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.

How immersion in nature can make you feel calmer

Research shows that immersion in nature has a positive effect on the mind and body. It can lower the stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline and help us feel calm. We look at ways to access nature more easily as a way to boost your mood.

Source

BBC

Length

00.01.59

Subtitles

5 December 2024

Date produced

Yes

L005

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.

  • Awe means a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.

  • Soothing means having a gently calming effect or reducing pain or discomfort.

  • Stint means a period of time spent doing something:

    • I don’t have much direct experience but I did a stint in the army.

    • I did my stint in marketing and never again!

  • Tap into:

    • It would be could to tap into the African market.

    • I hate to say but we should tap into their insecurities and sell more support services.

  • Melissa Hogenboom uses trek to imply a long journey to find, or go to, somewhere natural.

  • Conjure up can mean make (something) appear unexpectedly or seemingly from nowhere, call (an image) to the mind or (of a word, sound, smell, etc.) cause someone to think of (something):

    • Despite the long meeting, we couldn’t conjured up a suitable plan.

    • Investors failed to conjure up the funds in time.

  • Meantime = in the intervening period of time:

    • The re-design process should take two weeks but, in the meantime, we should start setting up appointments with each client to discuss the upgrade.