ground or ..........into our waterways. 3. People can make different choice by ............ from .........or ........... 4. If people are at the grocery store, they should ......... ,.........., .......... and............

9)Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work []  posted by TONY(E7R7)  Short answer  1.what's the main idea of this article?  2.Marsh gives four observations,what are they?  3.Which three aspects did Marsh give to describe life?  4.What incident changed Marsh's concept in the past?

sentence completion 1.With first observation ,the first step to solve this problem is .............. 2.Child care facilities in workplace is ...........and............  3.people usually say they will change their life after ........................................  4.Being more balanced doesn't mean ..................