Listening

Marrying sounds and words

Connecting sounds with their corresponding words takes time and patience.

Individually words frequently differ in pronunciation when spoken; the way sounds and words connect contributes to fluency.

Use the subtitles or transcript to understand how words are spoken: pronunciation, stress and emphasis.

I’ve caught over 200 great white sharks, here's how

How do you catch a great white shark? Brett McBride, captain of the M/V Ocearch hoping to study the elusive Mediterranean great white explains how his team catch and tag sharks without harming them.

American research group Ocearch has more than 15 years’ experience in catching, tagging and tracking great white sharks all over the world, contributing to filling in the many gaps in knowledge about the ocean predator.

Little is known about the Mediterranean great white shark. Due to decades of overfishing, pollution and poaching in European waters, these sharks are now critically endangered, with huge consequences lower down the food chain.

Source

Length

00.00.59

Subtitles

21 November 2024

Date produced

Yes

L003

Reference

Task

Listen to the video, then answer the questions.

  • Watch the video (without the transcript or subtitles).

  • Observe how speakers stress words and fit them together to form sentences.

  • Note timestamp for unclear speech, confusing words or phrases or perhaps where the speaker is a little too fast.

  • Watch again (with transcript or subtitles) and check against your noted timestamp: is it any clearer? What is unclear: a word, phrase or the structure?

  • Answer the questions before expanding and viewing answers.

  • Any doubts, contact your mentor.

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  • Set refers to a group or collection of things that belong together or resemble one another or are usually found together.

    • I have brought a spare set of clothes.

    • We can order a replacement set for the printer.

  • Get means succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain.

  • Weight refers to responsibility.

  • The world will know means he is transparent in all he does and any mistakes are not hidden nor covered.